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How Nigeria’s Restoneer Is Changing the Way African Restaurants Track Costs and Manage Ingredients
Restoneer, a fast-rising Nigerian restaurant-tech startup, is reinventing how restaurants track costs, manage ingredients, and protect profit margins across Africa’s food ecosystem. Built as an...
Egypt’s Taager Enters Morocco, Targets Booming E-commerce Market in First North African Expansion
Egyptian social-commerce startup Taager has officially launched operations in Morocco, marking its first step into North Africa as part of a broader regional expansion...
How Kenyan Startup, Zendawa, is Digitising and Bringing Africa’s Neighbourhood Pharmacies Online
Zendawa, a Kenyan startup based in Nakuru, believes the future of African healthcare runs through micro-pharmacies. Founded in 2022, the team has developed a...
Why Are African Startup Founders Struggling to Secure Early-Stage Funding? Here’s What We Found
African startup founders have firmly established the continent as one of the fastest-growing technology frontiers in the world. Across markets, founders are scaling products,...
Kenya’s BasiGo Secures Major Funding From France’s Proparco to Accelerate EV Expansion Across Africa
Kenya’s electric mobility pioneer, BasiGo, has secured fresh financing from Proparco, the French development finance institution, in a move set to supercharge the company’s...
Why Vendy’s New Payment Infrastructure Could Redefine How Africans Buy on WhatsApp
Africa’s soaring population of social media users and online shoppers has accelerated the rise of social commerce, an ecosystem where buying and selling happen...
How Nigeria’s Bottomline Assist Is Proving that Africa is the World’s Next Outsourcing Powerhouse
When Francis Adelore speaks about Africa’s future in the global outsourcing market, it is with the conviction of someone who has lived the problem,...
African Cities Innovation Fund Launch $75k Grant to Startups Solving Real Urban Challenges – What You Should Know
The Judith Neilson Foundation, an Australia-based philanthropy group, has partnered with the Million Lives Collective (MLC) to launch the new African Cities Innovation Fund,...
How South Africa’s Meetable is Fixing Adult Loneliness With Curated Friendship Dinners
South African startup Meetable is emerging as a structured antidote to urban loneliness, connecting strangers through curated friendship-building dinners.
The platform, founded in early 2025...
How Alfred Ongere’s Ai Kenya is Helping SMEs and Corporates Understand and Adopt AI Across Africa
Ai Kenya, founded by Alfred Ongere, began in 2017 as a volunteer-led effort to demystify artificial intelligence for students and developers in Nairobi. What started...
Ridelink: This Ugandan Startup Is Using AI to Help Africans Trade Globally and Access Working Capital
Ridelink, a Ugandan startup now headquartered in San Francisco, is positioning itself as a one-stop platform for logistics, credit and predictive intelligence across Africa–Asia...
MEST Africa Challenge 2025: Black Swan Wins $50,000, Showing a New Phase in Data-Driven Fintech Innovation
Black Swan, a Mauritius-based fintech startup, has clinched the top prize at the MEST Africa Challenge 2025, edging out hundreds of competitors from across...
