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In nearly a decade, hundreds of entrepreneurs have emerged with innovative startups across the African continent. We provide insights on their experiences and highlight the activities of investors who fund them.
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Led by Olumide Soyombo, founder of LeadPath Nigeria, and with participation from International and Pan-African investors Village Capital and Ventures Platform, Piggybank will deploy the $1.1 million VC investment for license acquisition and product development.
Macron has made recent visits to Africa and lauded the initiatives coming from the continent. It comes as no surprise that he has a big game plan for African startups.
The company behind the popular Opera browser, Opera Software is about closing an acquisition deal for Telnet Nigeria Limited’s mobile money platform — Paycom. It was reported that Opera Software is set to acquire a controlling stake in Paycom with the intention that OPay — Opera’s mobile payment platform — will have footprints in the…
The competing startups at Venture Clash event were Solynta Mobile, Sattrak Services Limited, CompareIN Ltd, Kangpe Inc, Advancio Interactive, Amplify, Beeptool Comm. & Integrated Services Limited, Virtual Farm, SBSC. eMed Diaries, Peach Water Consulting, Social Lender and FINT.
Facebook in partnership with CcHub yesterday launched NG Hub to collaborate, learn and exchange ideas. Here are four things we learnt from the launch
In the next 6 months, the Google Impact Challenge for Africa will reward 36 non-profits with community impact in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa a total of $6m in grants.
Lidya, a financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for small businesses, has just announced raising $6.9m in Series A funding. This is coming only 14 months after it raised a $1.25m seed round in March, 2017. This latest funding round was led by Omidyar Network, with support from early Paga investor, Alitheia Capital…
In recent times, I have received several emails about updated privacy terms of services from most of the websites and apps that I use. All of them have something to do with GDPR that is taking effect from May 25th, 2018. You too have probably received a few emails like these in your mailbox. GDPR…
The $47.5 million investment in Cellulant not only surpasses that of Flutterwave but has now become the largest involving a Fintech company operating in Africa.
The eventual goal for all students after secondary school is to gain admission into a tertiary institution. But this did not play well for Aboluwarin Kitan-David and Banjo Mofesola Paul who failed unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) several times (five and three times respectively). During this period, instead of being discouraged, they embraced failure by…
The framework has already been laid down by the Lagos state government, as the structure for the hub would be ready within the next 18 months.
Port Harcourt based startup, Touchabl finally puts pen on paper to an agreement that allows it secure seed funding of $20,000 from Hubly, formerly Genesys Tech Hub.
Akure TechUp innovation challenge winner, TREP which is run by two undergraduate students (Taofeek Afeez and Alayande Abiola) of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), emerged as this year’s national finalist of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Nigeria. Microsoft Imagine Cup Nigeria is an annual competition organised by Microsoft corporation for undergraduate students in a…
Here are some ways brands can still leverage on the massive audience of the forth-coming FIFA World Cup in Russia to grow their brand.
the decision to expand the outsourcing centre aspect of its operation, according to Oluwadaser David, nHub founder, is premised on the increasing uptake in request for its remote developers
The fund, which is estimated between $500,000 and $1 million, will further enable Easyshop Easycook to optimize its online platform and existing farm-to-last-mile supply chain
TradeDepot has reportedly received $3 million in funding from Partech, a venture capital firm specializing in information and communication technologies, and operating in Europe, Paris, Berlin, as well as San Francisco in the US.
Last week, Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, visited Lagos on a personal tour of its tech community. But his visit his visit was disappointing as what follows is a list of matters that were surprisingly not addressed.
A group of former staff members of Payporte claim that the company has failed to pay their salaries since November 2017 despite being a major sponsor of BBNaija. Could these allegations be true?
Placements journey to Washington evokes memories of a humble beginning, one that many “now established” startups in the tech industry can relate with.