South African fintech company Retail Capital, which provides funding to small and medium-sized businesses, has been acquired by TymeBank, South…
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.
Ugandan tourism-tech startup Tripesa has raised a pre-seed round of funding as it seeks product-market fit ahead of continental expansion.…
Startups from Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Tunisia are among the 20 winners of this year’s Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2022, a…
Nigerian startup Babymigo is providing access to expert-led health information and hyperlocal childcare services to pregnant women and parents via…
South Africa-based accelerator Grindstone has announced the 25 companies that will be embarking on its year-long programme across cohorts in…
The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition, a flagship philanthropic programme established by the Jack Ma Foundation to spotlight and support…
Kenyan HR startup Crew HR &Payroll has rebranded as FaidiHR after it received an undisclosed amount of funding from SprintX,…
Nigerian Know-Your-Customer (KYC) startup Youverify has raised US$1 million in seed extension funding to take the total size of its…
South African mining company Anglo American has launched an incubator programme through its enterprise development arm Zimele. The programme will…
Kenya-based B2B and B2B2C insurance-as-a-service platform and API Lami has raised a US$3.7 million seed extension round to help it…