News - West Africa

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...

Bitmama, a Nigerian blockchain payments firm, has announced it has raised an additional $1.65 million in pre-seed funding, ten months...

NowNow Digital Systems, a Nigerian fintech startup, has secured $13M in its seed round to increase financial inclusion throughout Africa...

Nigeria-based gaming DAO Metaverse Magna (MVM) raised $3.2 million in a seed sale token offering with a $30 million fully...

Duplo, a B2B payment platform, has secured a $4.3M seed round. Liquid2 Ventures, Soma Capital, Tribe Capital, Commerce Ventures, Basecamp...

Anchor, a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform based in Nigeria that allows for the easy creation of financial products across Africa, has...

Grey, a fintech company founded by two Nigerians to make it easier for Africans to send and receive foreign funds,...