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Nigus and Elmirate Sign $200 Million Deal to Build Defence and Satellite Production Systems in Nigeria
Nigus International Investment Limited and Elmirate Investment LLC (Elmirate Capital) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a defence technology, satellite systems and...
Nigeria Launches iDICE Startup Bridge with ₦10m Grants and $100,000 Investments for Early-Stage Founders
Nigeria’s federal government has launched the iDICE Startup Bridge, a two-track initiative designed to support early-stage founders with grants of up to ₦10 million...
Smart Africa and Certa Foundation Partner to Advance AI Governance and Digital Policy Across Africa
The Smart Africa Secretariat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Certa Foundation to advance digital governance, innovation policy and regulatory capacity...
Atlancis, EverseTech, and iXAfrica Launches Servernah Cloud to Power Local AI Innovation in Kenya
Atlancis Technologies, EverseTech, and iXAfrica Data Centres have unveiled Servernah Cloud, Kenya’s first sovereign-hosted cloud and AI platform designed to support regulated and mission-critical...
Kenya’s AT4D Launches $500,000 Fund to Back Assistive Technology Startups Across Africa
Kenya-based nonprofit, Assistive Technologies for Disability Trust (AT4D), has partnered with the Judith Neilson Foundation to launch a $500,000 investment fund designed to support...
Nigeria’s Prembly Launches AI-Powered FraudLens to Tackle Digital Fraud Across Africa
Nigerian digital security and identity verification startup, Prembly, has launched FraudLens, an open-source fraud intelligence bank designed to help financial institutions, fintechs, and digital...
South Africa’s Yazi Raises $1.6m Valuation to Scale WhatsApp-Based AI Research Platform
South African artificial intelligence startup, Yazi, has secured its first institutional investment round at a pre-money valuation of R30 million ($1.6 million), marking a...
TeKnowledge and Microsoft Partner to Launch AI Skilling Initiative and Train 10,000 Nigerians
Global technology services firm, TeKnowledge has announced an expanded role in the second phase of Microsoft’s AI National Skilling Initiative in Nigeria, a programme...
Nigeria’s Decide AI, is Using Artificial Intelligence to Simplify Spreadsheet and Help Analyse Data Without Coding
Abiodun Adetona, a former software engineer at Flutterwave, noticed a persistent challenge, as colleagues from non-technical teams frequently struggled to extract insights from spreadsheets...
Basata Expands Digital Payments in Egypt with Nationwide POS Network and Mobile Wallet Support
Basata Holding for Financial Investments, a leading Egyptian fintech specialising in digital payments, has announced a major expansion of its point-of-sale (POS) network. The company’s...
Orca Fraud Secures $2.35m to Strengthen Fraud Detection Across Africa’s Digital Payments Ecosystem
Financial technology startup, Orca Fraud, has raised $2.35 million in seed funding to expand its transaction monitoring and fraud intelligence platform across Africa and...
NKENNEAi and Nigeria’s NITDA Partner to Build AI Systems That Understand African Languages
The Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has partnered NKENNEAi, an African language artificial intelligence platform, to accelerate the development of language technologies...
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