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Founded in 2019, Dellyman is an aggregator platform for small scale logistics providers and aims to provide efficient same-day delivery to merchants.

Despite challenges from the ban on motorcycles and COVID-19, OPay says it is having its best year ever. Mobile payments has grown 40% since January.

The digital world represents a new opportunity for insurance. The growing adoption of mobile devices could increase the reach of insurance products. Slowly, disruption is coming to Nigeria’s sluggish insurance industry.

Using a rules-based co-investment model, the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance will invest between $25,000 and $100,000 in startups founded by the Alliance’s members, called Harambeans.

Editor’s note: The headline of this article has been updated to reflect the fact that it speaks primarily to a difficulty in accessing capital. A previous headline read; “African startups have had a good Q1 2020; except those led by women.” African startups did well in Q1 2020 in terms of funding. Considering the current […]

Tomato Jos, a Nigerian agric company, has closed a Series A round of €3.9 million. The funding will be deployed into the processing and distribution of tomato products, the company has said.