Applications Open for MEST Africa’s Training Program, Class of 2023
Applications are now open for MEST Africa’s flagship Training Program, Class of 2023. A twelve-month…
Monthly Archives: February, 2022
Egyptian funeral services platform SOKNA raises $1m seed round
Egyptian startup SOKNA, which offers end-to-end funeral services to honour the deceased and ease the…
Egypt’s Swvl raises additional $21.5m PIPE funding ahead of Nasdaq listing
Egyptian mobility company Swvl has raised an additional US$21.5 million in private investment in public…
Ugandan fintech startup ChapChap secures funding round
ChapChap, a Ugandan fintech startup that creates reliable financial profiles for MSMEs, has secured a…
50% of African tech’s $2bn funding pot went to fintech startups in 2021
Africa’s fintech sector is a funding magnet, with just shy of half the more than…
Best App To Trade Your Gift Cards in Nigeria
Gift cards are digital assets that are created to serve as an alternative method of…
Nigeria’s Reliance Health raises $40m Series B funding round
Nigerian e-health startup Reliance Health has announced the completion of a US$40 million Series B…
Kenyan e-health startup Afya Rekod raises $2m seed round
Kenyan e-health startup Afya Rekod has closed a US$2 million seed round to help it…
Ugandan moto-taxi app SafeBoda transitioning to “super app” with added services
Ugandan moto-taxi app SafeBoda has become the latest startup in the African mobility space to…
SA auto-tech Carscan receives follow-on investment worth $1.3m
South African startup Carscan, a leading AI and AR app active in the auto-insurance space, …