Nigeria-based crypto startup Yellow Card has hit the one million user mark within three years of its launch, with uptake…
Author: Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson
Passionate about the vibrant tech startups scene in Africa, Tom can usually be found sniffing out the continent's most exciting new companies and entrepreneurs, funding rounds and any other developments within the growing ecosystem.
Six African agri-tech innovators have been named winners of the eighth edition of Pitch AgriHack, securing a share of US$45,000…
Nigerian startup Remedial Health, which develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain more efficient, has raised US$4.4 million in…
Kenyan startup Araka has launched a super app that seeks to solve challenges faced by on-demand mobility and logistics drivers.…
The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) has partnered GSMA Mobile for Development to create a Mobile Innovation Hub that…
Nigerian startup Edusko has developed an education marketplace that matches families with K-12 private schools and supports them with low-interest…
Egyptian beauty e-commerce platform Source Beauty has sold a majority stake to the Egyptian Company for Cosmetics (ECC), one of…
Women Who Build Africa (WWBA), an inclusive community that brings together women and non-binary people working in or around the…
Janngo Capital has announced the first close of its second fund at EUR34 million (US$36 million), and is targeting a…
Cameroonian startup Mungenow has launched a guesthouse-booking platform aimed at helping travellers to and across Cameroon’s major cities – and…