Startups

“I didn’t know if Tix had a future. But I knew I wanted to survive”: Day 1 to 1000 of Tix

If you’ve ever bought a ticket to an event in Nigeria, chances are that the ticket was purchased on Tix,…

1 month ago

Lagos to Tokyo: Global startup lessons from Iyin Aboyeji and Akio Tanaka

At the fifth edition of Pitch2Win on July 30, Iyin Aboyeji, founding partner at Future Africa, and Akio Tanaka, founding…

1 month ago

Lipa Later sought $5 million from UK lender two weeks after entering administration

Two weeks after entering administration in March, Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup Lipa Later co-founder, Eric Muli, tried to raise $5…

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

This Mastercard-backed startup says it will be AfCFTA’s implementation engine

Despite Africa’s immense economic potential—a combined GDP exceeding $3 trillion and a population of over 1.4 billion—just 17% of its…

2 months ago

“It started as an embarrassment.”: Day 1-1000 of Advantage Health Africa

You can order hot jollof on Chowdeck and have it at your door before the steam fades. You can order…

2 months ago

Atsur is solving African art’s provenance problem with blockchain

Art—how we create, store, buy, and distribute it—has taken different forms across several centuries. In 2020, as a rare global…

2 months ago

Weeks after Copia’s collapse, co-founder, top executives quietly registered new startup

One month after Kenya’s Copia Global collapsed in May 2024 under the weight of operational debt and failure to raise…

2 months ago

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,…

2 months ago

Moniepoint, PiggyVest, M-KOPA, Interswitch named among world’s top 300 fintechs by CNBC

Ten African fintechs, including Interswitch, Moniepoint, M-KOPA, OPay, and PiggyVest, have been named among the world’s top 300 fintech companies…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 months ago

“People made this happen, not me”: Day 1-1000 of Lendsqr

Lendsqr grew from a side project to four failed product launches and found product-market fit, twice. If anyone in Nigeria…

3 months ago

African startups undervalued globally due to poor storytelling, report says

Despite the growth of Africa’s tech ecosystem in the last decade, startups on the continent continue to struggle with being…

3 months ago

“I don’t think I’ll ever sell to anyone”: Day 1-1000 of Auto24

In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the…

3 months ago

Uganda’s tech sector has “prepared the bride,” now it wants a dowry

In Kampala, Uganda, on June 19, just past 9 a.m., electric buses rolled through the gates of Kololo Independence Grounds,…

3 months ago

Exclusive: Chpter’s Flutterwave deal opens 11 new markets for WhatsApp-based selling

Chpter, the Kenyan software startup building infrastructure for social commerce, has expanded into 11 more African countries through a deal…

3 months ago