P1 Ventures Announces $50M Institutional Fund Close. P1 Ventures – the early-stage, Pan-African VC – has completed the final byFatima OladunniFebruary 21, 2025
MANSA Raises $10M to Transform Cross-Border Payments with Stablecoins. MANSA, a global fintech innovator transforming cross-border payments, today byBolu BabalolaFebruary 21, 2025
Thirteen Winners Announced at Inaugural Africa Tech Summit Awards in Nairobi. Thirteen winners have been announced at the inaugural Africa Tech Summit Awards byFatima OladunniFebruary 20, 2025
Engineer Turned Entrepreneur: Ope Kufoniyi’s Path to Solving Identity Fraud. Opeyemi Kufoniyi is the Director of Product at Smile ID, Africa’s leading byNgozi EmekarohaFebruary 20, 2025
Africa NewsJune 17, 2024 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship Lands in Egypt. The Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship has expanded to Egypt following byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJune 15, 2024 Egyptian podcast producer, Potcast Productions, fuels growth with pre-seed funding round. Egypt-based podcast production company Potcast Productions has secured an byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJune 15, 2024 TymeBank seeks $150 million to join the unicorn club. South African fintech startup TymeBank is on the brink of a $150 million Series byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaJune 13, 2024 From Orile, Iganmu to Kyoto Japan, How Regxta won the fourth edition of the pitch2win competition. It was an electrifying atmosphere yesterday at the Muson Center, where Rukayat byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsJune 11, 2024 Egyptian fintech startup Sahl secures $6 million to become a one-stop shop for financial services. Salh, a fintech startup based in Cairo, has secured $6 million in combined seed byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsJune 7, 2024 LAfricaMobile raises $4.6M series A to scale across francophone Africa. Ivory Coast-based cloud communication startup LAfricaMobile has successfully byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJune 5, 2024 Egyptian startup Birdnest takes flight with pre-Series A funding. Egypt-based proptech startup Birdnest has closed an undisclosed pre-Series A byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsJune 2, 2024 Africa’s new accelerator, Accelerate Africa, selects its inaugural class of 10 promising ventures. Four months post-launch, Accelerate Africa, a budding accelerator program with byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 16 African Fintech Startups Selected for Visa’s Fintech Accelerator Program. Visa has announced the African startups chosen to participate in the second byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 Safaricom picks 9 Kenyan startups for M-Pesa Spark Accelerator. Nine early-stage Kenyan startups have been chosen to participate in the Spark byFatima Oladunni
