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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...
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...
The 2026 Launch Blueprint: How to Connect Your Startup’s Digital Presence to a Multi-Agent WhatsApp Inbox
In the Nigerian startup ecosystem, we often celebrate the wrong metrics. We toast to "User Acquisition," "Waitlist Signups," and "Monthly Active Users," but we...
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...
How Chukwuemeka Afigbo’s Africa Deep Tech Foundation Is Helping African Tech Engineers and Founders Scale Their Ideas
For Chukwuemeka Afigbo, the convener of the Africa Deep Tech Foundation (ADTF), the challenge facing Africa’s technologists is not a lack of ideas. It...
Nigerian Edtech Startup, Lena, Uses Games and AI to Keep Children Engaged in School Subjects
Founded by Danny Ombeh and Faruk Bilesanmi, Nigerian startup, Lena, is turning school curricula into immersive games in a bid to reshape how children...
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