Startups

Startups

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

Sakhile Dube

1st May, 2025
News, Startups

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

Adonijah Ndege

29th Apr, 2025
Startups

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

Faith Omoniyi

23rd Apr, 2025
Startups

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

Muktar Oladunmade

18th Apr, 2025
Startups

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

Sakhile Dube

17th Apr, 2025
Features, Startups

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

Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

14th Apr, 2025
Artificial Intelligence, Startups

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

Frank Eleanya

14th Apr, 2025
Startups, The BackEnd

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

Faith Omoniyi

12th Apr, 2025
Startups

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

Sakhile Dube

9th Apr, 2025
Startups

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

Kenn Abuya

2nd Apr, 2025
FinTech, Startups

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

Muktar Oladunmade

25th Mar, 2025
Startups

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

Sakhile Dube

19th Mar, 2025
Startups

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

Sakhile Dube

13th Mar, 2025
Startups

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

Sakhile Dube

10th Mar, 2025
Cryptocurrency, Startups

How crypto startups survived the ban in Nigeria

Emmanuel Nwosu

19th Feb, 2025
News, Startups

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

Ngozi Chukwu

10th Feb, 2025
Startups

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

Muktar Oladunmade

3rd Feb, 2025
Exclusive, FinTech, Startups

Moniepoint, OPay, PalmPay responded to 2024 ban with better data collection and compliance

Muktar Oladunmade

31st Jan, 2025
Acquisitions, Exclusive, Startups

Lemfi completes acquisition of Irish currency exchange Bureau Buttercrane; begins European march

Muktar Oladunmade

29th Jan, 2025
Exclusive, Startups

How Nigerian fintech Marasoft paid salaries with suspected fraudulent funds, trigerring account freezes and employee anguish

Muktar Oladunmade

23rd Jan, 2025
Startups

25 startups to watch in 2025, according to Africa-focused VCs

Faith Omoniyi

9th Jan, 2025
Startups

Top 5 Kenyan startups to watch in 2025

Adonijah Ndege

2nd Jan, 2025
News, Startups, Venture Capital

YC-backed internet provider Tizeti will become the first Nigerian startup to list on IPO-starved NGX

Ngozi Chukwu

13th Dec, 2024
Startups

Nigerian healthtech startup MDaaS begins Francophone expansion with Cameroon

Muktar Oladunmade

11th Nov, 2024
FinTech, Startups

Nigerian fintechs ramp up compliance hiring months after customer onboarding ban

Muktar Oladunmade

31st Oct, 2024
Startups

PaidHR in talks for $1.5million seed round; introduces new cross-border payroll

Faith Omoniyi

21st Oct, 2024
Food Delivery, Startups

Chowdeck “looking at” South Africa and Kenya for possible expansion

Ngozi Chukwu

11th Oct, 2024
Cloud Computing, News, Startups

Okra joins local cloud providers providing affordable alternatives to AWS and Azure

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

7th Oct, 2024
Mobility, Startups

Uber-backed Moove takes its search for profitability to America

Ngozi Chukwu

11th Sep, 2024
Startups

Kenyan e-commerce startup Chpter raises $1.2 million in pre-seed round

Kenn Abuya

2nd Sep, 2024
Startups

Electric motorcycle maker Ampersand raises $2 million to expand in East Africa

Adonijah Ndege

29th Aug, 2024
Startups

End of load shedding tests South Africa’s solar industry

Ephraim Modise

28th Aug, 2024
News, Startups

Exclusive: Hohm Energy in financial distress months after $8m raise

Ephraim Modise

9th Aug, 2024
Startups

Mobius, maker of low-priced SUVs for startups, to shutdown

Adonijah Ndege

6th Aug, 2024
Features, Startups

A profitable union: How banking agents helped OPay and Moniepoint distribute 17 million cards

Muktar Oladunmade

16th Jul, 2024
Startups

Food delivery apps are saving $100,000 yearly by choosing cheap communication apps

Ngozi Chukwu

16th Jul, 2024
Exclusive, News, Startups

Want your rice with a side of ads? Chowdeck is working on an ad product

Ngozi Chukwu

16th Jul, 2024
EdTech, Features, Startups

Mastercard Foundation conference spotlights Africa’s edtech startups

Frank Eleanya

9th Jul, 2024
News, Startups

Peleza merges with YC-backed Prembly to form Prembly Group

Kenn Abuya

3rd Jul, 2024
News, Startups

Nigerian fintech startups could spend over $1 million on KYC address verification

Muktar Oladunmade

6th Jun, 2024