Small Business

Product-Channel Fit: Finding the Right Growth Strategy for Your Product

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ revenue professionals weekly to stay up-to-date and…

11 months ago

PaidHR in talks for $1.5million seed round; introduces new cross-border payroll

PaidHR, a Nigerian startup that helps businesses manage their HR functions, is in talks with investors to raise a $1.5…

12 months ago

M-KOPA appoints former Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri as new board chairman

M-KOPA Holding, a Kenyan startup that offers financing for smartphones and solar systems, has appointed former Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri…

12 months ago

Chowdeck “looking at” South Africa and Kenya for possible expansion

Chowdeck, a Nigerian YC-backed food delivery platform, could consider expanding to South Africa, Kenya, and Ivory Coast.  “We are still…

12 months ago

Okra joins local cloud providers providing affordable alternatives to AWS and Azure

Okra, an open-banking startup in Nigeria, has launched Nebula, a cloud infrastructure product. It joins a growing list of homegrown…

1 year ago

Uber-backed Moove takes its search for profitability to America

Moove, the Uber-backed Nigerian startup that finances vehicles for ride-hailing companies, is expanding operations to the U.S. Since August, the…

1 year ago

Kenyan e-commerce startup Chpter raises $1.2 million in pre-seed round

Chpter was accepted into two accelerator programs before closing this pre-seed deal.  Chpter, a Kenyan e-commerce startup launched by co-founders…

1 year ago

Electric motorcycle maker Ampersand raises $2 million to expand in East Africa

Ampersand, a Rwandan electric motorcycle manufacturer, has raised a $2 million Series A extension to expand to other East African…

1 year ago

End of load shedding tests South Africa’s solar industry

It’s been 151 days since South Africa experienced load shedding, a deliberate rationing of electricity supply to prevent failure of…

1 year ago

Raenest, Leatherback, Vesti, and Graph pitch themselves to African founders as Mercury alternatives

African fintechs that help companies access banking services in the U.S. and Canada are wooing founders affected by Mercury’s abrupt…

1 year ago