The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) recognizes the top 10 finalists for its final event in Accra, Ghana on 16 November 2019. The finalists were chosen from a pool of 10,000 candidates from 50 African nations. The 10 will pitch their business to the eCommerce business mogul, founder of Alibaba Group and the Jack Ma Foundation, Mr. Strive Masiyiwa founder …

Driving innovation firm Cellulant has today reported the dispatch of Tingg, a customer installment, business and budgetary administrations application. In Kenya, Tingg offers outsider help from utility installments for water, power, broadcast appointment and PayTv through associations with; KFC and Simbisa Group, (Pizza Inn, Chicken Inn and Creamy Inn) to offer Tingg Food, and with Go Beba to offer gas …

In this era everything is going cloud, reducing your paper work and space usage, making us work at the comfort of our homes and remote places, managing business and handling eras with ease and speed.  A Kenyan Startup ScopicAfrica is changing the dynamics by introducing it’s megabot cloud solutions dubbed Epesi Cloud. Epesi Cloud platform has the following products : …

Google has partnered with Pluralsight and Andela to offer 30,000 scholarship opportunities and 1,000 grants. This scholarships and grants are aimed to certify African techies on  Mobile Web, Associate Cloud Engineer and Google Associate Android. The scholarships and grant opportunities are part of the Grow with Google initiative The main aim of the Google Africa Certifications Scholarships is to help …

MDaaS Global, a Lagos-based medtech startup that builds and operates diagnostic centres in Nigeria, has raised just over $1-million in equity funding, reveals a US Securities and Exchange Commission filling made on (1 April). The filling states that up to 12 investors were involved in the round which commenced on 15 March. According to the filling the total offering amount was …

End-to-end distribution platform Brimore has announced that it has raised $800 000 in a seed round co-led by Algebra Ventures and Endure Capital. In a statement today (2 April) the Cairo-based startup said 500 Startups, Flat6labs and some undisclosed angel investors also participated in the round. Brimore’s platform provides manufacturers with direct access to local communities who can both use and promote the products. The startup was founded …

Morocco-based Outlierz Ventures, an early-stage VC fund backed by private investors from Silicon Valley, Middle East and Africa has made five investments in fast growing tech-enabled companies across five different markets. The startups include, Morocco’s WaystoCap, Kenya’s Sokowatch, UK’s Asoko Insight, France’s TousFacteurs, and Egypt’s MaxAB, The startups received investment tickets range between $50k and $500k in Seed stage and …

By now you’ve likely experienced the convenience of services such as Uber Eats. For those that haven’t, there’s talk of a new player entering that market, We’re talking about the company formerly know as Taxify, Bolt. The ride-sharing service has today announced plans to expand Bolt’s services into food delivery. “Combined with our technology, efficient operations and thousands of drivers …

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Nigerian fintech startup TeamApt has raised $5.5 million in capital in a Series A round led by Quantum Capital Partners. The Lagos based firm will use the funds to expand its white label digital finance products and pivot to consumer finance with the launch of its AptPay banking app. Founded by Tosin Eniolorunda, TeamApt supplies financial and payment solutions to Nigeria’s largest …