Uber Eats, the food delivery business of ride-hailing giant Uber, has acquired South African-owned restaurant technology company orderTalk in what is being billed as a significant exit for Cape Town-based venture capital firm Knife Capital. The deal, the terms of which have not been disclosed, will allow Uber Eats “to streamline workflows by directly integrating with leading point-of-sale systems”. (Listen to …

Honor, the fast-growing, comprehensive home care company for older adults, has raised $50 million in Series C financing, which will support the rapid expansion of the Honor Care Network, a first-of-its-kind national network of home care agencies and other providers. Honor recently added seven home care agency partners to its Care Network and is actively seeking partners in new and existing …

Since its launch,  Lydia has made over 1,500 business loans to help MSMEs in farming, hospitality, logistics, retail, real estate, technology, and health get the capital they need to grow their operations. Lydia has just announced raising $6.9m in Series A funding led by Omidyar Network, with support from early Paga investor, Alitheia Capital (via the uMunthu inclusive growth fund), Bamboo Capital Partners, and …

Janngo announces its first funding round to launch digital solutions tackling challenges faced by African SMEs. Janngo demonstrates its ability to attract both African and international capital with a pool of experimented investors including : Mulliez Family, a family office with a long-term patrimonial vision ; Clipperton, a leading independent Investment bank fully focused on high growth Technology companies and backed by …

Announced Earlier by  Disrupt Africa, Kenya’s Pawame has Raised $543k through CrowdFund ; “We have been fortunate to date to attract supportive, visionary equity investors and now for the first time, we have successfully crowdfunded a significant amount of debt finance through Trine, which bodes well for the future,” said Maurice Parets, CEO of Pawame. To date, Pawame has connected …

Kenya, with a population of more than 4 million people has recently been viewed as one of the disadvantaged countries in the world. Despite random and daily motivation she gets from European and America leaders, it is still evident that the country is lagging behind in a number of sectors. The most important sector that if we need to pull …

Earlier this week I was reading an article by Adetunji from Co-Creation Hub Nigeria, you know the power of thoughts a teenager has after hearing a motivational talk from a young billionaire? that’s how I was feeling but in a good way. in His article on Medium, Adetunji highlighted some specs that really caught my eyes, I wouldn’t delve in so much but …

The Rise Fund, a global impact investing fund managed by growth equity platform TPG Growth, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a stake in Cellulant, a leading digital payments provider that reaches 40 million people across 11 African countries. The Rise Fund is investing alongside Endeavor Catalyst, Satya Capital, Velocity Capital & Progression Africa. The deal …

Nigeria’s Shazam for picture’s Touchbl, has secured seed funding of US$ 20,000 for product development and aggressive marketing. “Since launching in public beta, we have collected some interesting feedback and have significantly modified our technology and value proposition. We will build upon our technology using this feedback” he said. The funding comes from Hubly (formerly Genesys Tech Hub), through their Genesys Start zone program, …

South Africa based IoT platform Sensor Networks has secured another round of funding with UDS 1.03 Mn led by 4DiCapital, Sanari Capital and Asisa ESD.  “As a private equity firm, our focus is on businesses scaling and executing well through their growth stage. Despite Sensor Network’s ‘young age’, the company has gained significant traction with its products, and we’re confident that now is the right time …