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ImaliPay raises $3m to offer financial services to underserved gig workers across Africa

The new funds injection will go into expanding its 50-man team, boosting its technology and exploring new markets like Ghana and Egypt.

SabiTeach, CDial and LearnAm emerge as winners of the Lagos Employment Summit Innovation Challenge

SabiTeach, CDial Africa and LearnAm won the top prizes at the Innovation Challenge, a platform created to encourage innovative, tech-driven ideas to create sustainable jobs.

CardinalStone Capital Advisers names Shirley Somuah as Partner to lead expansion into Ghana

Shirley Somuah will lead CardinalStone Capital Advisers expansion into Ghana

Tushop raises $3M to scale community group-buying in Kenya

The funds will be deployed to grow Tushop’s team, invest in its technology to make its platform as easy to use as possible, and to further expand across Nairobi before rolling the service out to other cities in Kenya.

Andela launches a new platform to fuel the future of customised work

The new customisable platform was purpose-built to match elite talent with jobs that fit, not just technical requirements, but personal work preferences too – 70% faster than traditional in-house recruiting.

CredPal raises $15 million to scale buy now pay later service in Africa, set to announce partnership with Airtel

Credpal closed a bridge round financing (including equity and debts) totalling $15 million to expand Buy Now Pay Later services in Nigeria and scale across Africa.

Cairo-based daily fantasy football platform Eksab raises $3M seed round, led by 4DX Ventures

Egypt’s number one integrated football gaming and content platform will scale across MENA and SSA

Andela’s Agnes Muthoni on how startups can benefit from the talent demands of a remote work schedule

A conversation with Agnes Muthoni, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Andela on the Andela Developer Survey

Decentralised Finance

With Decentralised Finance you don’t need the permission of any central authority on how much you spend. No financial or central authority can stop, delay or block your transactions and assets.

Apollo Agriculture secures $40m Series B funding round to drive international growth

The raise was led by Softbank Vision Fund 2, and supported by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Yara Growth Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, CDC, Anthemis Exponential Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, SBI, Breyer Capital, and TO Ventures Food.

ThriveAgric raises $56.4m debt funding to accelerate pan-Africa expansion plans

The investment will enable the company to grow its 200,000+ farmer base, and expand into new African markets, including Ghana, Zambia and Kenya.

Togo to host Equiano, Google’s subsea cable that will transform the West Africa’s broadband landscape

Société d’Infrastructures Numériques (SIN) and CSquared form a joint-venture in major digital infrastructure transformation initiative that lands Google’s Equiano Cable in Togo as the country takes steps to become a leading logistics and services hub in West Africa