Tech in Africa

16 Sep 2026 - Signed in Kigali on 4 September, on the sidelines of the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026, the Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism is a…

16 Sep 2026 - Cairo’s recycling economy works. It just doesn’t keep receipts. Egyptian waste technology startup Bekia has closed $765,000 in seed funding to build…

15 Sep 2026 - Early-stage African startups can now apply for the SiGMA Africa Startup Pitch, which will give selected companies an opportunity to present their…

15 Sep 2026 - Africa’s artificial-intelligence startup ecosystem is producing more founders and new companies, but fewer young businesses are securing the early…

15 Sep 2026 - Tanzanian technology founders have been invited to apply for the Africa Blockchain Festival Fellowship Program 2026, an initiative designed to…

14 Sep 2026 -   African artificial intelligence startups have a new opportunity to access funding, technical resources and business support through the Askya…

14 Sep 2026 - Egypt-founded fintech infrastructure company Synapse Analytics has secured $13 million in Series A funding to expand its artificial intelligence-…

14 Sep 2026 - Senegal is placing sovereign cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence among the central priorities of its digital transformation programme as…

14 Sep 2026 - Spiro, Africa’s leading electric mobility company, has signed a partnership with Yadea, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric two-wheelers, to…

13 Sep 2026 - South Africa-based Airnergize Capital has reached the final close of its first fund at R3.89 billion, approximately $239 million, as it looks to…

13 Sep 2026 - Casablanca-based legaltech startup Charikaty has completed a pre-seed financing round at a valuation of €3 million, equivalent to roughly $3.4…

12 Sep 2026 - Swedish development finance institution Swedfund has committed a $20 million loan to the AfricaGoGreen Fund as part of an effort to increase…

12 Sep 2026 - Kenyan asset-financing company Watu has secured a $7 million debt facility from AHL Venture Partners, giving the business additional capital to…

11 Sep 2026 - Morocco has moved forward with a MAD 347 million financing initiative aimed at increasing venture capital available to digital startups, as the…

10 Sep 2026 - Deloitte is planning to invest a further $80 million in its Innovation Hub in Egypt over the next three years as the professional services firm…

10 Sep 2026 - South Africa’s Grindstone Ventures has launched a R500 million, approximately $31.2 million, venture capital fund targeting technology-driven African…

10 Sep 2026 - African EdTech accelerator Injini has launched an eight-month venture-building programme designed to help early-stage teams develop artificial…

10 Sep 2026 - The International Finance Corporation is considering an equity investment of up to $4 million in Gigmile, a mobility-financing company that helps…

10 Sep 2026 - Nigerian mobility company Shuttlers has expanded beyond scheduled bus transportation with the introduction of Shuttlers Pod, a pre-booked car service…

9 Sep 2026 - The Federal Ministry of Education has opened applications for the Student Venture Capital Grant, offering student-led ventures up to ₦50 million in…

9 Sep 2026 - African startups closed 44 disclosed rounds worth $100,000 or more in July 2026, raising a combined $102 million. While the number of funded…

9 Sep 2026 - Kenyan electric mobility startup ARC Ride has raised $33.3 million in a mix of equity and asset-backed debt financing to expand its battery-swapping…

9 Sep 2026 -   African startups recorded a sharp recovery in funding activity in August 2026, with 31 ventures securing funding rounds of $100,000 or more…

9 Sep 2026 - Nigeria-based venture capital firm Ventures Platform has raised $84 million for its second fund, giving the investor more capital — and a wider…

9 Sep 2026 - Semiconductor engineering startup ChipMango has raised $1.9 million in seed funding to expand its engineering operations and connect more African…

9 Sep 2026 - Exits MENA has signed an agreement with the existing local management of Avanz Capital Egypt (ACE) to acquire the Egyptian private equity and asset…

9 Sep 2026 - Dutch development bank FMO is preparing a $30 million senior-debt financing package for M-KOPA Kenya Mobility, the electric-motorbike subsidiary of…

9 Sep 2026 - 3C Coding School has closed a $3 million seed round led by MRG Economic Group, with investor Amr Saad and a group of angels joining. Two things get…

9 Sep 2026 - Nairobi-based fintech startup Flowt has completed the first close of its pre-seed funding round as it looks to expand access to working capital for…

7 Sep 2026 - SANDI AI Technologies has won a $50,000 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize at the Africa Food Systems Forum Summit in Kigali, taking the female-led grand…

4 Sep 2026 - Egyptian logistics startup Mylerz has raised more than USD 2 million in a combination of debt and equity to scale its fulfilment and last-mile…

4 Sep 2026 - The DCI says the pair collected cash on a retail chain’s behalf and kept it. Separately, customers have spent months complaining they can’t get their…

4 Sep 2026 - The Accra fintech won four separate awards from the Stellar ecosystem, and it’s using the money to become more than a way to send money home.…

3 Sep 2026 - Mobility technology company Swvl Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: SWVL) has announced strategic private placements totaling approximately $14.5 million,…

3 Sep 2026 - Edge Growth has launched the Edge Impact Fund (EIF) with a first close of R350 million (US$21.9 million), aimed at tech-enabled companies that need…

3 Sep 2026 - Cape Town-founded Verascient closed an oversubscribed $1.2 million (R19.5 million) pre-seed round, its first outside capital, to build the layer that…

3 Sep 2026 - Even with a solid due‑diligence process, buyers of a used car often struggle with incomplete, conflicting or unattributed information on digital…

3 Sep 2026 - GRID 01, a cross-border startup initiative involving AXON Accelerator and the Talal and Madiha Zein AUB Innovation Park, has launched in Lagos with a…

3 Sep 2026 - Two decades after its founding, the Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) partnership opens a new chapter in Seoul next week, with artificial…

2 Sep 2026 - French health insurance company Alan has entered the African market following its acquisition of Senegalese digital health firm Tanel, giving the…

2 Sep 2026 - Global ride-hailing company Uber has announced the closure of its operations in Nigeria, bringing an end to a 12-year presence in the country. The…

1 Sep 2026 - Middle East and North Africa education technology company Abwaab has acquired Egyptian edtech software provider Eduact, expanding its business beyond…

1 Sep 2026 - Black women-owned venture capital firm Mamor Capital Ventures has secured R300 million ($18.8 million) in the first close of its debut technology…

27 Aug 2026 - Kenya’s startup and technology ecosystem has gained a new digital intelligence platform designed to give founders, investors, policymakers and…

24 Aug 2026 - The Africa Business Investment Summit (ABIS) 2026 opens in Washington D.C. on Thursday, August 27, with roughly $4 billion in African investment…

24 Aug 2026 - Convergence Partners has led a Series C round in Yellow, the asset financing company that sells smartphones and off-grid solar systems on credit…

21 Aug 2026 - Kenya’s Investment Authority (Invest Kenya) has partnered with the East Africa Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) to pull more domestic and…

20 Aug 2026 - South African workforce technology startup Jem has raised $8.4 million in Series A funding to accelerate the growth of its WhatsApp-based platform…

19 Aug 2026 - South Africa has no shortage of promising startups. The harder part is helping enough of them become businesses that later-stage investors are…

17 Aug 2026 - Following a highly competitive open call for proposals that attracted over 800 applications from 64 countries, 85 per cent of which were from Africa…