Africa News

MTN Uganda has launched a $270,000 Start-up Fund and has granted access to third-parties with iits Mobile Money Access Programming...

Egyptian app-based mass transit start-up, Swvl has announced its Series B round fund. The start-up didn’t disclose the exact fund...

South African venture capital firm, Knife Capital has announced the 12 companies that will be participating in its fourth cohort...

In order to increase financial inclusion and tax compliance in Zambia --- MTN Mobile Money, Barclays Bank Zambia Plc and...

SonoCare, Nigerian health start-up for females has raised US$250,000 in funding from Gray Matters Capital through GMC coLABS to scale...

As part of its annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa launched its first series of hackathons...

Civic Hive has announced the second edition of its Civic Hive Fellowship Programme. The fellowship program was officially launched in...

Fixxr, a mobile car repair platform has won R500, 000 from IBM after pitching at the just concluded four-week bootcamp...

Ugandan based micro-pension service and e-wallet platform, Four One Financial Services wins the Best Catapulter Award from Catapult: Inclusion Africa....

Cellulant, Pan-African payments company based in Kenya, has built Africa’s first Augmented Reality (AR) powered try-on experiences by Facebook Messenger....

16 engineers across Africa have been shortlisted for the fifth edition of for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation in...

South Africa’s Kalon Venture Partners and Mauritius-based Compass Venture Capital have invested US$500 000 (R7-million) in FinChatBot, a financial services...