Advertisement

Johnstone Kpilaakaa

Johnstone is a journalist covering innovation and social responses in Africa. He is 2024 MTN Media Innovation Fellow at School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University in Nigeria. He was formerly a senior reporter at Condia.
News

Nestcoin secures $6.45 million pre-seed capital to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption

Nestcoin, a Lagos-based crypto-focused startup, has raised $6.45 million in a pre-seed round.

News

Crowdyvest embarks on debt recovery process to enable payout to investors

Following its inability to meet up with its financial obligations to investors, Crowdyvest has embarked on a debt recovery process to enable the refund of overdue payments.

Newsletter

BD Insider, Letter 98: Africans are world-class

BD Insider, Letter 98 covered James Manyinka appointment as a senior vice president at Google, the #YoutubeBlackVoices Creator Class of 2022 and Binance CEO's letter to Nigerians.

News

Disrupt Africa releases report on African tech startups funding in 2021

The African Tech Startups Funding Report explored the important details about the over $2.148 billion in 800+ deals that were raised by African startups in 2021 — the number of funded startups grew by 42.1 per cent on 397 in 2020.

Funding

TLcom secures first round of its $150 million fund to back 20 African startups

TLcom has announced a first close of $70 million for its $150 million Africa focused tech fund to invest in 20 early-stage startups on the continent.

Spotlight

How African startups can apply for the Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator Program

The Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator Program will enable the development of the open metaverse by investing in 30 to 40 blockchain startups a year, up to $250,000 in each startup.

News

Ghana-based fintech OZÉ raises $3 million pre-Series A

OZÉ, a Ghana-based fintech startup that focuses on scaling small African businesses through digitized operations and affordable capital has raised a $3 million pre-Series A round.

News

Uber unveils bike-hailing service via UberMoto in Ibadan

Uber has launched UberMoto, a two-wheeler alternative in Ibadan with a 100 Naira minimum fare offering riders a 78 per cent lower-cost alternative.

Spotlight

Meet the African startups participating in Y Combinator’s 2022 Winter batch

These African startups are among the over 230 startups that will be participating in the Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch. Ten African companies participated in the last Winter batch.

Insider

BD Insider, Letter 97: Africa completes QED’s jigsaw

In this letter, we covered Netflix plan to support African creatives with a $1 million scholarship fund, QED appointment of two Nigerians, Carry1st $20 million seed extension.

News

Dojah joins Y Combinator W22 cohort, embarks on pan-African expansion

Dojah, a unified KYC and digital onboarding solution company will participate in the Y Combinator Winter 2022 (YC W22) cohort

Spotlight

How API fintech companies are powering Africa’s consumer ecosystem

An API is a set of functions that allows applications to access data and interact with external software components, operating systems, or microservices.

Advertisement