South African fintech investment firm Crossfin Technology Holdings has been acquired by a consortium of investors in a ZAR1.5 billion…
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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.
Kenyan e-health startup MYDAWA has been awarded a grant of US$1.2 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed…
Nigeria’s Octamile, an insurtech company enabling insurance and non-insurance businesses to protect African consumers from financial loss, has come out…
South African fintech group Adumo has acquired SwitchPay, a provider of alternative payment solutions for consumers both in-store and online,…
Egyptian startup Homzmart, the Middle East’s leading furniture and home goods marketplace, has announced the expansion of its operations into…
Germany-based VC firm GreenTec Capital Partners has announced undisclosed investments in two Nigerian startups – inter-city transport company T40 and…
Egyptian legal-tech startup Hekouky has raised an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding to expand nationwide. Founded in 2021 by Hala…
Applications have opened for early-stage Ghanaian startups to scale their operations through the MEST Express accelerator programme. MEST Express is…
A startup founded by university friends that pivoted away from its initial model to find product-market fit in the logistics…
Algerian on-demand transport platform Yassir has raised a US$30 million Series A funding round to allow it to grow in…