TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The global chat commerce’s total addressable market is worth an estimated $80 billion and is seen as the third big wave of digital commerce after e-commerce and app commerce markets. As the largest digital platform in the world with more users than the internet’s 4.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Bento , Nigeria’s digital payroll and human resource management platform is expanding to Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda with plans to set up operations in six other markets in Africa over the next one year. Workpay, a Y Combinator startup, is among the 50 enterprises in Africa that received equity-free funding and support from Google.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Insurance lags behind other financial services in the adoption of digital technologies. Granted, a few unicorns have popped up from the modern digital insurance space such as Tractable and Lemonade; however , this sector hasn’t raced to the stage as quickly as say, payments or lending.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

This is a gap that Talk360 is looking to bridge as it creates a new payment platform that will integrate all available payment options across Africa. This product, it says, will open up businesses to the largest pool of localized payment options in Africa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, San Francisco- and Africa-based fintech Pngme has snapped up another $15 million for its financial data infrastructure play. The company is also describing itself as a machine learning-as-a-service platform. Right now, Pngme has three core products for clients in these three markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Zeraki , a Kenyan edtech that has built digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 We have also brought back focus on [the once dormant] digital learning platform, and also tested a number of products like timetabling,” he added. Image Credits: Zeraki.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In Africa, chartering vessels and processing ocean freight can be challenging. A couple of digital freight companies are tackling this problem, like Nigerian-based MVX. What followed was the launch of MVXtransit, a digital freight booking platform, helping cargo owners find deals on moving containers across Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Its platform connects over 6,000 retailers to local and multinational suppliers — such as Namibia Breweries Limited, ABInBev, Bokomo, Coca-Cola, Namibmills — and digitizes orders, payments and logistics. One of the earliest in the space, Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform TradeDepot , raised a combined $110 million in debt and equity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Part of the investment will be used to hire more staff in South Africa and support the commercial expansion to the U.S. CEO Greg Chen founded the company in 2014 came from his 15-year span in the mobile industry, noticing how enterprises in South Africa struggled to target and engage their customers via SMS efficiently.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

On the high level, people moving from cash to digital for the very first time causes more fragmentation. Stitch’s provides solutions for e-commerce companies, marketplaces & platforms and its leading clientele, fintechs. And the last is getting end consumers to link their accounts via these businesses. “On Image Credits: Stitch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. million in pre-Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Nigeria leads the way again with five startups, while Egypt has four, Morocco has two, and Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa each have one. Africa has the lowest insurance penetrations globally. FloatPays (South Africa). Here’s the list of African startups that made it to YC S21 in alphabetical order.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Restaurants who use the management platform also have access to a dashboard that allows them to accept and process orders from food delivery services Jumia Food, Glovo, Bolt Food, and in-store, website, social media channels like WhatsApp. said the CTO in a statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Most of these businesses operated offline until a few years ago when startups brought about digitization by providing infrastructure and a gamut of e-commerce and financial services. Sabi is an attempt at platforming the informal sector and African trade via various online and offline channels. Anu Adasolum (Founder and CEO, Sabi).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. In 2018, Opera, popularly known for its internet search engine and browser, launched the OPay mobile money platform in Lagos. Opera’s Africa fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. without the outsized market of South Africa. The opportunity is massive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. for every successful transaction made via Ozow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Orda , a Nigerian food tech platform that provides a cloud-based restaurant operating system to solve these issues for small, independent restaurants, is announcing that it has secured a $3.4 Our software digitizes the process of those who write things in hand and helps them figure out their inventory management and recipe yields.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

There is a real opportunity for digital healthcare platforms to scale access to team-based care across the region. The pandemic has seen such platforms scale globally, and Africa is not exempt. The pandemic has seen such platforms scale globally, and Africa is not exempt. has no intention of expanding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Talk360’s latest investors include Allan Gray E2 Ventures (AGEV), Kalon Venture Partners, E4E Africa, Endeavor, existing lead investor HAVAÍC and a number of angel investors, including Tjaart van der Walt and Coenraad Jonker. South Africa’s Talk360 raises $4M to build single payment platform for Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to a statement, the funding presents Naked with an opportunity to improve its AI and use it to grow Africa’s insurance market which is worth over $68 billion in annual gross written premiums. South Africa makes up 70% of this market, with an annual gross written premiums market of over $47 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

South African insurtech platform Naked has raised $11 million in a Naspers-led round. This comes barely two weeks after Naspers, via its early-stage tech investment vehicle Naspers Foundry, invested in another South African insurtech platform, Ctrl, in its $2.3 million Series B round. This is where Naked comes in.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The idea for the YC-backed Ghanaian fintech came during the chief executive’s time at OMG Digital, a media company he founded that also got into YC , in 2016. “We The company aims to serve as the “financial operating system” for Africa’s small and medium businesses. And so that’s what we’ve been working on so far.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade. We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

FMCG distributors can onboard retailers in their network on the Duplo platform, collect payments digitally and access real-time insights into business performance. And then it becomes easier for us to digitize how payment moves between retailers and distributors,” he added. Those retailers can become Duplo customers as well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Founded by Kiaan Pillay , Natalie Cuthbert , and Priyen Pillay , Stitch wants to provide full API access to financial accounts across Africa starting from its first market, South Africa. In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Smile Identity said it is “actively fulfilling regulatory requirements to finalize the transaction for the [Inclusive Innovation] affiliated entities in Africa.” Document verification and face recognition and matching comprise Smile Identity’s base-level product that works across Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The general perception of insurance on the continent has been bland for years, and its penetration rate, except South Africa, is subpar. Per a McKinsey study in 2018, Africa’s insurance market stood at a 3% penetration rate; with South Africa excluded, it was 1.12%. In the news today is one such company: Casava.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The Dash team. Image Credits: Dash.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, the founders decided to expand on that vision with a new platform and digital strategy designed to support budding entrepreneurs. But the funding hasnt kept pace with the needs of new firms and ideas, nor expanded beyond the four countries leading Africas startup scene, Kenya, Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

ULesson , an edtech startup based in Nigeria that sells digital curriculum to students through SD cards, has raised $7.5 The founder says that the digital infrastructure gains will allow them to “go online entirely by Q2 this year.”. million in Series A funding. Sim Shagaya’s uLesson African edtech startup raises $3.1M.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And the South Africa-based crowd-solving startup has done that over the last three years they have been in existence. Zindi is a database of data scientists across Africa. During last year’s event the platform attracted about 2,000 students during the event that took place virtually because of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Micro and small businesses in emerging markets still struggle to access digital payments for several reasons. based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. Australia and Asia. he started Nomod as a side project in 2018.

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