In January 2021, Techpoint Africa will be hosting the brightest minds in decentralised finance, blockchain developers, and designers at the Digital Currency Summit 2021. Don’t miss out.…
With Fleets, Twitter wants to help users have safer conversations
Twitter finally joins the disappearing stories wagon like most social networking platforms, and the feature is called Fleets. Twitter hopes that this will encourage safer conversations. What are the p…
Kenyan lawmakers want M-Pesa split from Safaricom’s operations
The Kenyan Senate reportedly wants its Largest telecom provider, Safaricom, to be split into two separate firms — Mobile Services and M-Pesa. A move that could have dire effects…
Backed by Ribbit Capital and Bezos Expeditions, Chipper Cash raises $30m Series B funding
Having raised $13.8m in June 2020 and $6m in December 2019, African focused P2P payments startup, Chipper Cash has raised a third round in 12 months. This means the startup has raised $52.2m since lau…
4 months post-launch, Autochek raises $3.4m pre-seed to disrupt Africa’s automotive industry
Founded in August by Etop Ikpe, Autochek Africa has secured $3.4m in a pre-seed round. Led by TLCom and 4DX Ventures, the startup wants to disrupt Africa’s automotive industry with its technolog…
Why Safeboda is leaving Kenya to focus on Uganda and Nigeria
After a 5-year run in the East-African market, Ugandan-founded bike-hailing startup, Safeboda has announced its exit from Kenya. This may have resulted from the effect of COVID-19 among other unconfir…
TalentQL raises $300k pre-seed led by Lagos-based investment firm, Zedcrest Capital
Launched this month with the premise to hire, develop, and manage remote talent for global companies, Ile-Ife-based talent startup, TalentQL, has raised $300k in pre-seed funding to carry out operatio…