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How Ecobarter Is Making Nigeria’s Cities Cleaner and Greener By Using Digital Tools to Solve Waste Challenges
Nigeria’s urban population has grown steadily over the past decade, but its waste management systems have struggled to keep pace. Amid this environmental and operational...
Scale and Mastercard Partner to Simplify Card Issuance and Accelerate Digital Payments Across Africa
Scale, a South African card-issuing startup, has entered into a partnership with Mastercard aimed at simplifying how businesses launch and manage card products across...
Nigeria’s Fixr Technologies is Building Contractor-Led System to Fix Africa’s Broken Service Marketplace Model
When Ikechi Adolphus co-founded Fixr Technologies with Olamide Akangbe, the ambition was not to launch another tech startup chasing rapid valuations. Instead, the Lagos-based...
Deccan AI Raises $25m to Power the Engine, Data and Evaluation Behind AI Systems
Deccan AI, a fast-rising startup specialising in post-training data and evaluation for artificial intelligence models, has secured $25 million in its first major funding...
Phoenix Venture Partners Leads $2.5m Investment in Edtech Startup, GAGA to Scale Interactive Digital Education
Phoenix Venture Partners Limited (PVP) has led a $2.5 million Pre-Series A funding round in edtech platform GAGA Inc., marking the company’s first fully...
Ivorian Startup, Yelen, is Building an All-in-One Social Commerce Platform for Sellers in Francophone Africa
Ivorian startup, Yelen, is betting on messaging-driven trade, offering payments, storefronts and logistics in a single ecosystem platform for sellers across Africa. Across much of...
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...
Alef Education and AfricAI Launch AI NextGen Learning to Bridge Learning Gaps Across 18 African Countries
Alef Education, a UAE-based global education technology firm, has signed a MoU with AfricAI, a Nigeria-based company with operations across 18 African countries, to...
Check Point Unveils AI Defence Plane to Target Risk and Control Autonomous Systems in Real Time
Check Point Software Technologies has launched a new artificial intelligence security platform designed to address growing risks as AI systems evolve from passive tools...
Why Roqqu’s Product Expansion Could Change How Nigerians Trade and Spend Crypto
Roqqu, a Nigerian cryptocurrency start-up, is accelerating its evolution beyond basic trading services after attracting more than 30,000 users to its locally built futures...
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...
CcHUB Launches Five-Year ‘GATEWAY’ Programme to Train 340,000 Nigerians for Global Gig Economy
Co-creation HUB (CcHUB), Nigeria’s innovation centre and technology hub, has opened registrations for GATEWAY, to target the unemployment gap with nationwide digital skills push...
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