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Luno launches early stage investment arm
Luno, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (“DCG”), announces the launch of Luno Expeditions, a global, early-stage investment arm to support the best...
Fintech digitises SA’s R300 billion in Krugerrands
Cape Town — Monday, 21 February 2022: South Africans have an estimated R300 billion in Krugerrands hidden in drawers and safes, unaware that they could be using...
Fawry Microfinance Reaches EGP 1 Billion in Total Disbursals Since Inception
Fawry Microfinance serves a client base of micro-entrepreneurs across Egypt, expanding access to affordable financial services.
14 February 2022 – (Cairo, Egypt) Fawry on the Egyptian...
Remedial Health joins Y Combinator, raises $1 million in pre-seed
Lagos, Nigeria. 14 February 2022 - Remedial Health, a health-tech startup that develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical sector more efficient, has raised $1 million in...
Meet CRYSTAL, changing the way SMEs recruit
With the global pandemic roiling labour markets across the world for the past two years, the recruitment industry has a particularly vital role to...
Casava secures $4 million pre-seed funding
Lagos, Nigeria. 2 February 2022 - Casava, Nigeria’s first 100% digital insurance company, has secured $4 million in pre-seed funding to provide affordable and accessible insurance...
IBEForuM Hosts the Digital Learning Africa Summit
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be the driving force to boost e-learning. This conference is designed to bring together the digital learning solution...
Innovative Merchant Platform for African Merchants
TradeDepot, Africa’s leading B2B eCommerce and embedded finance platform, has just raised $110 million in an equity and debt funding round to support the...
A kenyan digital platform formalises payments
A Nairobi-based fintech startup providing the financial infrastructure needed to connect Africa’s 150 million micro, medium and small-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to the formal financial...
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Egyptian HealthTech Startup Reme-D Raises $1.45M to Scale Disease Diagnostics
Egyptian health technology startup Reme-D has secured US$1.45 million in pre-Series A funding to accelerate the production of locally manufactured molecular diagnostic tests and...
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Kenya Climate Ventures Shifts Focus to Back Africa’s Earliest Climate Startups
Kenya Climate Ventures (KCV) is reshaping its investment strategy once again, placing greater emphasis on supporting Africa's earliest-stage climate startups as it seeks to...
Nigeria Unveils $350,000 iDICE Startup Growth Lab to Support Innovation Across Six Regions
Nigeria's Bank of Industry (BOI) has launched the iDICE Startup Growth Lab, a new accelerator programme aimed at helping promising technology startups scale their...
