Startups

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  Healthcare, Startups

  Kenya’s Ilara Health cuts staff as funding crunch forces restructuring

  Opeyemi Kareem

  25th September 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Startups

  Nearly one million Nigerian retail shops are invisible to big brands; Lengo wants to fix that

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  24th September 2025

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  Healthcare, Startups

  Clarrio.ai is betting that your data can predict your next health crisis before it strikes

  Opeyemi Kareem

  24th September 2025

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  Startups

  Banking on phone loans, Kenya’s Watu targets $340 million revenue in 2025

  Adonijah Ndege

  23rd September 2025

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  Startups

  7 African startups reimagining fintech, freight, and forex trading

  Opeyemi Kareem

  19th September 2025

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  Startups

  AgoraVisa believes not enough African top talent is immigrating

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  18th September 2025

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  Corrections, Startups

  Correction: 5 startups rethinking money, mobility, music, and more

  Opeyemi Kareem

  12th September 2025

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  Startups

  Alami Capital’s LaunchPad targets funding gap for African women-led startups

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  12th September 2025

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  Startups

  SefRel Shop’s mission to make it a thing of pride to ‘buy Nigerian’

  John Adoyi

  11th September 2025

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  Startups

  Zimbabwean ChatCash enters the ‘conversational commerce’ chat

  Sakhile Dube

  5th September 2025

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  Startups

  Nigeria’s Approovia takes aim at Microsoft and Oracle with locally built no-code AI stack

  Frank Eleanya

  4th September 2025

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  Analysis, Startups

  Neexa AI’s Ethan Bampeire on building a startup in Uganda

  Adonijah Ndege

  2nd September 2025

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  Cryptocurrency, Startups, Web3

  AyaHQ is raising $10 million to build a Web3 talent ecosystem

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  27th August 2025

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  Startups

  Cardtonic is building a super app for everything gift cards, gadgets, and payments 

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  23rd August 2025

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  Assistive Tech, Startups

  Signvrse is pushing for real-time sign language interpretation

  John Adoyi

  21st August 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Startups

  Using AI, these 5 African startups make assistive tech more accessible

  John Adoyi

  18th August 2025

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  Day 1-1000, Startups

  “You need believers more than résumés”: Day 1-1000 of Pharmarun

  Faith Omoniyi

  16th August 2025

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  Startups

  7 African startups rethinking bookings, AI, credits, and commerce to watch

  Faith Omoniyi

  15th August 2025

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  Delve into AI, Startups, Venture Capital

  What do investors want to see in African AI startups?

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  14th August 2025

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  Startups

  Antler selects 24 founders to join inaugural cohort

  Faith Omoniyi

  13th August 2025

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  FinTech, Startups

  A financial tool for South Africa’s gig workers left out of formal banking systems 

  Sakhile Dube

  11th August 2025

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  Startups

  “Culture isn’t what you say, it’s what you allow”: Day 1-1000 of Haul247

  Faith Omoniyi

  9th August 2025

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  People, Startups

  Leon Kiptum, fintech executive who believed in people and purpose, dies at 44

  Adonijah Ndege

  5th August 2025

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  Startups

  Update: DigiTax gets technically approved to expand into Nigeria

  Kenn Abuya

  4th August 2025

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  Day 1-1000, Startups

  “I didn’t know if Tix had a future. But I knew I wanted to survive”: Day 1 to 1000 of Tix 

  Faith Omoniyi

  2nd August 2025

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  Events, Startups, Venture Capital

  Lagos to Tokyo: Global startup lessons from Iyin Aboyeji and Akio Tanaka

  Ngozi Chukwu

  1st August 2025

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  Events, FinTech, Startups

  LemFi CEO shares origin story and lessons for founders at Pitch2Win

  Ngozi Chukwu

  1st August 2025

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  Companies, Startups

  Lipa Later sought $5 million from UK lender two weeks after entering administration

  Adonijah Ndege

  30th July 2025

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  Healthcare, Startups

  Duniya Healthcare is digitising medicine supply chains to reach Zambia’s most remote clinics

  John Adoyi

  29th July 2025

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  Ecommerce, Startups

  This Mastercard-backed startup says it will be AfCFTA’s implementation engine

  Ngozi Chukwu

  29th July 2025

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  Startups

  Atsur is solving African art’s provenance problem with blockchain

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  24th July 2025

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  Startups

  Weeks after Copia’s collapse, co-founder, top executives quietly registered new startup

  Adonijah Ndege

  23rd July 2025

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  Startups

  M-KOPA lawsuit alleges racial disparity in employee equity, firm says claim is baseless

  Adonijah Ndege

  22nd July 2025

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  Corrections, FinTech, Startups

  Correction: WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  4th July 2025

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  Analysis, East Africa, Startups

  “Uganda isn’t our side bet”: How Greenhouse Capital is rewriting its rules for Africa

  Adonijah Ndege

  3rd July 2025

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  News, Startups

  Voice tech startup Intron launches new AI models amid broader sector expansion

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  30th June 2025

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  Startups

  “People made this happen, not me”: Day 1-1000 of Lendsqr

  Faith Omoniyi

  28th June 2025

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  Startups

  African startups undervalued globally due to poor storytelling, report says

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  26th June 2025

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  Startups

  “I don’t think I’ll ever sell to anyone”: Day 1-1000 of Auto24

  Faith Omoniyi

  21st June 2025

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  Government, Startups

  Uganda’s tech sector has “prepared the bride,” now it wants a dowry

  Adonijah Ndege

  20th June 2025