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Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

Norrsken Foundations hub opens in Rwanda to house 1000 entrepreneurs by next year

Nigerias Okra raises 1M from TLcom connecting bank accounts to apps

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

Africa Roundup: Goldman leads 30M Twiga raise China grows tech influence Jumia weathers lockupexpiry

African payment startup Chipper Cash raises 138M Series A

Breaking down Frances new 76M Africa startup fund

The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to radical courage with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya

SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the worlds next bread basket one solar water pump at a time

Into Africa: tech leaders weigh in on Jack Dorseys planned move to the continent

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming coinvestors

Ultra Red Technologies Builds 3D Printing Business in Nairobi Offering Design and Prototyping Working Toward Clean Water

Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to 143 million

Cathay Capital and AfricInvest to raise 168M Africa VC fund

Africa Roundup: Zimbabwes net blackout Partechs 143M fund Andelas 100M raise Flutterwaves pivot

Kenyas Jumba bags 1M to help operators of hardware stores restock seamlessly

Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz

These startups are locating in SF and Africa to win in global fintech

BasiGo secures 43 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya

Flutterwave denies money laundering and fraud allegations following accounts freeze by Kenyan agency

Partnering with Visa emerging market lender Branch International raises 170 million

Kenyas Apollo Agriculture raises 6M Series A led by Anthemis

Nigerias CcHub acquires Kenyas iHub to create mega Africa incubator

Kenya turns to its mobilemoney dominance to stem the spread of COVID19

MKOPA raises 75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

Nigeria is becoming Africas unofficial tech capital

Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M

Chinas Transsion and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

ImaliPay gets 3M to offer financial services to underserved gig workers across Africa

TLcom Capital closes 71M Africa fund with plans to back 12 startups

TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut So Paulo and Lagos

Daily Crunch: Since December 2021 Bettercom has laid off nearly half of its workforce

Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise 99M in VC

Novastar Ventures becomes 200M African VC fund after 108M raise

Flutterwave denies money laundering and fraud allegations following accounts freeze by Kenyan court

Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa

Google opens product development center in Nairobi the first in Africa

EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding

Sokowatch raises 14M to digitize Africas informal B2B supplychain

Google opens product development center in Nairobi its first in Africa

Africas ridehail markets are hot spots for startups and VC

Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million

BRCK acquires ISPs EveryLayer and Surf to boost Africas public WiFi

Moove raises 105M to scale its vehicle financing product across Asia Europe and MENA

Maramoja has a different take on the ridehailing market in Africa

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa

2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs China goes digital Nigeria becomes fintech capital

African ecommerce startup Jumias shares open at 1450 in NYSE IPO