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Lessons from MPesa for Africas new VCrich fintech startups

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps 500M in Bettercom at a 6B valuation

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

SoftBank leads 150M round for Fireworks shoppable video

Vodafone confirms merger talks with Three UK in a no cash deal to scale up in 5G

Indias Awfis raises 30M to grow its coworking spaces business

EduMe raises 20M to scale its corporate learning platform targeting gig workers and other deskless employees

Paack pulls in a 225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its Ecommerce delivery platform

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Forto raises 240M in funding round led by Softbank taking its valuation to 12Bn

MoEngage lands 25M for its mobilefirst customer engagement platform

SoftBankbacked Indian startup Oyo to cut 5000 jobs globally

Startups Weekly: SoftBanks second act

SirionLabs raises 44M to scale its contract management software

AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services

Microsoft launches Edge Zones for Azure

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

SoftBanks Vision Fund is preparing to invest 1 billion in Grab

Karius raises 165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases with a blood draw

Spirable refuels with 74M to serve more personalized video ads in the US

SoftBank reportedly preps a package to take control of WeWork parent company

SoftBankbacked construction giant Katerra said to be shutting down after raising billions

Loon and SoftBanks HAPSMobile team with Airbus China Telecom and more on stratospheric cell networks

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

WhatsApp brings its Business API to the cloud to speed adoption

Chinas Jaka Robotics fueled by Saudi Arabias Prosperity7 in global push

Internet connectivity projects unite as Alphabet spinout Loon grabs 125M from SoftBanks HAPSMobile

SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure company Pyxis One as it starts year with new name

Peak raises 75M for a platform that helps nontech companies build AI applications

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

Lowcode integration platform Digibee raises 25M Series A

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

Funnel a nocode tool for marketers to organize disparate data sources raises 66M in preIPO round

CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into ecommerce infrastructure startups

Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps 500M in Bettercom at 6B valuation

Cuckoo Internet closes Seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market

Twitter leads call for EU lawmakers to think beyond big tech

Karius raises 165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases in a drop of blood

Vision Fund startups Fanatics and Coupang unite to sell US sports merch in Korea

Untitled Ventures joins the scramble for Russian Eastern European startups with a 118M warchest

Giftgiving mobile app Goody nabs more capital to scale in time for the holidays

Softbank leads a 120 million round for insurance startup Lemonade

How SoftBanks Vision Fund turned losses into gold this summer

Telecom operators in India warn people of coronavirus outbreak share tips

Losses at SoftBanks Vision Funds have consumed nearly all their historical gains

SoftBanks 100 million diversity and inclusion fund makes its first bet in health Vitable Health

Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises 17M to scale across MENA