Justina Salami

A reporter for Condia. Beats are news and development. Studied History and International Relations. She loves reading nonfiction, especially books on leadership, history, and innovation. If she weren’t writing or researching, she’d probably be dancing and singing. Contact her @justinaize247@gmail.com.
Funding

Ghanaian remittance startup Seevcash gets funding from Stellar

Seevcash, a remittance and peer-to-peer money transfer platform serving diaspora communities between Ghana and the United States, has raised US$333,000 in funding.

Funding

Egyptian edtech, 3C Coding School raises $3million seed round 

3C Coding School, an Egypt-based edtech startup, has secured $3 million in a seed round, its first outside institutional funding in 10 years.

Telecoms

NuRAN is delisting from the Canadian Securities Exchange 

NuRAN Wireless Inc. plans to voluntarily delist from the Canadian Securities Exchange on 4th September, 2026 after 10 years. It maintains it's listing on Nasdaq.

Level Up

How Afolabi Sokeye 10x’d his income in one year

"I was earning about ₦40,000 a month in my final year. In the space of that one year, 2024, I was able to change that."

Telecoms

MTN Group puts 30% stake in IHS up for sale after approval in principle

MTN Group plans to sell a 30% stake in IHS Nigeria to local investors as part of the condition set by FCCPC to acquire the majority of the company.

Tyms partners with Seedstars to bring AI-native accounting to emerging market entrepreneurs

Tyms Inc., the AI-native accounting platform partners with Seedstars to bring AI-native accounting to emerging market entrepreneurs.

News

Ventures Platform closes its second fund at $84 million

Ventures Platform has reached the final close of its second institutional fund, VP Pan-African Fund II, at $84 million.

AI

Talksign launches marketplace to solve sign language AI’s data problem

Talksign has launched a marketplace letting Deaf communities license and sell sign language datasets, tackling AI's biggest accessibility data gap.

Funding

South African AI startup Verascient raises $1.2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round

Verascient, a South African AI startup, has raised $1.2 million (R19.5 million) in its first funding round. The oversubscribed round was backed by several notable investors.

Level Up

Level Up: He failed medical school. Now he helps global founders communicate clearly

"My advice for early-stage founders is: get one senior comms advisor, not necessarily a full firm, and build a small internal comms function first"

News

Juicyway COO, Justin Ziegler, exits startup after four years

Justin Ziegler has left his role as chief operating officer of Juicyway, the cross-border fintech startup after four years. The company is yet to name a replacement.

Africa’s largest prediction market, Bayse, called the Osun state election weeks before it happened

Africa's prediction market, Bayse, predicted Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party would win weeks before INEC's declaration.