South African startup Med-Afrique is spying opportunities across the continent as it taps into the growing medical tourism industry. Formed…
Month: May 2019
Impact investment firm Bamboo Capital Partners has signed a partnership with Smart Africa to support BLOC, the first-of-its-kind blended fintech…
South African AI-driven car insurance provider Naked has introduced a new feature that lets car buyers generate a proof of…
Facebook and the Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) have opened applications for the second edition of the FbStart Accelerator, which has…
Senegalese startup Comparez is making it possible for users in nine African countries to order goods from e-commerce platforms like…
Kenyan startup Fundis, a P2P platform that connects users with vetted craftsmen, has raised a seed funding round from local…
Rwanda-based female-focused e-commerce platform Kasha has launched operations in Kenya as it scales internationally for the first time. Launched in…
South African fintech startups have been invited to apply for the AlphaCode Incubate programme, which offers ZAR2 million in grant…
Arjuna Costa left a lucrative career on Wall Street to start funding microfinance organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa, and now he…
Lagos has been named as one of 12 “challenger” startup ecosystems in a global report that otherwise neglects the African…