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Jise raises $100,000 angel funding, commences food delivery in Lagos

Nigeria’s first food-only delivery platform, Jise has raised $100,000 angel investment from notable investors including, Backroom Capital — Nigeria, Winston Capital — Ireland, Jonny Enagwolor, Co-Founder Treepz Inc amongst others.

Emerging Africa Group acquires majority stake in Fundall to build Africa's first financial Super-app

Fundall is building Africa’s first financial super app, to help individuals & businesses spend smartly, manage money & grow money — from living their best lives every day to planning for the future.

Nigeria's Sendbox raises $1.8 Million to enable deliveries for SMEs in Africa

With the goal to provide logistics and e-commerce fulfilment for merchants in Africa, Sendbox announced the completion 0f its $1.8 million seed round.

Payday becomes the first Rwandan company to join Techstars Toronto Accelerator

Payday becomes the first Rwandan company in history to join the prestigious 3-months Accelerator program that provides entrepreneurs with invaluable skills, resources, and connections to a large pool of global talent and investors.

AVPA and Investor Flow to promote impact investments in Africa

Pan-African network for social investors, African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) and Investor Flow announced a strategic partnership to further promote impact investing across Africa.

Klasha launches in Ghana to facilitate cross border payments and e-commerce

Klasha, a startup that simplifies borderless payments for commerce in Africa is now in Ghana

OurPass is Redefining Online Commerce with its Checkout solution

Ourpass app is created to enhance and improve the success rates of online business sales in Africa's digital marketplace.

MEST in partnership with Mastercard announces MEST Scale Accelerator for SMEs in Ghana

MEST Scale is a venture acceleration program designed by MEST, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, to help Small and Medium Enterprises strengthen their operations, address key technology gaps, and increase their ability and capacity to scale their growth

Andela is now a Unicorn with $200 million in Series E led by Softbank

After closing this Series E round led by Softbank, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and other investors, Andela is now valued at $1.5 billion

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.

TechAdvance is now Bloc

TechAdvance has rebranded to Bloc to offer a more personalized experience to its clients.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

pawaPay Closes on Seed Funding of $9M

African payments company pawaPay, has secured a $9m Seed raise.

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.

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