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Nigerias digital payroll platform Bento expands to Kenya Rwanda and Ghana to enter six other African markets in 2022

South Africas Planet42 gets 30M for its car subscription service Mexico expansion

COVID19 and Trump visa ban leave South Africa biotech startup in limbo as it plots move to Seattle

Nigerian data analytics company Terragon acquires Asian mobile ad firm Bizense

Dakar Network Angels begins startup investments in francophone Africa

What we learned from selling a blockchain service to African governments

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

Mass transit group Swvl confirms estimated 100M acquisition of UK startup Zeelo

African incubator MEST has a new MD and 11 fresh startup investments

Swvls 100m acquisition of Smart Bus startup Zeelo is off amid tech stocks slump

Ghanaian fintech Dash raises 328M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

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

What is Andela the Africa tech talent accelerator

HealthLeap raises 11M preseed to reduce malnutrition in hospitals with clinical AI assistant

These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming coinvestors

South Africas DataProphet closes 10M to scale its AIasaservice platform for manufacturers

Chinas Transsion and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

Francophone African super app Gozem grabs 5M to expand and offer more services

Days after pledging to expand internet Ethiopias government shuts it off

Africas top mobile phone seller Transsion lists in Chinese IPO

Norebase raises 1M to allow companies start scale and operate in any African country

SendSprint by exFlutterwave executive hits market with 5 flat fee for all international money transfers

MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast

Naspers announces 300 million initiative to support startups and tech in South Africa

Daily Crunch: After 16 months on the job Bettercom CTO Diane Yu steps down

Sokowatch rebrands to Wasoko as it raises 125M Series B from Tiger Global and Avenir

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

Jumia reports 30 growth in value of goods sold on its platform during Black Friday season this year

Reports say African startups raised recordsmashing 43B to 5B in 2021

The Folklore Group secures 17 million launches fashion B2B ecommerce platform

Meta faces prosecution in South Africa for alleged antitrust breach

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

Churpy raises 1 million to help enterprises reconcile and manage payments across Africa

Ralicap gets backing from global VCs and launches 30M fintech fund for emerging markets

Interswitch to revive its Africa venture fund CEO confirms

Nigerias OnePipe raises 35M to double down on its embedded finance offering

South African Surgeons Perform A Successful Middle Ear Transplant Using 3D Printing Technology

Collaboration Leads to South Africas First Platinum 3D Print

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

Africas top angel Tomi Davies eyes startups and coinvestors

African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises 30M backed by Jeff Bezos

Nigeria is becoming Africas unofficial tech capital

South African crowdsolving startup Zindi building a community of data scientists and using AI to solve realworld problems

Did African startups raise 496M 1B or 2B in 2019

Nigerias Gloong drops consumer ecommerce pivots to eprocurement

South African Defense Company Using Digital Manufacturing and 3D Printing to Build Surveillance and Attack Aircraft

Mechanical Engineer Launches Campaign to Provide 3D Printed Breast Prostheses to 1000 Women in Need

Solar based ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria

MallforAfrica and DHL launch MarketPlace Africa global ecommerce site

Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment