Kenyan social commerce startup Tushop, which enables communities in Nairobi to buy groceries more cheaply with free delivery, has secured…
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.
Egypt’s Xpovi, a robo-advisory startup offering autonomous financial and business planning services, has closed a US$300,000 pre-seed funding round to…
Egyptian startup Khazna, a financial super app that offers easy to use, technology-driven financial services to underserved consumers and micro-businesses,…
South African fintech startup Sticitt has secured an oversubscribed round of seed funding to help it continue to grow. Co-founded…
Twenty-four African startups have been pitching at demo days after participating in the W22 batch of the renowned Silicon Valley-based…
Nigerian “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) startup CredPal has raised US$15 million in funding to expand its consumer credit offerings…
Egyptian e-health startup Otida has raised US$340,000 in funding to boost its goal of improving the lives of 5,000 diabetes…
Applications have opened for South Africa’s Grindstone, a business accelerator that offers selected companies access to a structured entrepreneurship development…
Morocco’s Al Mada Holding Group has launched a MAD1.1 billion (US$110 million) pan-African venture capital fund to invest in fast-growing…
Egyptian fantasy football platform Eksab has raised a US$3 million seed funding round to help it scale across the Middle…