SEO for startups can be overwhelming — but don’t let it keep you from getting started. Contrary to what you…
MDaaS, a healthcare startup with 16 diagnostic clinics in Nigeria, has opened its first clinic in Cameroon, marking its entry…
Kuda Bank, Moniepoint, OPay, and Palmpay have responded to the central bank’s April ban by expanding their compliance and fraud…
PaidHR, a Nigerian startup that helps businesses manage their HR functions, is in talks with investors to raise a $1.5…
Chowdeck, a Nigerian YC-backed food delivery platform, could consider expanding to South Africa, Kenya, and Ivory Coast. “We are still…
Okra, an open-banking startup in Nigeria, has launched Nebula, a cloud infrastructure product. It joins a growing list of homegrown…
Moove, the Uber-backed Nigerian startup that finances vehicles for ride-hailing companies, is expanding operations to the U.S. Since August, the…
Chpter was accepted into two accelerator programs before closing this pre-seed deal. Chpter, a Kenyan e-commerce startup launched by co-founders…
Ampersand, a Rwandan electric motorcycle manufacturer, has raised a $2 million Series A extension to expand to other East African…
It’s been 151 days since South Africa experienced load shedding, a deliberate rationing of electricity supply to prevent failure of…
Hohm Energy, the South African solar company that announced a $8 million seed round in February, is currently not operational due to…
Mobius Motors, a Kenya-based automaker backed by Playfair Capital, has entered a voluntary liquidation after efforts to rescue the company…
Nigerian neobanks and banking agents need each other. The agents are the neobanks’ branches; they open accounts, accept deposits, process…
Margins are slim in the food delivery business. Whether it’s a cloud kitchen like Food Court, a restaurant aggregator platform…
For the rollout of Ayra Starr’s album ‘The Year I Turned 21,’ her recordMavin made an unusual marketing…
Investor interest in African education technology (edtech) has cooled since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns highlighted how technology…
Caantin, the Kenyan startup that was formerly called Kibanda and then TopUpMama, has led many lives. Backed by Ventures Platform…
Chpter, a Kenyan AI-powered social commerce startup, has joined Safaricom’s Spark Accelerator, alongside eight others. Chpter is the first key…
Flutterwave, one of Africa’s leading payment companies, has secured a Mozambique payment aggregator licence in principle. This high-profile licence enables…
Kenyan identity management startup, Peleza has merged with YC-backed Prembly to form the Prembly Group. Both companies declined to provide…