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Tix.Africa closes six-figure Pre-Seed round to scale events products

Tix Africa's funding round was led by HoaQ, with participation from a number of private equity investors, and will enable Tix Africa to build its technology to scale its events apps.

TeamApt announces undisclosed Series B funding round led by Novastar Ventures

The round was led by Novastar Ventures with participation from FMO, Global Ventures, CDC, Oui Capital, Kepple Africa Ventures, Soma Capital, and a syndicate of local angel investors

Leading Ghanaian Fintech, ZeePay, completes $7.9 million series A funding round

Zeepay announced that it has completed a fundraise of $7.9 million in its Series A.0 which was a hybrid of both equity and balance sheet funds to support its operations.

Applications open for early-stage Ghanaian Startups to scale their operations through the Mastercard Foundation and MEST Express Accelerator Program

MEST, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation has announced that applications are open for the next two cohorts of the MEST Express Accelerator program.

MDaaS Global raises $2.3m to launch digital health solution SentinelX and expand across Nigeria

The Seed extension led by Newtown Partners via the Imperial Venture Fund with SentinelX set to provide Nigerians with tech-enabled preventive and personalized healthcare

TECNO to re-define PHANTOM as a flagship sub-brand

TECNO, the leading smartphone brand in global emerging market, is said to re-define PHANTOM as its flagship sub-brand, aiming to tackle the premium smartphone market amid an ambitious global expansion plan.

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Content marketing is just not about posting on social media or writing blog posts. There are key principles that will help you give an accurate picture of your business to customers, that is what this article will show you.

FSD Africa Investments invests US$4.5m in Nithio FI, to support the scale-up of off-grid energy access in African markets.

The Funding contributes to Nithio FI’s first raise of US$23 million to scale off-grid energy financing in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

VC4A Venture Showcase alumni raise $180 million, applications for the 2021 program now open

VC4A Venture Showcase, an exclusive program of choice for Africa-focused early-stage investors and hand-picked startups looking to raise their Seed and Series A rounds.

MainOne, West Africa’s Leading Carrier-neutral data center provider to unveil data center in Appolonia City, Accra

MainOne, the leading provider of connectivity, cloud and data center solutions in West Africa is set to launch the Appolonia Data Center of its subsidiary, MDXi.

UK Nigeria TechHub announces the graduation of 10 startups from the iNOVO Accelerator Programme

Designed to empower 10 early-stage Nigerian startups that are solving challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, in January 2021, the UK-Nigeria Tech Hublaunched it’s iNOVO Accelerator Programme for early stage startups building innovative solutions to tackle the challenges caused by COVID-19 across the Education, Agriculture and Health sector in Nigeria.

After doing N1.4 trillion in Agency banking transactions in May, TeamApt wants to “do more” for its users.

In May, the value increased to ₦1.4 trillion ($3.5 bn) with 68 million transactions in volume, and between April 2020 and April 2021, the total value of transactions processed has gone up to $16 billion.