Funding into Nigerian and other African countries’ startups is expected to fall to $3bn by the end of 2023, sealing what has been a bad year for startups. This will be a $1.5bn shortfa… Read More
Mental disorders are among the leading causes of disability in the world. One in four people (about 25% of the 7.7 billion people on earth) will be affected by mental or neurologic… Read More
In today's newsletter, we bring you news about VFD's plans to list on the Nigerian stock exchangePaystack’s new offline payments solution.📰 The Weekend Brief#1 VFD Group to lis… Read More
Effective next month, South Africa and Ghana have inked a visa waiver agreement for individuals holding ordinary passports.“Travellers may transit through, depart from and stay in the… Read More
Sony Group Corporation ("Sony") has launched “Sony Innovation Fund: Africa”, a $10 million fund to invest in seed to early-stage startups in Africa's entertainment industry, incl… Read More
August saw the formation of a Kenyan parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the operations and activities of Sam Altman's crypto initiative, Worldcoin, within the nation. Just las… Read More
Nigeria has long been recognized for its pool of young and ambitious population. A huge percentage of this young population is dominated by those who want to study abroad. A survey exp… Read More
Nigeria has dropped two places on the Digital Quality of Life Index. The annual study which is curated by Surfshark ranks 121 countries by their digital well-being based on five core pillars… Read More
The Nigerian government says it plans to collaborate with the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) to stimulate startup listings. “We want to prioritise the ability of our technology compan… Read More
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A fintech business called Kuda, sometimes known as Kuda Technologies, has operations in Nigeria and the… Read More
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Flutterwave is in the news again this morning. The payment startup has launched Swap to digitise FX processes for Nigerians. The new product which is backed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (C… Read More
In early 2022, ex-Andela and Flutterwave co-founder Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, in an interview with TechCrunch, discussed a moonshot project he was working on: Talent City, explicitly designed for l… Read More
An Africa-focused remittances platform, Lemfi, recently said it has raised $33 million in a Series A round led by Left Lane Capital. Lemfi said it will use the capital raise to “expand… Read More
In June, we reported that Moniepoint is planning to leverage M&A for its next growth stage following the appointment of Ross Strike as its Head of M&A and Investor Relations. Also, d… Read More
You will be absolutely right if you described this week as “the week of appointments”. From 'Bosun Tijani's appointment as Nigeria’s minister of communications, innovation… Read More
Obi Ozor, the co-founder and CEO of Kobo360, a pan-African logistics startup, has been appointed as the commissioner of transport in Nigeria’s Southeastern state, Enugu. Obi was sworn… Read More
Remedial Health, a Nigerian startup digitizing pharmacies and bringing efficiency to the pharmaceutical value chain, has raised $12 million Series A equity-debt funding, to scale operations… Read More
To build a competitive and fast-growing economy, South Africa urgently needs to create a much more enabling environment to support entrepreneurship and startups — which is also ne… Read More
Africa’s insurance market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% between 2022 and 2028, reaching $120 billion. Though seemingly impressive, the insurance ind… Read More
In this letter, we explore: the growth of Nigeria's telecom industryMTN's plan to invest $3.5 billion in Nigeriathe first Indian Institute of Technology Campus outside IndiaAnd other notewor… Read More
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Glade, a fledgling Nigerian fintech startup backed by Techstars, experienced an internal breach, according to two sources familiar with the matter, reports TechCabal. These sources revealed… Read More
We are starting the week with a special shout-out to one of our top partners, Geegpay who have recently launched their Mastercard and Visa virtual dollar cards. Not only do they have close b… Read More