News - West Africa

Nine African tech businesses are among the 117 that have been confirmed to be participating in the Y Combinator accelerator...

MAGIC Fund, a seed-stage venture capital fund, has launched a $30 million Fund II raise to expand its global founders-backing-founders...

Lidya, a Nigerian fintech and lending startup, said today that it has raised $8.3 million in a pre-Series B funding...

TeamApt, a Nigerian fintech startup that delivers financial services to Africa's underserved mass market, has closed its Series B funding...

Green Gold Farms, a Ghana-based agribusiness startup, has raised $1.6 million from Absa Bank Ghana, Diaspora Capital, Channel Ventures, EPMT...

Invest In Africa (IIA), an organization dedicated to helping local small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa expand and...

FairMoney, a Nigerian fintech startup, has raised $42 million in a Series B funding round. Tiger Global, a US hedge...

PayHippo, a Nigerian fintech startup, has acquired $1 million in pre-seed funding for its large-scale expansion. The company wants to...

Zeepay, a  Ghanaian fintech, has completed a USD7.9 million Series A funding round, to support its activities, the funding is a mix...

MDaaS Global, a healthtech startup that is developing and operating a network of contemporary, tech-enabled diagnostic centers across Nigeria, has...

Jetstream Africa, a Ghanaian logistics startup, has raised $3 million in debt and equity to support its aim of enabling...

Ghana launched its first fully digital national Housing and Population Census (PHC) in an effort to determine the exact population...