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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
Africa NewsAugust 10, 2024 Kenya’s BuuPass to Offer Travel Insurance with mTek. Kenyan startups BuuPass, a transportation platform, and mTek, a leading byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsAugust 10, 2024 Applications Now Open for the Second Cohort of Open Startup’s Grow Program. Open Startup has officially launched the second cohort of its investment byFatima Oladunni
Fintech News NigeriaAugust 8, 2024 Sendsprint Acquires Nobel Financial for US Expansion. Sendsprint, a rapidly growing international payment and remittance startup, has byBolu Babalola
Africa Fintech NewsAugust 8, 2024 Egyptian Fintech Lucky ONE Raises $3 Million Convertible Debt Round. Lucky ONE, an Egyptian fintech company, has successfully secured $3 million in a byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaAugust 8, 2024 Call for Applications: GET Accelerator Seeks Innovative Nigerian Startups. Nigerian startups are encouraged to apply for the third edition of the Grooming byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsAugust 7, 2024 Egyptian Startup Qardy Raises Millions in Pre-Seed Funding. Egyptian fintech startup, Qardy, has announced the successful closing of a byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaAugust 4, 2024 Spiro Expands into Ogun State with Electric Bike Launch. Spiro, an African electric vehicle (EV) company, has officially launched its byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsAugust 4, 2024 Egypt’s MNT-Halan expands into Turkey with Tam Finans acquisition. Egyptian fintech company MNT-Halan has taken a significant step in its byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsAugust 2, 2024 Egyptian Startup Cartona Raises $8.1M Series A Extension. Egyptian startup Cartona, a B2B platform focused on digitizing and empowering byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsAugust 2, 2024 Jobtech Alliance backs 8 African tech startups in the second cohort. The Jobtech Alliance, a pioneering initiative co-led by Mercy Corps and BFA byFatima Oladunni
