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 ...

Ten African startups have been named semifinalists for the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Circular Economy, and will share US$500,000 in unrestricted funding as they compete for the US$1 million grand prize.

Egyptian agentic AI customer experience (CX) startup Tactful AI has secured investment from Hatem Dowidar, the former group CEO of e&, as part of an extension of its pre-Series A funding round.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 digital lending infrastructure startup Kuunda has completed a US$5 million secondary share sale led by E4E Africa, returning capital to early investors while bringing the investment firm ...