Tag: South Africa
Nigerian mental health technology startup Mytherapist is helping individuals and couples access professional therapy through online consultations, appointment bookings and digital wellbeing tools, as it seeks to make mental healthcare more accessible and affordable. Founded in 2021...
Nigerian healthcare technology startup Helium Health has secured a $2.5 million grant from Google.org to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at improving maternal healthcare delivery and reducing preventable deaths in Nigeria.
The funding will support the...
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Lighthouse Capital Seeks $50 Million to Back High-Growth Businesses in South Africa, Kenya
YAKUB ABDULRASHEED - Lighthouse Capital, an operator-led private equity firm, is seeking to raise $50 million to invest in high-growth mid-market businesses across South...
How South African Agritech Startup Divisi is Using Field-Level Data to Help Smallholder Farmers Cut Losses
South African agri-tech startup Divisi is seeking to change how smallholder farmers make planting and production decisions by using field-specific data to determine what...
Luno Is Democratising Access to US Stocks Through Tokenised Investing, Expanding How South Africans Invest
South Africans are increasingly turning to tokenised stocks as a gateway to global investing, with new data from digital assets platform, Luno showing growing...
Bitget Wallet Unveils Crypto-Powered Dollar Card in South Africa, Offers Early Rewards and Seamless Global Payments
Bitget Wallet has opened pre-registration for its new Bitget Dollar Card in South Africa, offering early adopters a mix of financial incentives and access...
Power Inequality Exposed as Energy Startup, Wetility, Unveils Tool Mapping South Africa’s Outage Divide
South Africa’s deepening electricity crisis has taken a data-driven turn as Wetility launches a new interactive lookup tool that allows citizens to track the...
Duplo–Ozow Alliance Targets End-to-End Financial Automation for South African Businesses
Nigerian fintech Duplo has announced a strategic partnership with South Africa’s leading payment gateway Ozow to reshape how businesses manage their financial operations.
The collaboration...
South Africa’s Littlefish Raises $9.5m to Build Financial Tools for SMEs Across Africa
Littlefish, a South African fintech start-up building financial infrastructure for small businesses, has raised $9.5 million in a Series A funding round to scale...
Happy Pay Secures $5m Seed Round to Expand Africa’s Ad-Supported Payments Network
Happy Pay, a South African buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) start-up, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round to expand what it describes as Africa’s...
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...
South African Startup, Machankura is Powering Bitcoin to Work With USSD and Without Internet AccessÂ
Bitcoin and other digital assets promise fast, low-cost cross-border payments. Yet, in practice, they remain tethered to smartphones and reliable internet access, luxuries still...
Womandla Foundation, IAVE and IBM SkillsBuild Partner to Equip South African Youth and Women with AI SkillsÂ
As automation and artificial intelligence continue to reshape entry-level work globally, a new phase of the Reskilling Revolution Africa initiative has been launched in...
Exclusive: How Le Roux Viljoen Is Building South Africa’s Surgical Theatre Assistance Network With Surgical Assistant and SurgiFlow
Operating theatres are among the most high-stakes environments in medicine, as every procedure requires a precisely coordinated team. Yet for years, surgeons in South...
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