Startups On Our Radar spotlights African startups solving African challenges with innovation. In our previous edition , we featured seven game-changin
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Finding reliable domestic help in Nigeria is often difficult. It is a trust-lacking, informal industry where users rely on word-of-mouth referrals to
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Micheal Orji, a construction engineer in Lagos, is used to receiving sizable payments from clients. He gets alerts on his phone after the money has la
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Valuations are important for tech startups; they determine whether investors can earn a return on their capital and whether a startup can raise more m
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Send App, a cross-border remittance product of Africa’s largest payments startup Flutterwave, has launched a physical Naira card for Nigerians returni
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In October 2025, nearly a decade after it launched from a cramped “shop office” in Lagos, Nairabox, a Nigerian digital ticketing and lifestyle platfor
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Stitch, one of South Africa’s largest payments fintech startups, has partnered with Capitec Bank, the country’s largest retail bank by customer base,
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Safaricom is working to keep its mobile money platform M-PESA at the core of Kenya’s digital payments even as more transactions move from consumer app
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Until Jumia introduced its first nationwide sales campaign after it launched in 2012, Black Friday was not a retail tradition in Nigeria. Since then,
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As the digital economy in Africa and the Middle East expands, reliable Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) infrastructure is becomin
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Verve, a payment card scheme operated by Nigerian fintech company Interswitch, is expanding its contactless payment products and introducing tokenisat
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For African writers, sharing your work to get paid on global platforms has always been a herculean task. African startups are building to solve this p
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Vodacom’s Tanzania arm has launched M-Pesa Global Payment, a suite of new international payment features on M-Pesa that allow its over 22 million user
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For years, African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have turned to retail platforms like AliExpress to save travel costs and, more recently, Temu t
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MoMo Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB), the fintech platform of Nigeria’s largest mobile network operator, MTN, has inked a strategic partnership with T
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M-KOPA Kenya, the Kenyan subsidiary of pay-as-you-go startup M-KOPA Holdings, has crossed $1.6 billion (KES 207 billion) in credit given to its custom
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Fusepay, a Seychelles-founded fintech building payment tools for frontier markets, has launched its digital payment platform to help businesses in the
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