A total of 33 African justice innovators and legaltech startups have made it into the final round of the 2018 edition of the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law’s (HiiL) Innovating Justice Challenge. The Hill Justice Accelerator (HJA), which runs the challenge, announced the finalists in a blog post earlier this month. The accelerator stated that finalists were selected based on their impact, …

Lagos-based advertising technology startup TaxiTV has secured an undisclosed amount of funding in a seed round led by Beta.Ventures as it looks to scale its product, expand to other cities and improve its sales execution. The funding round – which Osiyale says is worth over US$50,000 – is led by Beta.Ventures, while other backers include Collins Onuegbu of Sasware, Sam Senbanjo …

GreenTec, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, will invest an undisclosed amount of money in Bismart to enable the company upscale its digital and online platforms to connect customers to insurance and investments solutions available in the African market. The agreement, announced in Frankfurt, will see Bismart benefit from GreenTec’s expertise and experience in funding start-ups in Africa through capacity building, and …

Make-IT in Africa, an African initiative that is currently operating in Kenya and Nigeria to support entrepreneurs by explaining to them how to access capital and foster on financial opportunities by sharing information. The initiative is also purposely working to match startups and investors by introducing funding instruments and sharing investors directories. Through their partnership with Allied Crowds and Victoria Ventures, …

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 [email protected] 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, …