Every few years, the same story plays out. A well-funded company arrives with a playbook that worked in San Francisco, raises a big round on the strength of a market-size slide, and burns through it ...

Nigerian business banking platform Nomba has extended its Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) payments corridor into Zambia, allowing Congolese businesses to pay Zambian suppliers instantly.

Kenyan electric mobility company Spiro has launched its first 100 electric motorcycles in Ghana, introducing its Ekon 450 M1 V3 model and battery-swapping network to the West African market. Spiro is ...

Egyptian ed-tech startup Learning Rockets is helping children from pre-K to Grade 6 learn English through a connected system ...

Kenyan ed-tech startup StudyLabAI has built an AI-powered study platform that turns students' own slides, lecture recordings and notes into interactive study tools, and has signed up more than 90,000 ...

Egyptian prop-tech startup Aqar Exit has secured an investment of EGP10 million ($183,000) from businessman Ayman Mamdouh Abbas, executive chairman of Intro Holding Group, in return for a 10 per cent ...

South African buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform Happy Pay has publicly launched Happy Ads, an AI-powered performance media platform that only charges retailers when a campaign results in a sale.

Nigerian startup ECS Network is looking to bring long-term structure to competitive gaming in Africa, offering a league system with divisions, promotion and relegation, player statistics and team ...

South African ed-tech incubator Injini has launched a new two-year programme that will support 10 early-stage South African edtech startups building solutions that create or support employment ...