News - West Africa

Nigerian fintech startup Hizo has closed a $100,000 friends-and-family seed financing round. The funding will help scale its platform designed...

Nigerian HR‑tech startup PaidHR has officially closed a $1.8 million seed funding round, led by Accion Venture Lab and joined...

Egypt‑based DisrupTech Ventures has made its first pan‑African investment by backing Nigerian agri‑fintech startup Winich Farms as part of its...

Senegalese e-health startup KERA Health Platforms has raised US$10 million in funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member...

Nigerian clean energy startup Salpha Energy has secured a $1.3 million investment from All On, a Shell-backed impact investor, to...

CutStruct, a Lagos-based construction-tech startup, has raised US $1.5 million in a seed funding round led by CRE Venture Capital, with additional...

Carrot, a fintech startup based in Nigeria, has secured US $4.2 million in seed funding to scale its innovative asset-backed lending service...

Aruwa Capital Management, a female-founded private equity firm based in Lagos, has successfully raised $35 million in the second close...

 Ghanaian retail-tech startup Tendo Technologies has announced its strategic acquisition of fellow Ghanaian company Shopa in a cash-and-stock deal aimed...

Ghanaian clean-tech startup Kofa has raised $8 million through a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to expand its battery-swapping network, aiming...

Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup OmniRetail has raised $20 million in Series A funding, marking a major milestone in its mission...

MEST Africa, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has announced the selection of 12 promising startups for the second cohort...