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Afrikrea wants to power African e-commerce with ANKA

Ivorian marketplace startup, Afrikrea, will leverage its new platform ANKA to disrupt e-commerce in Africa and across the globe.

Ajua Acquires WayaWaya for an undisclosed sum

Ajua, a customer experience platform, accquired WayaWaya, a Kenya-based digital service that enables borderless banking and payments for an undisclosed sum.

Audiomack partners MTN Nigeria to enable music lovers stream at zero data cost

Audiomack and MTN Nigeria have unveiled the Audiomack+MTN Data Bundle program. The program will offer MTN subscribers music streaming at zero data cost.

Okra raises $3.5 million to scale its Open Finance operations

This comes just under a year after Okra closed its $1m pre-Seed round with only TLcom Capital participating in the round. It brings Okra’s total funding at seed to $4.5m.

Egyptian grocery delivery startup, Appetito raises $450,000 seed round

Appetito, a grocery delivery startup has raised $450,000 in an Ahmed Al Alola seed round.

Andela announces engineering talent expansion to 37 countries

Andela announced the expansion of its global engineering talent. The expansion will allow their clients to tap into regional expertise.

Piggvest and uduX to democratize investment in Musician’s project

Music streaming app, uduX launched PopRev to allow fans invest and make profit in musician's project.

Nigerian Fintech Platform, Appzone, raises $10 million Series A Funding

The round was led by CardinalStone Capital Advisers alongside V8 Capital, Lateral Investment Partners, Constant Capital, and Itanna Capital Ventures,

Lagos Nigeria —The Rise of the African Tech Hub

Silicon Valley investor, Derek Distenfield writes about his visit to Lagos and his thoughts on Africa's fastest-growing tech hub

UmojaHack Africa hackathon connects 1000 African students on Zindi

UmojaHack Africa 2021, a machine learning hackathon has ended with over 1000 African students participating in the hackathon via Zindi.

Jobberman partners eTrade Alliance to grow Nigeria’s e-commerce sector

Jobberman is partnering the USAID funded Alliance for eTrade Development II (eTrade Alliance) to help develop Nigeria's thriving e-commerce industry.

Savyt, new digital savings and investment app comes out of beta

Savyt is a digital savings and investment app that wants to help Nigerians earn better returns on their savings and investments.