A connector’s network can span the continent. Supplier eligibility still depends on the company and its records, with South ...

Pan-African fintech startup Taja has surpassed 50,000 users and is now processing millions of dollars in transaction volume each month, two years after launching its cross-border payments platform.

Ugandan startup XenFi is helping internet service providers (ISPs) and Wi-Fi hotspot operators sell internet access, manage customers and collect payments via mobile money from a single platform.

African technologists and entrepreneurs are applying blockchain in innovative ways, creating a new financial infrastructure for the continent with wide-ranging benefits, including for the humanitarian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...