South African startup Credit Builder has secured funding for an innovative pilot to develop Africa’s bespoke financial inclusion solutions. The startup, which is a Pentech Africa Group Holdings Company, is headed up by Co-Founder and Group CEO, Thomas Ngubane. Ngubane is an ex-divisional director within the Standard Bank Group of companies and ex-key individual of …
Zuri Health, a Healthcare Startup from Kenya Wins the Sankalp Africa Awards 2022 Announcing Winners of the 9th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit Awards 2022 Over 2,000 delegates convened for the Sankalp Africa Summit, a hybrid 3 Day Virtual and a 1 Day In-Person event on ‘Mainstreaming Impact’ March 3rd, 2022, Kenya: Sankalp Forum, …
LinkedIn announced today it had entered into an agreement to acquire Oribi, an Israel-based marketing analytics company. As part of the agreement, LinkedIn will also open a new office in Tel Aviv, Israel expanding its international presence and helping to further scale the value it deliver to members and customers across the globe. “We will …
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PayJustNow, a Cape Town-based digital payment platform specialising in Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), has secured an investment from a major fintech player, which will help drive its continuous growth. It has already gained significant momentum and is available at more than 2500 purchase locations. Weaver Fintech, a new division of Homechoice International (HiL), saw …
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Morocco-based transport management software startup, Freterium, has raised $4M in its latest funding round which closed in December. The seed round was led by Partech, with Y Combinator, Flexport, CDG Invest, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and Business Angels from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa also participating. Launched in Morocco in 2020 by co-founders …
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I recently sat down with Conrad Steyn, CTO for Cisco Sub-Saharan Africa, to chat about the state of startups and SMMEs in South Africa and across the continent. Brendon Petersen (BP): Conrad, thanks for joining me. I wanted to chat with you about the startup landscape in South Africa. Last year Cisco opened an in …
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Egyptian proptech startup, Nawy, has concluded its seed funding round securing $5 million in investment led by the Sawiris family office. Nawy is an online real estate platform, founded in 2016 by Mohamed Abou Ghanima, Abdel-Azim Osman, Ahmed Rafea, Aly Rafea, and Mostafa El Beltagy, that facilitates purchasing and selling property. It contains a huge …
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Thndr, the Egyptian digital investment platform, has secured $20 million in a Series A investment round co-led by Tiger Global, BECO Capital and Prosus Ventures. Base Capital, first-minute and existing investors Endure Capital, 4DX Ventures, Raba Partnerships and JIMCO also participated. The new funding will go towards product development and expanding Thndr’s presence across MENA. …
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When was the last time you failed at something, but had fun doing it nonetheless? This was the question Mindjoy posed to Hypertext when we attended a virtual coding session on Thursday afternoon. Mindjoy is a Cape Town-based edtech startup that has set itself the ambitious goal of teaching one million children how to code, …
Mindjoy, the Cape Town-based edtech startup that’s for kids, aims to help one million children discover their superpowers through coding. Founded by Gabi Immelman in July 2021, Mindjoy is tackling one of the sector’s most pervasive challenges – the lack of digital skills development. Mindjoy makes use of Replit, a browser-based development environment that doesn’t …
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