Johannesburg-based venture development and investment company Founders Factory Africa has partnered Small Foundation to provide a platform that will design,…
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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.
Nigeria-based credit-led neobank FairMoney, which aims to give underbanked people access to digital financial services, is pursuing an emerging markets…
Malian insurtech startup OKO, which aims to provide smallholder farmers with financial security, has raises US$1.2 million in seed funding…
Kenya Ecobodaa, which is working to roll out electric motorbike taxis, has raised a round of funding from Persistent Energy…
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the USAID/Nigeria COVID-19 Food Security Challenge, which will offer US$3 million…
The “unicorn” status secured by Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave after a US$170 million funding round raised in March can be…
Nigerian fintech startup Okra has secured a US$3.5 million seed funding round in order to expand its data infrastructure across…
Africa-focused venture capital (VC) firm Atlantica Ventures is raising a US$50 million fund that will invest in tech and tech-enabled…
Suitera, a semiconductor startup aiming to provide tools for the design of next generation integrated circuits, has become the second…
Eight Egyptian startups have been selected to take part in the Flat6Labs Cairo accelerator, which provides companies with access to…