Tech

15 June 2022 - Oslo-based Glint Solar has raised $3 million in a seed funding round.  The company specializes in fusing satellite data and AI into a software package that can identify and analyze potential solar project sites in a given region.  The fresh influx of…

15 June 2022 - MainOne has announced that they are going to host the 7th edition of their flagship event, Nerds Unite.

15 June 2022 - MultiChoice has announced the financial results of its FY22 wherein they saw a delivery of steady margins.

15 June 2022 - London-based regulatory tech platform Clausematch has raised $10.8 million in funding. The round was led by New York-based Lytical Ventures, with participation from the Sony Innovation Fund and Flashpoint.  The company plans to invest the new money in…

15 June 2022 - Egypt-based AI startup DXwand ,an Omnichannel conversational AI and digital assistants tool has closed a pre-Series A investment round of $1 million led by Huashan Capital, US-based VC firm SOSV, with commitments from angel investors. DXwand will use…

15 June 2022 - Amsterdam-based TestGorilla has secured $70m in Series A funding, co-led by the London-based venture capital firms Atomico and Balderton Capital.  The funding brings the company’s total investment to $80m following previous investments from Notion,…

15 June 2022 - Brazilian payment platform Zippi announced a $16 million Series A round led by US fund Tiger Global and followed by Y Combinator, Volpe Capital, Rainfall Ventures, Globo Ventures, Hummingbird, Mantis, MSA Capital, Soma Capital, and founders of…

15 June 2022 - Ozon, a Mexican startup that buys, fixes, and sells motorcycles, announced it raised $25M in debt and $4M in a seed round. While Architect Capital provided the debt capital, the funds that participated in the seed round were 1984.vc, K50 Ventures,…

15 June 2022 - MFS Africa, a digital payments network has secured $100 million in equity and debt, additional funding that takes its Series... Source

15 June 2022 - Mexico City-based fintech Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million. General Atlantic doubled down on its $70 million financing last July during Klar’s Series B. Other participants in the funding round include Prosus…

15 June 2022 - On June 14, Meta, the owner of Instagram, will roll out new parental controls for the whole site in the UK. They include the choice to establish daily time limitations for the app that range from 15 minutes to 2 hours, after which a dark screen would…

15 June 2022 - Intracom Telecom has announced that they have started the deployment of a fixed wireless system for its open mining operations in Africa.

15 June 2022 - BYD on Tuesday unseated Volkswagen and became the world’s third-biggest automaker by market capitalization. The milestone came at the same time when the Chinese automaker also announced plans to supply batteries to Tesla. This is an unprecedented high…

15 June 2022 - Orange Santé has announced a partnership with DabaDoc in an effort to develop a platform dedicated to e-Health.

15 June 2022 - Cellulant has announced a partnership with Jambojet in an attempt to give rewards worth 2 Million in rewards to its customers.

15 June 2022 - Launch Africa is solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.  The fund has over 10-year track record of venture building and backs startups across multiple sectors, regions, and products that tackle…

15 June 2022 - Microsavings platform Siply has raised $19 million as a part of a fresh round of funding led by Qi Ventures. The round also saw participation from existing investors LetsVenture and Jito. Angel investors also took part in the round, including Vivek…

15 June 2022 - The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) launched the Annual 2021 Report on The State of Human Rights and Freedoms in... Source

15 June 2022 - Oppo Kenya introduced us to the Oppo Reno 7 series a little over a month ago, with two models available in Kenya (Oppo reno 7 4G and Oppo reno 7 5G). Another launch event is expected before the end of the week when we will learn more about the Oppo…

15 June 2022 - SaaS buying platform Spendflo raised $4.4 million in seed funding from Accel India and founder-focused venture partner Together Fund, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The round saw participation from BoldCap and Signal Peak Ventures, along…

15 June 2022 - Aupa Monyatsi has been appointed as the new CEO of Letshego Group. He has held the same role in an... Source

15 June 2022 - Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) Registrar General, Mercy Kainobwisho has won the inaugural Africa Brand Leadership Award. The award recognises... Source

15 June 2022 - Adobe, a giant computer software company, will be releasing a free-to-use version of Photoshop that will be available on the web to everyone. The software company has started testing the free version in Canada, according to The Verge. This service that…

15 June 2022 - America’s Mastercard and Togo’s Ecobank Group yesterday announced a new partnership to connect millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to Mastercard’s Farm Pass – a digital platform that makes it safer and easier for farmers to sell their…

15 June 2022 - MFS Africa, a digital payments network has secured $100 million in equity and debt, additional funding that takes its Series C round to $200 million. The round was led by African investment manager Admaius Capital Partners. Investors from its first…

15 June 2022 - Bank of Uganda (BoU) is finally open to the idea of cryptocurrency businesses participating in its Regulatory Sandbox. They have... Source

15 June 2022 - Moroccan e-commerce startup, Chari, came out as one of the big winners at the Africa CEO Forum 2022. This was... Source

15 June 2022 - Uber Sub-Saharan Africa has today revealed it has been running a Safety Sessions Programme in partnership with the South African Police Service (SAPS) to help address the safety concerns raised by drivers and delivery people on the Uber platform.…

15 June 2022 - Oppo is bringing its flagship Find X5 series to Kenya. The company plans to unveil this series on Thursday, 16th of June and has already sent media invites confirming the same. This will be the second time Oppo will be bringing the Find X series to…

15 June 2022 - The construction industry in Kenya is so big that it is among the few globally that expanded amidst the Covid lockdowns of 2020. And it is not showing any signs of slowdown with the country’s data agency — the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics —…

15 June 2022 - Nigeria has revealed its latest arsenal in its war to regulate social media. Months after it lifted its 7-month ban on Twitter, the Nigerian government has set out to regulate social media platforms with a new Code of Practice. Read more in #…

15 June 2022 - Ademidun brings considerable experience in senior management, strategic advice and investments across the world. She is the Managing Director of the Emerging Markets Group of TotalEnergies Ventures (TEV), the venture capital arm of the global energy…

15 June 2022 - While many governments in Africa have made welcome progress toward digital transformation in the last year, more work needs to be done towards offering transparency, digital inclusion, and the protection of digital rights to citizens across the…

15 June 2022 - While many governments in Africa have made welcome progress toward digital transformation in the last year, more work needs to be done towards offering transparency, digital inclusion, and the protection of digital rights to citizens across the…

15 June 2022 - Remember that one time a colleague or friend asked to borrow your wireless earbuds and you awkwardly declined or grudgingly gave them away and said she could keep them? That you had another pair (a pair you in fact did not have) so it’s fine? Now, here…

15 June 2022 - Wamly, the video interview software startup founded by Francois de Wet in 2018, has secured a 2nd round investment from South African venture capital firm, Knife Capital. The deal sees Davey Gant, Knife Capital partner based in UK, joining the Wamly…

15 June 2022 - T40 Technologies, a tech startup transforming Nigeria’s intercity transport and logistics industry, has secured a pre-seed funding round. Led by its CEO, Folarin Olulana, the company has built a cloud-based transport and logistics operating system…

15 June 2022 - Mouloukou Sanoh has recently joined Adaverse as the new Investment Manager. He shall be focused on investing in the most promising Web3 companies in Africa, from Seed to Series A. About Adaverse Adaverse is a Cardano Ecosystem Accelerator that…

15 June 2022 - Nowadays modern cars usually have 7 or 8 camera modules, some electric cars can go up to 12. Tesla uses several cameras to make its self driving features possible and LG used to supply most of them. However, new reports suggest that Samsung will take…

15 June 2022 -   WafR is a retail technology startup based in Morocco that enables businesses to increase their market share by broadcasting intelligent promotions to grocers, ait has successfully raised a $1million seed round in its recent funding round.  WeLoveBuzz…

15 June 2022 -                         Source Boomplay, an online streaming app for African songs and artists owned by the Chinese, has begun operations in Côte d’Ivoire. It expanded its operations into Ivory Coast by opening an office in Abidjan. This move is…

15 June 2022 -   Source People who have strong connections to others ultimately have more power. Therefore, ensuring that traditionally underserved populations, such as those living in villages and senior citizens, young people, and women, have access to digital…

14 June 2022 -             Source The use of blockchain technology can make certain aspects of the financial market easier to navigate, whether this pertains to the production of goods or the trading of those goods on an exchange. Nigerian Exchange Limited is almost…

14 June 2022 - E-Commerce conglomerate Amazon has announced that it will start using drones to deliver products later this year. The company plans to start drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, following approval by the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA)…

14 June 2022 - Egypt’s first network of angel investors announced its investment on June 12 of an undisclosed amount in Nigerian fintech company CredPal, according to a statement sent to TechCabal.

14 June 2022 - Finally, Meta, formerly Facebook and the Cupertino brand, have decided to release a new feature that should make transferring data between Android and iPhone possible. WhatsApp is an end-to-end encrypted messaging software, and switching platforms...

14 June 2022 - In the past few years, OPPO has steered away from launching its flagship devices in the country and stuck with launching the Reno and A series of smartphones. The latest smartphones the company has launched in the country have been the Reno7 series…

14 June 2022 - OPPO is set to unveil yet another smartphone in Kenya. The company has confirmed that it will be launching the OPPO Find X5 in Kenya later this week. “This flagship introduces an advanced camera system...

14 June 2022 - Like many risk assets, African bonds benefited from loose developed country monetary policy over the past decade, which resulted in inflows; however, these have now begun to reverse.

14 June 2022 - Experts at Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky have taken a close look at the phishing pages aimed at potential crypto investors as well as the malicious files that are distributed under the names of the 20 most popular cryptocurrency wallets.…