Olumide Soyombo, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors in tech startups, has launched Voltron Capital, a pan-African VC firm…
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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.
South African payments and software startup Yoco has secured US$83 million in Series C funding to accelerate the development of…
Nigerian mobile game developer Maliyo Games has partnered Google to launch the #GameUp Bootcamp game developer training programme in Ghana,…
Zimbabwe’s Thumeza, which provides small-scale transporters with immediately accessible working capital, is planning on expanding across the SADC region after…
South African insurtech startup Pineapple has raised ZAR80 million (US$5.4 million) in Series A funding as it looks to expand…
Manufacturing tech leader Guidewheel, which began life as Safi in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, has closed a US$8 million Series…
The Johannesburg-based Convergence Partners, a private equity investor focused on the technology sector across sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the successful…
Pan-African innovation hub network AfriLabs has added an additional 24 new members to expand its total membership to 292 across…
The Ghanaian tech space has received some major exposure in recent months after the April announcement that Twitter was to…
Kenyan startup KOSA AI, an automated responsible AI systems platform, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed funding round to help it…