News - West Africa

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

The Nigerian data and insights startup Stears disclosed that it had secured $3.3 million from Serena Williams' investment firm, Serena...

Numida, a fintech firm in Uganda, has raised US$12.3 million in pre-Series A debt and equity capital to help it...

The first-ever sustainability-focused cohort of the MEST Express accelerator has chosen six impact-driven Ghanaian startups to participate, and they will...

Spleet, a property technology firm based in Nigeria, has successfully raised a seed round worth $2.6 million in order to...

Farmerline Group has announced the second close of a pre-series A investment round with an additional US$ 1.5 million investment...

Vendease, a Y Combinator-backed digital platform that enables restaurants in Africa to make supply purchases, access banking services, and run...

Julaya, an Ivory Coast-based company that specializes in payments, has raised an extra US$5 million in a pre-Series A round...

SecondSTAX, a platform that links institutional investors, has received pre-seed funding of US$1.6 million from LoftyInc Capital, Orbit54, and STEMeIn. ...

Remedial Health has raised $4.4 million in seed funding, a health-tech startup that creates solutions to improve the effectiveness of...

Yellow Card, a pan-African cryptocurrency exchange, has announced the completion of a $40 million Series B funding round led by...

Kippa, a platform for financial management and payments for small enterprises in Nigeria, announced that it had raised $8.4 million...