Startups

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  News, Startups

  Exclusive: Chpter’s Flutterwave deal opens 11 new markets for WhatsApp-based selling

  Kenn Abuya

  19th June 2025

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  Startups

  South Africa’s LovCash bets on blockchain to digitise cash-heavy trade sector

  Sakhile Dube

  17th June 2025

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  Startups

  15 Student-Led Startups Solving Real-World Problems

  Opeyemi Kareem

  12th June 2025

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  Agritech, Climate, Startups

  How Releaf Earth is using biochar to repair soils for Nigerian farmers 

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  11th June 2025

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  Startups, The BackEnd

  The Backend: Why your refunds take forever and how Recital is fixing it

  Faith Omoniyi

  10th June 2025

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  Startups

  “I saw the crypto ban on social media, like everybody else”: Day 1–1000 of Busha

  Faith Omoniyi

  7th June 2025

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  Regulation, Startups

  Kenya to scrap tax breaks on startup employee stock options in 2025 Finance Bill

  Adonijah Ndege

  5th June 2025

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  Startups

  Botlhale AI bets big on South Africa’s multilingual call centres

  Sakhile Dube

  4th June 2025

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  Startups

  Nigerians have tried and failed to curb dangerous policing; can a blockchain tool help? 

  John Adoyi

  3rd June 2025

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  Startups

  “We made zero revenue in our first three years”: Day 1-1,000 of Izesan!

  Faith Omoniyi

  31st May 2025

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  Startups

  Startups on Our Radar: 10 African startups rethinking ride-hailing, credits, and banking no one’s talking about yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  29th May 2025

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  Startups

  How data obsession became MyFoodAngels’ secret sauce in the first 1,000 days

  Faith Omoniyi

  24th May 2025

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  News, Startups

  Onafriq appoints former PPRO chief Simon Black as board chair

  Adonijah Ndege

  21st May 2025

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  Startups

  This South African AI-powered edtech helps students land top jobs

  Sakhile Dube

  19th May 2025

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  Startups

  “Everything is against you”: The first 1,000 days of PaidHR

  Faith Omoniyi

  17th May 2025

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  Startups

  10 African startups opening markets, cutting CO2 & seafarming no one’s talking about yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  15th May 2025

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  Kenya, Startups

  Kenyan edtech Craydel expands to Rwanda, taps Nigerian talent in Pan-African push

  Adonijah Ndege

  15th May 2025

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  Startups

  South African fintechs Paymenow, TymeBank, Omnisient make FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list

  Sakhile Dube

  14th May 2025

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  Startups

  Moniepoint, PalmPay, OmniRetail, Paga make FT Africa’s fastest-growing companies list

  Faith Omoniyi

  14th May 2025

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  News, Startups

  Roam, M-Kopa top Kenyan firms on FT Africa’s fastest-growing companies list

  Adonijah Ndege

  14th May 2025

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  FinTech, Startups

  CBN licences in Nigeria: types, costs & what fintechs should know

  Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe

  13th May 2025

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  Features, Long Reads, Startups

  This SaaS company wants Nigerian & African tailors to ditch ‘paper and pen’ operations

  Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

  10th May 2025

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  Startups

  The $10 tax tool saving Zimbabwean entrepreneurs from fines and fees

  John Adoyi

  9th May 2025

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  Startups

  In a sparse fintech landscape, two new startups prepare to make their mark in Botswana 

  Sakhile Dube

  1st May 2025

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  News, Startups

  Landmark ruling on unequal pay puts Kenyan startups, SMEs on notice

  Adonijah Ndege

  29th April 2025

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  Startups

  Africa’s most interesting startups you haven’t heard of—yet

  Faith Omoniyi

  23rd April 2025

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  Startups

  Trademark dispute between Paystack and Zap Africa tests Nigeria’s IP laws

  Muktar Oladunmade

  18th April 2025

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  Startups

  South Africa’s Zimi secures $320,000 to test turning EVs into power stations

  Sakhile Dube

  17th April 2025

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  Features, Startups

  Ghana’s Affinity Africa wants you to carry a full-fledged bank in your pocket

  Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

  14th April 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Startups

  Ex-Interswitch and Microsoft employees are building AI-powered sales assistants for Africa

  Frank Eleanya

  14th April 2025

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  Startups, The BackEnd

  No, PaidHR is not a fintech. It’s following a global HR-tech playbook

  Faith Omoniyi

  12th April 2025

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  Startups

  In Zimbabwe, Avalon Health’s AI drops patient wait times from 45 to 20 minutes

  Sakhile Dube

  9th April 2025

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  Startups

  Kenya’s Chpter spins off Pluto, a WhatsApp API suite, as subsidiary

  Kenn Abuya

  2nd April 2025

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  FinTech, Startups

  Paystack welcomes consumers to its ecosystem with Zap, a transfer app

  Muktar Oladunmade

  25th March 2025

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  Startups

  How to build a credit score in South Africa, the Pokkit way

  Sakhile Dube

  19th March 2025

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  Startups

  South Africa’s rising electricity costs fuel a wave of energy startups

  Sakhile Dube

  13th March 2025

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  Startups

  How South Africa’s Tregter is using WhatsApp chatbots for data collection

  Sakhile Dube

  10th March 2025

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  Cryptocurrency, Startups

  How crypto startups survived the ban in Nigeria

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  19th February 2025

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  News, Startups

  Bento Africa  “temporarily” halts operations after rehiring staff to handle backlog

  Ngozi Chukwu

  10th February 2025

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  Startups

  Marasoft denies fraud allegations but fails to share evidence, blames “disgruntled” ex-employees

  Muktar Oladunmade

  3rd February 2025