Senegalese startup Nixacom is providing affordable, payroll-deducted financing for tech products in partnership with local banks. Founded in October 2023…
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.
Global payment card network Visa has opened applications for the fourth edition of its biannual Africa Fintech Accelerator, which provides…
South African startup Social Justice has developed a digital platform for the reporting of maintenance obligation – the obligation to…
Using “agents” to deliver basic agricultural support to farmers is not a new invention, writes Abraham Augustine, a technology and…
In 2000, after the burst of the dot-com bubble in the United States, a man called Philip J. Kaplan launched…
The Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC), a South African investment firm with a 30-year history of supporting community-based economic initiatives, is…
Kenyan startup VunaPay is an agri-fintech company that addresses the issue of delayed payments for smallholder farmers by providing instant…
Nigerian startup Ajé, a blockchain-powered social commerce platform, has achieved a major milestone by onboarding over 7,500 users in just…
2024, like 2023, has been a tough year for African tech startup funding, as the sector continues to feel the…
Nigerian e-health startup PBR Life Sciences has raised a US$1 million pre-seed funding round to scale its innovative data-as-a-service and…