Ghanaian fintech startup Zeepay has raised US$200,000 in funding in order to expand its service offering, while also announcing a…
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.
Now is the time for South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to capitalise on the country’s “gloomy” economy and…
Taxi app Easy Taxi has continued its recent expansion in Kenya with a launch in the coastal city of Mombasa,…
Lusaka-based tech and innovation hub BongoHive has partnered the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to launch the Ideas Challenge Zambia,…
The final AMPION Venture Bus of the year – the Southern African leg focused on hardware and agriculture – begins…
African startups will solutions in the digital health sector have been offered the opportunity to scale their businesses to Dubai…
The idea of impact investing is gaining ground in Africa, with almost half of investment assets in South Africa, Kenya…
African e-commerce companies must scale quickly and understand their customers if they are to be ready to “ride the wave”…
A consortium of international financial investors have acquired a majority stake in Egyptian e-payments startup Fawry, a deal that that…
Global seed-stage startups competition Seedstars World has chosen 10 startups to compete in the Senegalese leg in Dakar, with the…