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03.10.2024 | South-African startup Scale raises $700,000 to help fintechs issue cards | Scale, a South African startup that provides card issuing orchestration to fintechs has raised $700,000 in pre-seed funding. Its platform connects fintechs to banks, issuer processors, KYC and payment networks, enabling them to launch cards... |
02.10.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #75: The Reel Deal on Video Assessments | Will you take a video assessment for your dream job?
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02.10.2024 | Nigerian agritech startup Winich Farms raises $3 million pre-series A funding | Winich Farms, a Nigerian agritech company that supplies farm grain produce to retailers, has raised $3 million in pre-series A funding to expand its order fulfillment centres and improve its technology. This is the company’s second funding ... |
21.09.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #74: Is Uploaded Intelligence a moonshot goal? | What happens when humans and machines merge?
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20.09.2024 | Nigeria's Data Centre Revolution: Citidata's Bold Expansion | Nigeria is on the brink of a data revolution. With a mere 14 data centres, the country lags behind its global counterparts. But Citidata is ready to change the game. The company plans to build six new Tier III edge data centres in Ogun and ... |
19.09.2024 | Citidata expands Nigeria’s data centre market with six new data centres | With only 14 data centres nationwide and growing demand for storage, Citidata Centre plans to build six Tier III edge data centres in Ogun and Lagos state in the next two years.
Edge data centres—small data centres close to users and their ... |
18.09.2024 | Ecobank Kenya lost “millions of dollars” after card flaws exposed it to fraud | Ecobank Kenya lost millions of dollars between 2020 and 2022 after weaknesses in its card operations team exposed the lender to potential fraud by merchants and staff, an internal report seen by TechCabal showed.
The report, by a task force... |
17.09.2024 | Regfyl, a Nigerian fraud detection company, raises $1.1million to expand team and build new compliance product | Regfyl, a Nigerian company that provides digital identity verification and fraud detection tools to businesses, has raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding. The startup will use the funding to strengthen its sales, engineering and customer ... |
29.08.2024 | Electric motorcycle maker Ampersand raises $2 million to expand in East Africa | Ampersand, a Rwandan electric motorcycle manufacturer, has raised a $2 million Series A extension to expand to other East African countries. It brings the company’s total funding to $21.5 million.
The funding saw a mixture of new and existi... |
24.08.2024 | How Yinka went from fashion to CX lead at Flutterwave | This creator had three big career changes!
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11.10.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #43 – How Smarketers Hub helps marketers | Every marketing talent is welcome here!
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04.10.2023 | 🚀Entering Tech #42: Building a career in content marketing | And where you can learn content marketing too.
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25.09.2023 | Next Wave: Africa’s investors have their work cut out for them | Cet article est aussi disponible en français
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One of the biggest news stories last week, at least in Nigerian tech circles, was my colleague’s (Ngozi Chukwu) reporting about Payday, the virtual card a... |
12.09.2023 | Next Wave: Africa is years away from adopting eco-friendly transportation | Cet article est aussi disponible en français
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Legislators and electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers often do not disclose their motivations for promoting the climate change agenda in a continent that co... |
07.08.2023 | Next wave: Providing liftoff for Tunisia’s tech talent | Cet article est aussi disponible en français
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In Tunisia, raw talent and a tight-knit community of builders, entrepreneurs and tech workers could create Africa’s axis for deep tech. Bu... |
01.08.2023 | Trade Lenda Fair announces former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, and deputy governor of Kwara state as guest speakers | Trade Lenda Fair, Nigeria’s premier SME gathering, is thrilled to announce the participation of two distinguished leaders as guest speakers for the upcoming event. Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, and the Deputy Governor of Kwara State,... |
27.06.2022 | Wimbart Office Hours Four Launches for African Startups | Pan-African PR & communications mentorship programme for tech start-ups expands to add legal, business and consumer influencer/social experts to speaker line-up
Wimbart, the tech focused public relations agency that specialises in Afric... |
02.12.2021 | The Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition returns: Showcasing and rewarding Nigerian students breaking barriers with technology | The Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition (PAADC), Nigeria’s largest annual science and technology-centered innovation challenge organized for undergraduates by undergraduates, would be hosting the grand finale for the fifth edition ... |
14.07.2021 | Nigerian event ticketing platform Tix Africa closes 6-figure pre-seed round to scale | Tix Africa is an event technology platform that helps event organisers harness granular data from attendees, reducing costs and maximising revenues in the process. The app provides tools and services that help event organisers efficiently p... |
08.07.2021 | Traffic tech in Lagos, Tix Africa’s pre-seed, Lydia’s $8.3m pre-Series A | Share this article:
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07.07.2021 | Ticketing platform, Tix Africa closes six-figure pre-seed round to scale its products | Share this article:
Self-service ticketing platform, Tix Africa has closed a six-figure pre-seed round to scale its event apps. The company also plans to expand operations to Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Egypt in H2 of 2021.
This raise will be... |
04.12.2020 | Something interesting is happening in Nigerian Music-Tech | I was one of the winners for the first Nigerian Music-Tech Innovation Challenge and if the pitch event had been a physical one, I imagine I would have been dressed differently. More respectably. But there I was last Wednesday with a t-shirt... |