News - East Africa

The first "SESA Call for Entrepreneurs" has been made public by the Smart Energy Solutions for Africa (SESA) consortium project,...

Safaricom, a Kenyan mobile network provider, has become the first private operator in Ethiopia, one of the major telecoms markets...

Kenya's tourism-focused startup studio Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV) has received $1 million in funding from Klister Credit Corp., a Canadian...

Turaco, an insurtech that is fostering mass market insurance acceptance, has announced the completion of a $10 million Series A...

With the support of the Government of Rwanda, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Mastercard Foundation have launched a transformational...

Bruce Nsereko-Lule has joined the team as a General Partner on a full-time basis with a base in Nairobi, according...

The Zanzibar government and Wasoko, an African e-commerce startup that uses cutting-edge technology to change the unorganized retail supply chain,...

Pezesha, an embedded finance fintech startup based in Kenya, has raised US$11 million in pre-Series A funding to help it...

Phyllis Migwi will now be responsible for managing Microsoft's operations in Kenya in her new role as Country Manager.  Phyllis...

The Roam Rapid is an all-electric mass transit bus that was just introduced by the Kenyan startup Roam, formerly known...

iProcure, a business-to-business (B2B) agritech startup based in Kenya, has just raised $10.2 million in Series B funding to expand...

Lami Technologies, an insurtech startup based in Kenya, has successfully raised 3.7 million dollars in seed funding in order to...