Moniepoint Lent ₦1 Trillion Using Payment Data as Gospel. Two Massive Defaults Just Exposed the Limits of Knowing Everything Except What Happens Next. Nigeria's fastest-growing fintech disbursed ₦1 trillion to 70,000 businesses in byBolu BabalolaMarch 6, 2026
Francophone Africa’s VC Awakening: How AfDB’s €6.5M Saviu Fund Is Shifting the Power Map West and Central For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town byFatima OladunniMarch 6, 2026
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Big Tech Must Pay Up: ECOWAS’ Emerging Strategy to Force Fair Compensation for African News in the AI Training Era While OpenAI pays Western publishers $1-5M annually for training data, African byBolu BabalolaMarch 4, 2026
Africa News StartupNovember 1, 2024 Moroccan Logistics Startup Colis Raises $300K Pre-Seed Funding Colis, a Moroccan cross-border logistics startup, has recently raised $300,000 byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 28, 2024 Egyptian Mobility Startup Rabbit Mobility Raises $1.3M Egyptian micromobility startup Rabbit Mobility has successfully raised a US$1 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsOctober 28, 2024 South Africa VisionAI Secures Funding for AI Expansion. South Africa’s VisionAI, a pioneering company in artificial intelligence and byBolu Babalola
Africa Events NewsOctober 25, 2024 AI-Enabled Transformation Takes Center Stage at DataFestAfrica 2024: Africa’s Largest Data Conference. DataFestAfrica 2024, the third annual edition of Nigeria’s largest data byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsOctober 21, 2024 SA’s MindCiti unveils new AI-powered interview coaching feature. South African startup MindCiti has expanded its platform with the launch of an byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupOctober 18, 2024 Kenyan direct air capture startup Octavia Carbon closes $5m seed round to remove more carbon out of Africa. Kenyan direct air capture (DAC) startup Octavia Carbon has successfully closed a byFausat Abiola
Africa News StartupOctober 15, 2024 African startups invited to apply for Latitude59 pitch competition in Estonia African startups are invited to apply for the Latitude59 Pitch Competition, a byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 15, 2024 Mdundo, a Kenyan music service, expands reach and projects $1 million in royalties for 2025. Mdundo, a leading music streaming platform based in Kenya, has announced plans byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 15, 2024 Endeavor South Africa has successfully closed the first round of its Harvest Fund III Endeavor South Africa has secured $11 million in the first close of its ZAR500 byFausat Abiola
Africa News StartupOctober 13, 2024 South African fintech company Scale raises $700,000 pre seed. Scale, a South African fintech startup, has successfully raised $700,000 in byFausat Abiola
