Small Business

M-KOPA lawsuit alleges racial disparity in employee equity, firm says claim is baseless

When M-KOPA Holdings, a UK-headquartered fintech with over five million users across five African markets, restructured its shareholding in 2019,…

4 months ago

The biggest fintech companies in Nigeria (2025)

Nigeria continues to dominate Africa’s fintech landscape in 2025, even as funding slows across much of the continent. In the…

4 months ago

Stitch acquires Efficacy Payments to become a direct card processor in South Africa

Stitch, the South Africa-based payments infrastructure company, has acquired Efficacy Payments, a digital payments startup with direct access to the…

4 months ago

Correction: WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…

4 months ago

After processing $9.3 billion in Q1, Kuda relaunches remittance product for non-Nigerian users

Three years after shelving its initial cross-border remittance plans, Nigerian neobank Kuda Technologies has relaunched with a multi-currency wallet that…

4 months ago

Visa’s billion-dollar bet positions Francophone Africa as Africa’s next fintech frontier

In the hierarchy of Africa’s fintech narrative, Francophone countries are often second placed. The Anglophone giants—Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa—have…

4 months ago

WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

As mobile banking adoption surges across Nigeria, users demand faster and simpler ways to manage their money, without switching apps…

4 months ago

“Uganda isn’t our side bet”: How Greenhouse Capital is rewriting its rules for Africa

On most maps of African venture capital, Uganda does not even make the key. Investors, accelerators, tech reporters—almost everyone has…

4 months ago

Wave raises $137 million in debt to expand mobile money services across Africa

Wave, one of Africa’s most valuable startups, has raised a $137 million debt round to bolster its working capital and…

5 months ago

Voice tech startup Intron launches new AI models amid broader sector expansion

Intron, a Nigerian AI company that provides speech-to-text transcription tools for healthcare workers, is introducing new speech recognition and text-to-speech…

5 months ago