South African startup Iyeza Health has been named winner of the eighth edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit Awards. Sankalp…
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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.
Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave has closed a US$170 million Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an…
Emilian Popa started as an entrepreneur, building Groupon South Africa in 2010, before working with Rocket Internet in Asia, India,…
Nuru, a developer of hybrid solar off-grids based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has raised EUR1 million (US$1.2…
Zimbabwean freelancing platform AfriBlocks has been selected to take part in the Techstars Seattle accelerator, securing access to mentorship, networks…
Abidjan-based digital transportation startup Moja Ride has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Toyota Tsusho Corporation as it looks…
Ten Nigerian startups have been selected to take part in the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub iNOVO accelerator, which offers training and…
Kenya-based B2B and B2B2C insurance-as-a-service platform and API Lami has digitised the entire insurance value chain end-to-end, and is busy…
Nigerian startup Crowdyvest, until now a crowdfunding platform part of the same group of companies as agri-tech company Farmcrowdy, has…
The Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) has opened applications for its GrowUp Incubator, which aims to support green social businesses working…