Disrupt Podcast offers listeners a fortnightly wrap-up of all the developments in the African tech startup ecosystem, interviews with key…
Month: July 2020
Ugandan startup Eversend, a digital-only finance platform providing cross-border money transfers among other services, has closed an oversubscribed Seedrs crowdfunding…
Nigerian startup Eden Life, which provides busy city workers with a digital room service platform, has secured a funding round…
Zimbabwe-based hotel-booking startup Africabookings is the second platform acquired by B2B company HotelOnline within a month, as the company looks…
Zambian microfinance startup Lupiya has raised a US$1 million funding round to help it continue to scale and roll out…
African startups have been invited to apply for three ITU Innovation Challenges, with winners given the chance to attend a…
The African e-health ecosystem is thriving, with COVID-19 encouraging even quicker uptake in a sector that was already on the…
Nigerian group-buying startup Pricepally has secured funding from German firm GreenTec Capital Partners as it looks to deepen its operations…
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to make equity-free investments of up to US$100,000 in early-stage blockchain startups that have…
Tech-enabled laundry services are not the norm in Ivory Coast, but a startup called Easy2toofacil has seen strong early uptake…