News Gokada resumes ride-hailing, expands into Ibadan With more than 1.5 million deliveries for 30,000 merchants in Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, Gokada intends to replicate its success in Ibadan, Oyo state.
News TechAdvance is now Bloc TechAdvance has rebranded to Bloc to offer a more personalized experience to its clients.
News Qala Fellowship to train the next generation of African Bitcoin developers Qala Fellowship has received a 0.5BTC grant from the New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) to train Bitcoin developers in Africa.
Fintech Shecluded: A Gender-based Fintech that keeps on giving Shecluded plans to change the lives of a lot of women by ensuring more female-led MSMEs grow to large organizations in the future.
News Releaf secures $4.2 million to scale Nigeria's oil palm sector Releaf has secured $4.2 million in seed funding and grants to drive the industrialization of food processing for Africa which will also enable Nigeria’s Oil Palm sector
News TechAdvance unveils Bloc — a faster way to build fintech products TechAdvance has announced the release of its product, Bloc—a proprietary suite of APIs capable of helping anyone launch a FinTech product in far less time than it usually takes.
News Renaissance Capital to double down on the Africa tech and fintech space. Renaissance Capital intends to support the African tech ecosystem through advisory, research and venture investing.
News Flutterwave to offer MTN Mobile Money as a payment method in Africa Flutterwave will now provide MTN mobile money as a payment method for businesses in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia
News Pezesha raises seed extension to fuel expansion across Africa Pezesha has announced the close of a seven-figure growth funding round led by GreenHouse Capital (GHC). The pan-African fintech company committed to building scalable lending infrastructure for SMEs and institutions disclosed this on Tuesday.
News Endeavor Nigeria commences Endeavour ScaleUp Program to support 7 entrepreneurs Endeavor Nigeria commence a 10-week incubation program to support and seven Nigerian based emerging high impact entrepreneurs.
News Autochek acquires Cheki Kenya and Cheki Uganda from ROAM Africa AutoChek has reached an agreement with ROAM Africa to acquire Cheki Kenya and Cheki Uganda as part of its plans to expand further into the African Market
News Africa Data Centres reveals continent’s largest-ever data centre expansion plan 10 Interconnected, cloud- and carrier-neutral data centers will be built across the length and breadth of the continent in an unrivaled $500m investment in Africa’s digital future
News B2B Platform Sabi Reaches 150,000 Merchants in Nigeria Sabi, a B2B marketplace serving Africa’s informal sector, today announced the milestone of over 150,000 small business users on its platform.
News pawaPay Closes on Seed Funding of $9M African payments company pawaPay, has secured a $9m Seed raise.
News MaxAB Acquires Morocco’s WaystoCap to scale; adds $15M to Series A MaxAB, the largest Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, has acquired WaystoCap, the Morocco-based B2B e-commerce and distribution platform that connects retailers with suppliers across Africa.
Brand Press Bossbus partners Jim Iyke on debut movie production, "Bad Comments" Transport tech company, Bossbus partners Jim Iyke and his Film Production company, 6th Sense on the release of their debut movie, Bad Comments
News Bitnob integrates Lightning Network for faster transactions and smaller fees In line with its mission to promote financial inclusion through blockchain technology, Bitnob has integrated the lightning network to facilitate faster and cheaper transactions on its app
News Discover® Global Network and Flutterwave extend payment acceptance for e-commerce businesses across Africa Discover® Global Network and Flutterwave, a San Francisco and Lagos-based payments technology company, have signed an agreement that will help increase acceptance for both local and international e-commerce merchants.
News GreenHouse Lab announces 2021 Cohort for Founders-Backed fintech accelerator The eight startups in GreenHouse Lab 2021 include GetEquity, PayHive, MyInvest, Collect Africa, Chumz.io, Route, Scale X and Dojah
Brand Press OctaFX—Mastering This Art Called Forex One can attain mastery in a thing like...like forex trading? Hold that thought while I tell you a quick story.
News Enye announces 2021 hackathon in partnership with workflow automation platform Quabbly The hackathon is themed around leveraging no-code tools and scalable APIs to help automate products and optimize business logic.
Opinion 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the i-invest App I-invest allows investors to purchase diverse instruments, including Treasury Bills, Fixed Deposits, Equities, Eurobonds, Commercial papers and Life insurance.
Funding Moove, the mobility fintech powering credit for Uber drivers in Africa, secures $23 million Series A This round brings Moove’s total funding to $68.2 million, including $28.2M in equity and $40.0M in debt
News Chekkit closes $500k pre-seed funding round to accelerate clampdown on counterfeit products Nigerian anti-counterfeit startup, Chekkit closes $500,000 pre-seed round with participation from local and foreign investors.
Opinion 10 exciting trends in the world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) NFTs have become a major buzzword and expanded outside of the crypto and tech space to become mainstream since Beeple’s $69.3 million art sale in March.
