When the COVID-19 crisis hit Africa earlier this year, and countries went into varying degrees of lockdown, the prognosis for…
Month: December 2020
Back at the start of the year, Disrupt Africa unveiled its 12 African startups to watch in 2020. How did…
Individual startup ecosystems across the continent, be they in South Africa, Nigeria or Kenya, may steal a lot of the…
Over the last couple of years, Egypt has established itself as one of the heavyweights when it comes to tech…
Kenyan retail-tech startup MarketForce has formalised its Troops project into a B2B wholesale e-commerce marketplace, which will leverage on gig…
Kenyan e-health startup Damu-Sasa, which runs an innovative end-to-end blood services information management platform, has been awarded US$20,000 in grant…
Nigerian startup truQ, an on-demand logistics platform that leverages technology to connect anyone who needs to move anything with the…
Zambian startup PremierCredit, a micro-lending platform that also has operations in Zimbabwe, has raised US$650,000 in funding from Enygma Ventures…
Having had our concerns in the past about whether the Kenyan startup space was developing in the hoped-for manner, we…
Senegalese solar distributor Oolu has closed a US$8.5 million Series B investment round to help it accelerate its growth. Launched…