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.

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 ...

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

Egyptian prop-tech startup Aqar Exit has secured an investment of EGP10 million ($183,000) from businessman Ayman Mamdouh Abbas, executive chairman of Intro Holding Group, in return for a 10 per cent ...

Nigerian startup ECS Network is looking to bring long-term structure to competitive gaming in Africa, offering a league system with divisions, promotion and relegation, player statistics and team ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

South African digital lending infrastructure startup Kuunda has completed a US$5 million secondary share sale led by E4E Africa, returning capital to early investors while bringing the investment firm ...

Kenyan cross-border payments startup GTXN has been acquired by UK-based digital asset platform Luno. Founded in 2022, GTXN provides collection and payout infrastructure across corridors linking ...

Kenyan energy leasing company Solarise Africa has been awarded EUR1 million (US$1.12 million) in grant funding from the Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund (EEP Africa) to take its solar ...