Johnstone Kpilaakaa

AVPA and Investor Flow to promote impact investments in Africa

Pan-African network for social investors, African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) and Investor Flow announced a strategic partnership to further promote impact investing across Africa.

Klasha launches in Ghana to facilitate cross border payments and e-commerce

Klasha, a startup that simplifies borderless payments for commerce in Africa is now in Ghana

BD Insider 82nd: the gender digital divide, the Nigeria Startup Bill, Digital Quality of Life ranking

In the 82nd issue of the BD Insider, we examined the theme for the 2021 international day of the girl child, the Nigeria startup bill, digital quality of life ranking and other issues.

6 communities that are building the digital generation of girls in Africa

In commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child, we curated a list of the girls-focused tech communities in Africa

Payday secures $1 million pre-seed fund to build “Paypal for Africa”, eyes Rwanda as its African HQ

Payday, an African fintech startup has secured a one million dollars pre-seed fund to continue with its efforts to enable swift global payments for Africans.

Adora Nwodo writes foundational book on cloud engineering

Adora Nwodo's book 'cloud engineering for beginners' explores the concept of cloud computing and roles that exist in the sector.

Nigerian startups dominate the 2021 Google’s Black Founders Fund for Africa

Nigeria top the list of African startups selected for the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund — part of a $175m long-term commitment toward economic opportunity for Black business owners.

MEST in partnership with Mastercard announces MEST Scale Accelerator for SMEs in Ghana

MEST Scale is a venture acceleration program designed by MEST, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, to help Small and Medium Enterprises strengthen their operations, address key technology gaps, and increase their ability and capacity to scale their growth

4 takeaways from the 2021 Digital Quality of Life research

The Digital Quality of Life research focuses on the quality of digital wellbeing in 110 countries (90% of the global population). In its third edition, Nigeria ranked 82nd out of 110 countries.

BD Insider 81st: Zero to Scale with Joshua Chibueze, Andela, Gokada’s expansion, startup equity

This is a blog copy of the 81st version of our weekly newsletter, BD Insider. Subscribers get to read it first and can take action based on it

Updated: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram apps down for millions of users worldwide

Across the world, users of Facebook-owned social media networks including, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger are experiencing a downtime.

Designers can now access free Nigerian mockup images

Instead of relying on the frequently used foreign mockup images, Check DC has created Nigerian mockups that can be used for local brand messaging.