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Sparkle closes $3.1 Million all-Nigerian Seed Funding Round

Sparkle has announced it has raised an oversubscribed seed round of $3.1 Million from an all-Nigerian group of investors

Nigeria’s Eden Life Home Services App closes USD 1.4 Million Seed Round

Eden Life says the new capital raised will be deployed to build out its in-house technology and develop its own…

Internet Society Foundation launches $200,000 BOLT Grant for teams addressing Connectivity Gap

Internet Society Foundation launches BOLT Grant to promote digital inclusion.

Andela announces $200 Million Series E led by Softbank; now valued at $1.5 Billion

Andela helps companies build remote engineering teams by providing them with access to the best software engineers in the world

Nithio FI receives $10 Million from the US Development Finance Corporation to Scale Clean Energy Financing in Africa

Nithio, an AI-enabled clean energy financing platform, has today announced the investment of $10 Million from the US Development Finance…

Notify Logistics launches Entrepreneurs Program to Support 20,000 Retailers

Notify Logistics has set aside KES 45 Million for The Notify Entrepreneurs Program whose goal is to support at least…

pawaPay raises $9M Seed led by MSA, 88mph, and Mr Eazi’s Zagadat

pawaPay has announced a $9 Million seed raise in a round led by MSA and UK-based investment fund 88mph, with…

Egypt’s MaxAB acquires Morocco’s WaystoCap to expand across Maghreb region

MaxAB acquires WaystoCap to expand across Maghreb region

Kwara part of 11 Fintech Startups joining Mastercard Start Path Program

Kenya's Kwara, will be part of the the eleven startups joining the Mastercard Start Path program.

Bolt raises €600M to help accelerate expansion across Africa and Europe

Bolt has today announced it has raised €600M (KES 78 Billion). This latest round has increased the company's valuation to…

SWVL is going public in new merger with all-female SPAC, Queen’s Gambit

SWVL, the transportation startup that's been operating in Kenya for a while now, will be going public in a merger…

Health-tech Startup, Field Intelligence, expands to 11 cities in Kenya and Nigeria

Field Intelligence launched Shelf Life in 2017 to solve the inventory problem cutting across Africa’s $75B retail pharmacy market

AGRF and Heifer International announce launch of Pitch AgriHack 2021

The open competition portion of Pitch AgriHack 2021 will support companies that are driving innovation in agriculture across three categories-Early-stage,…

Voltron Capital wants to make funding readily available for African Startups

Olumide Soyombo, one of Africa’s most prolific and active early-stage investors in tech startups, has today announced the launch of…

Taager, Egypt’s Social eCommerce platform, closes $6.4M Seed Round

Taager will now scale its platform and expand to Middle East

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