Tech in Africa

26 Feb 2026 - Lagos’ smart city push: fiber rollout, metro and waterways, AI surveillance and energy projects — practical entry paths for tech companies via…

26 Feb 2026 - Lagos’s 6,000 km fiber rollout (by 2027): $200M for state network, 85% within 5 km, 5x faster internet, smart cameras and IoT for city services. The…

26 Feb 2026 - Fido Ghana, a digital financial services provider, has secured $5.5 million in debt financing from Symbiotics, according to company announcements.…

26 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s State Department for ICT and the Digital Economy met with Amazon LEO representatives to discuss satellite broadband connectivity, according…

26 Feb 2026 - Nigeria and the European Union signed a science and technology cooperation agreement in Abuja, according to official statements. The agreement was…

26 Feb 2026 - M-KOPA Nigeria has released its first Impact Report, announcing over ₦230 billion in credit unlocked for over 1 million customers, becoming M-KOPA’s…

26 Feb 2026 - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) (www.AfDB.org) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have signed a $16.61 million…

25 Feb 2026 - How digital tools and embedded payments are turning Africa’s informal shops into efficient, credit-ready businesses with inventory, bookkeeping and…

25 Feb 2026 - Overview of Rwanda’s booming fintech scene: eight startups transforming payments, lending, savings and health insurance amid policy reforms and…

25 Feb 2026 - Chisom Uma not only made the switch from front-end engineering to technical writing but also pivoted to documentation engineering, adding design to…

25 Feb 2026 -  How Modern Construction is Transforming Dental Clinics into Smart Medical Spaces Modern dental clinic design starts with the first seconds a…

25 Feb 2026 - Analysis of 2026 fintech deals, lead investors, and the policies that make Kigali a fast-growing fintech hub in East Africa. The post Rwanda Fintech…

25 Feb 2026 - Overview of Africa's 2026 AI laws, startup compliance risks, and opportunities from sandboxes, funding, and localized AI solutions. The post AI…

25 Feb 2026 - Spiro, an electric mobility company, has raised $50 million (KES 6.5 billion) in debt financing, according to company statements. Afreximbank…

24 Feb 2026 - Data hosting has been an international business for a long time, but in recent years, a growing question about how to approach it has arisen, with…

23 Feb 2026 - Grey , a provider of cross-border payments solutions, has expanded its business banking offering to include USD business accounts, bulk payments, and…

23 Feb 2026 - Kenya raised $1.04 billion in total startup funding in 2025 — the most capital any single African market has attracted since 2022. But the headline…

23 Feb 2026 - For eight consecutive years, South Africa watched from behind as Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt took turns leading Africa’s venture capital rankings. In…

23 Feb 2026 - Cape Town-based venture capital firm HAVAÍC has announced the third close of its African Innovation Fund 3, securing over $30 million in commitments…

23 Feb 2026 - Araxi Limited, formerly Capital Appreciation, has agreed to acquire an 80% stake in Pay@ Group for ZAR 1 billion ($62.3 million) through its…

23 Feb 2026 - WafR, a Casablanca-based retail fintech, has raised $4 million in an oversubscribed seed round co-led by LoftyInc Capital, Attijariwafa Ventures, and…

18 Feb 2026 - Something structural is shifting in how African tech companies raise money, and most of the conversation about African startup funding is missing it…

18 Feb 2026 - After two bruising years of decline, African tech funding is back. According to Partech Africa’s 2025 Africa Tech VC Report, total investment in the…

17 Feb 2026 - Egyptian e-commerce platform Breadfast has raised $50 million in a pre-Series C funding round backed by Mubadala Investment Company, the World Bank’s…

17 Feb 2026 - Terra Industries, a Nigerian defense technology company building autonomous security systems for African critical infrastructure, has raised an…

17 Feb 2026 - Total funding to African tech companies reached $3.2 billion in 2025, recovering from $2.2 billion in 2024 and surpassing the $3 billion recorded in…

16 Feb 2026 - Beltone Holding has completed its acquisition of Baobab Group through subsidiary Beltone Capital for €197.6 million, acquiring 100 percent of the…

16 Feb 2026 - Tactful AI, an Egyptian customer experience platform, has raised $1 million in pre-Series A funding co-led by Foras AI and M Empire, with…

16 Feb 2026 - Jumia ceased operations in Algeria in February 2026, according to its full-year 2025 financial report. The exit continues the eCommerce company’s…

13 Feb 2026 - Noah, a global payments infrastructure provider, and Payd, a financial operating system for African professionals, have announced a partnership…

13 Feb 2026 - Jesutomiwa Salam’s story doesn’t start in a bootcamp success montage. It starts in the kind of isolation that either breaks curiosity or turns it…

13 Feb 2026 - Spiro, an electric motorcycle company operating in Africa, has obtained a $7 million loan from US-based climate fintech financier Nithio to fund…

13 Feb 2026 - Aruwa Capital Management has secured a commitment of up to $8 million from the International Finance Corporation for its second fund, Aruwa Capital…

11 Feb 2026 - Kenya-based venture firm Delta40 has secured $20 million to scale financing for early-stage startups across Africa, with support from the Soros…

11 Feb 2026 - The Democratic Republic of Congo has entered into an agreement with a US investment firm to provide AI-powered geological analysis aimed at improving…

9 Feb 2026 - In recent years, Nigeria has quietly become one of Africa’s most active retail trading markets. What began as interest in forex and crypto…

9 Feb 2026 - Africa hosts an estimated US$29.5 trillion in mine-site mineral value, representing about 20% of global mineral wealth, yet captures only a fraction…

9 Feb 2026 - Mobile money has reshaped how millions of Africans send, receive, and store value. Yet for many users, access to online payments beyond local…

9 Feb 2026 - The loudest conversations in tech right now are about intelligence. Bigger models. Faster inference. Products that can reason, write, search, and act…

9 Feb 2026 - Africa’s digital landscape is evolving fast. Smartphone penetration is rising, data costs are falling, and users are no longer satisfied with surface…

6 Feb 2026 - Lula, a South African fintech company founded in 2014 by Trevor Gosling and Michael Foley, has secured ZAR 340 million (~USD 21 million) in funding…

6 Feb 2026 - Applications are now open for the 2026 Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Program. This three-month hybrid accelerator program is designed for…

5 Feb 2026 - The Government of Rwanda has signed a historic expansion agreement with Zipline, marking the first milestone under Zipline’s recent $150M pay-for-…

4 Feb 2026 - In Africa’s fast-growing tech ecosystem, communities are often the first real interface between talent and opportunity. They introduce people to new…

4 Feb 2026 - The Republic of South Africa has today officially acceded to the Establishment Agreement of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s…

4 Feb 2026 - Nigeria has unveiled a new social networking service called LekeeLekee, created by the team behind ARISE and THISDAY media group, with its launch…

4 Feb 2026 - Google, collaborating with research institutions across Africa, has introduced WAXAL, an extensive open-access speech dataset aimed at improving AI…

4 Feb 2026 - Qualcomm has launched enrollment for the latest Make in Africa Startup Guidance Initiative. The programme offers young enterprises critical…

4 Feb 2026 - Over the past ten years, Africa has become one of the world’s fastest-expanding technology markets, driven by widespread mobile and digital uptake…

4 Feb 2026 - Yakeey, a Moroccan prop-tech startup, raises US$15 million Series A to advance Africa’s real estate transaction network. Launched in 2023 by Karim…