Pan-African fintech startup Taja has surpassed 50,000 users and is now processing millions of dollars in transaction volume each month, two years after launching its cross-border payments platform.

Ugandan startup XenFi is helping internet service providers (ISPs) and Wi-Fi hotspot operators sell internet access, manage customers and collect payments via mobile money from a single platform.

African technologists and entrepreneurs are applying blockchain in innovative ways, creating a new financial infrastructure for the continent with wide-ranging benefits, including for the humanitarian ...

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Egyptian agentic AI customer experience (CX) startup Tactful AI has secured investment from Hatem Dowidar, the former group CEO of e&, as part of an extension of its pre-Series A funding round.

Her Startup, an accelerator for women-led technology startups in Africa, has opened applications for the second cohort of its programme.

Ten African startups have been named semifinalists for the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Circular Economy, and will share US$500,000 in unrestricted funding as they compete for the US$1 million grand prize.

Nigerian business banking platform Nomba has extended its Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) payments corridor into Zambia, allowing Congolese businesses to pay Zambian suppliers instantly.

South African ed-tech incubator Injini has launched a new two-year programme that will support 10 early-stage South African edtech startups building solutions that create or support employment ...

Egyptian ed-tech startup Learning Rockets is helping children from pre-K to Grade 6 learn English through a connected system ...

South African buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform Happy Pay has publicly launched Happy Ads, an AI-powered performance media platform that only charges retailers when a campaign results in a sale.

Kenyan ed-tech startup StudyLabAI has built an AI-powered study platform that turns students' own slides, lecture recordings and notes into interactive study tools, and has signed up more than 90,000 ...