News - West Africa

Touch and Pay, a fintech company based in Nigeria has been named the winner of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2022. ...

Moove, a Nigerian mobility fintech startup, has secured US$16.8 million in funding from Emso Asset Management to expand its UK...

Bumpa, a social commerce startup based in Nigeria, has announced a $4 million seed funding round to help it broaden...

The Nigeria Startup Act, formerly known as the Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB), has been passed into law.  President Muhammadu Buhari...

In order to compete for the grand prize of US$50,000 and entry into the Ecobank Fintech Challenge Fellowship program, six...

Maplerad, a Nigerian startup that provides Banking as a Service (BaaS), has secured $6 million in a seed funding round.  Along...

Singapore's Pillow has raised $18 million in Series A funding led by Accel, Quona Capital, Elevation Capital, and Jump Capital. ...

Lifestores Healthcare, a health technology startup based in Nigeria, has successfully completed a 3 Million Pre-Series A funding round.  Health54 took...

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...