Little declares a war to overthrow Uber and Taxify in the game. Little, the taxi-app firm, which is also in partnership with Kenyan telecom giants, Safaricom has just sold less than 10% of the company for over 300,000,000 KES to unnamed Indian investor. According to a report which was released in September last year by the CEO of the company, …

We Met WeCashUp last year at the TechCrunch startup Battlefield Africa,  a startup disrupting the Payment platform over Africa. As a Universal Payment Platform, its enables digital companies around the globe to accept any Cash and Mobile Money payments on their web and mobile apps via a single REST API integration. Focusing on helping online companies to get paid online in …

Zimbabwean Startup, Courier City is a Zimbabwean owned Canadian-based tech startup looking to build a person-to-person courier service aimed at disrupting the traditional model of shipping documents and parcels across the world, an industry that has made companies like DHL, FedEx, and UPS billions of dollars,  is broadening their reach as they expand their shipping network to Nairobi, Kenya. They’ve sent out a …

After announcing Late Last year that its set to launch a Hub in Africa: Facebook has made that come to life. NG-HUB, a partnership between Facebook and CcHub Nigeria today unveiled NG_HUB in Lagos.  NG_HUB is the first flagship community hub space in Africa. NG_HUB is Aimed at attracting the best talent and driving innovation in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem, these are all designed …

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 …

Global biopharmaceutical firm and Viva Technology partner Sanofi has announced the 10 African startups selected as finalists in its Sanofi Afric@Tech initiative. The finalists are set to pitch their health innovations before a panel later this month at startup conference VivaTech which will be held in Paris between 24 and 26 May. The forum will for the firs time feature a track dedicated to African innovation, …

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, …

Social impact investor Oikocredit has made a € 1 million convertible loan to Inyenyeri, a fuel utility company providing clean and environmentally-friendly cooking solutions in Rwanda. The announcement was made on 2nd May at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Lisbon, Portugal. Inyenyeri’s fuel and stove solution cut smoke and toxic fumes by more than 90% compared to traditional …

Egyptian’s number one job listing startup WUZZUF  has raised a $6m series B funding led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD), Sweden-based Vostok New Ventures, US firm Endure Capital and UK-based Kingsway Capital. The Funding is marked as the second largest funding round an Egyptian startup has raised after SWVL  $8M Series A Funding. WUZZUF is now planning …