Tech in Africa

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…

17 Aug 2026 - Meta, in partnership with the the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy (FMCIDE), through its 3 Million Technical…

15 Aug 2026 - The Nigerian government has opened applications for a new accelerator programme offering selected technology startups access to as much as $350,000…

15 Aug 2026 - Cape Town-based fintech startup Zazu has secured seed funding from Launch Africa Ventures as it pushes to become the go-to financial operating system…

15 Aug 2026 - Moment, a payments infrastructure company serving enterprise merchants across Africa, has closed a $22 million Series A round to scale its…

15 Aug 2026 - Seychelles-based financial technology company Fusepay has launched Fuse360, an artificial intelligence-powered business management platform designed…

15 Aug 2026 - Botswana Tech Fund 1 has reached a $6.7 million first close as it prepares to invest in technology companies supporting digital growth across…

15 Aug 2026 - Gabon’s Ministry of Digital Economy, Digitalisation and Innovation has delayed the closing event of KIMBA Connect’s debut edition, after…

15 Aug 2026 - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has committed $24.2 million in first-loss guarantees through partnerships with Kenyan lenders 4G Capital…

15 Aug 2026 - African investment firm Silverbacks Holdings says its cumulative investment in mobility company Moove has surpassed $37 million following its…

15 Aug 2026 - AHL Venture Partners has secured a further $15 million debt facility for its Africa Credit Fund, increasing total capital raised by the fund to $45.5…

15 Aug 2026 - Kenyan used-car marketplace Peach Cars has secured ¥600 million in debt financing from Japan Finance Corporation and Shoko Chukin Bank, giving the…

15 Aug 2026 - South African startup Tennsa has closed a raise of just over ZAR1 million (roughly $61,000) from Oakvale Invest, making it the first company to…

15 Aug 2026 - Africa50 has landed fresh commitments from two European development finance institutions for a fund built to get climate infrastructure projects…

15 Aug 2026 -  Over the last 4 years, AI usage had grown at 270% and tripled in the last year alone, as this year’s survey by Gartner suggests. The growth…

14 Aug 2026 - Kenyan cryptocurrency startups are considering moving some operations to Mauritius and South Africa as new licensing requirements impose capital…

14 Aug 2026 - The United Nations Development Programme has opened applications for upcoming cohorts of its pan-African timbuktoo HealthTech LaunchPad, targeting…

12 Aug 2026 - Africa’s tech ecosystem is having a quiet but consequential rethink about what actually counts as progress. Rather than chasing another record-…

7 Aug 2026 - Dutch investment manager Climate Fund Managers (CFM) has locked in ZAR 3 billion (about $183 million) in the opening close of its South Africa-…

5 Aug 2026 - Yellow Card, the Africa-born stablecoin infrastructure provider, has raised $40 million in strategic equity funding to expand its push into bank-…

5 Aug 2026 - Lagos-born mobility company Moove has crossed into unicorn territory, closing a $250 million Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion.…

3 Aug 2026 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, working with the Smart Africa Secretariat, has opened the third edition of the Innovate…