Africa

Why Fincra is teaming up with Reap to speed up Africa–Asia transactions

Fincra, a payments infrastructure provider for businesses in and beyond Africa, has partnered with Reap, a global stablecoin-enabled infrastructure provider,…

13 hours ago

7 African startups reimagining fintech, freight, and forex trading

Startups On Our Radar spotlights African startups solving African challenges with innovation. In our previous edition , we featured 5…

3 days ago

AgoraVisa believes not enough African top talent is immigrating

Each year, the U.S. issues approximately 140,000 employment-based immigrant visas, mostly for professionals and entrepreneurs who can build companies, advance…

5 days ago

For immigrants, this fintech makes credit history as portable as a passport

When Wale Akanbi, a former CTO and co-founder of Aella, a Nigerian financial and credit solutions provider, relocated to the…

1 week ago

Correction: 5 startups rethinking money, mobility, music, and more

Startups On Our Radar spotlights African startups solving African challenges with innovation. In our previous edition , we featured 7…

1 week ago

5 startups rethinking money, mobility, music, and more

Startups On Our Radar spotlights African startups solving African challenges with innovation. In our previous edition , we featured 7…

1 week ago

Alami Capital’s LaunchPad targets funding gap for African women-led startups

Alami Capital, an investment firm that connects entrepreneurs with capital and delivers projects, has unveiled The LaunchPad, a venture-building platform…

1 week ago

Using AI, these 5 African startups make assistive tech more accessible

Assistive technology in Africa has long been expensive, hard to maintain, and poorly suited to local needs. Screen readers can…

1 month ago

“Culture isn’t what you say, it’s what you allow”: Day 1-1000 of Haul247

Sehinde Afolayan, founder of logistics platform Haul247, was one of the first founders I interviewed as a journalist for TechCabal.…

1 month ago

Duniya Healthcare is digitising medicine supply chains to reach Zambia’s most remote clinics

In a remote part of Zambia, a heavily pregnant 17-year-old named Chipego arrived at a Catholic-run clinic in Monze District,…

2 months ago

Nigerians have tried and failed to curb dangerous policing; can a blockchain tool help?

In Lagos, the memory of October 20, 2020, still haunts Daniel Tambee, a Nigerian blockchain developer. That night, at the…

4 months ago

Day 1–1000: How Sycamore founders built the fintech from a living room

What does it really take to build a startup in Africa—from the first idea to the thousandth day? In Day…

4 months ago

Roam, M-Kopa top Kenyan firms on FT Africa’s fastest-growing companies list

Three Kenyan startups—Roam Electric AB, M-KOPA Holdings Ltd, and Victory Farms Ltd—have been named among Africa’s fastest-growing companies in the…

4 months ago

10 African startups opening markets, cutting CO2 & seafarming no one’s talking about yet

Startups on Our Radar is a bi-weekly column that spotlights new startups across Africa taking unconventional approaches, filling fundamental gaps,…

4 months ago

Interoperability critical to the future of payment solutions in Africa

Favourable demographics, economic growth in the past decade, and innovation in payments infrastructure are working to define the future of…

12 months ago

Mastercard Foundation conference spotlights Africa’s edtech startups

Investor interest in African education technology (edtech) has cooled since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns highlighted how technology…

1 year ago

Spiro secures $50m debt funding from Afreximbank to expand electric vehicles in Africa

Spiro, an India-based electric vehicle company, has signed a $50 million debt financing deal with Afreximbank to expand its offering…

1 year ago

Wave is Africa’s only startup on Y-Combinator’s list of top earners

For the second year running, Francophone fintech Wave is the only African company listed on Y-Combinator’s top 50 earning startups…

1 year ago

Nigerian neobank Kuda eyes global reach with new licenses

Kuda Microfinance Bank, the Target Global-backed neobank, has secured payment licences in Tanzania and Canada as part of an expansion…

2 years ago

GITEX Africa wants 100 Nigerian startups to exhibit in Morocco

The Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) wants to bring about 100 Nigerian companies to Marrakech, Morocco where the second edition…

2 years ago