Fifty-eight African tech startups raised just shy of US$583 million in funding in the third quarter of 2026, making it the most successful quarter of the year so far and boosting the chance that ...

A Kenyan High Court has ordered Copia Kenya, the e-commerce company that raised over US$120 million to serve consumers outside the country’s major cities, into liquidation after more than two years of ...

Cameroonian startup lensX has launched an Alibaba-style online marketplace connecting businesses, vendors and customers across Africa, with augmented reality (AR) shopping on its longer-term roadmap.

Egyptian startup Paymob, the leading payments infrastructure service provider in the MENA region, has secured US$35 million in a pre-Series C funding round to support its ongoing expansion across the ...

Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative designed to help African health-tech startups scale and commercialise their offerings, announced four strategic partnerships between ...

South African startup Exten AI has developed an AI-native platform that lets entrepreneurs with no coding skills build working software applications just by describing them in everyday language.

At 19, Wendy Therisanyo Keabetswe received a government award after being recognised as one of Botswana’s top national GCSE achievers. The opportunity gave her an early entry point into ...

Ghanaian agri-tech startup Complete Farmer has secured a US$2.4 million convertible loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC)  to scale up and finance inputs and agronomy services for ...

Kenya-based Spiro, a leader in two-wheel transportation and battery-swapping, has banked an additional US$18 million in debt funding from Africa Go Green Fund (AGG), a climate-focused debt fund ...

Startup and technology event Latitude59 is returning to Kenya for the fourth year, with applications now open for the Kenya Pitch Competition.

Five35 Ventures, an Africa-focused, gender-lens investment vehicle backed by the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund, has completed its first portfolio exit, generating a 3.5x multiple on ...

African SME-focused business education company StuckInProfit has partnered with the Africa–Azerbaijan Cooperation (AFAZ) to launch a three-week virtual professional and enterprise development ...