Back at the start of the year, Disrupt Africa unveiled its 12 African startups to watch in 2019. How did…
Month: December 2019
Senegal has become the second African country after Tunisia to pass a dedicated Startup Act after 90 per cent of…
Nigeria overtook South Africa to become the most popular destination for tech investors on the continent in 2018, and though…
It has been coming for a while, but 2019 was the year when Egypt emphatically established itself as one of…
As recently as 2017, we had our concerns about whether or not the Kenyan startup space was developing in the…
Nigerian event organisation and ticketing startup Festival Coins has raised funding from early-stage VC firm Microtraction as it plans quick…
Ivory Coast-based fintech startup Julaya has raised US$550,000 in funding from French angel investors to grow its operations in the…
There have been ups and downs, and other ecosystems are developing fast, but South Africa remains a leader in tech…
South African genetics-based e-health startup 3X4 Genetics has raised US$2.5 million in Series A funding to help it expand to…
Nigerian fintech startup Carbon has launched into Kenya, allowing Kenyans to access instant loans of between KES500 (US$50) and KES50,000…