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Tech Word For The Week: Angel Investor

They are usually high net worth individuals who have enough excess funds to invest in untested but promising startups who can give them higher returns than traditional financial institutions.

Sterling pilots 500-50-5 initiative to make indigenous businesses globally competitive

500-50-5 is a signature program created to transform indigenous businesses into global enterprises.

Shecluded: A Gender-based Fintech that keeps on giving

Shecluded plans to change the lives of a lot of women by ensuring more female-led MSMEs grow to large organizations in the future.

Catalysing Conversations 2021 – Endeavor Nigeria releases lists of speakers

Catalysing Conversations 2021, seeks to drive a culture of entrepreneurial leadership and inspire a generation of high-impact entrepreneurs in Nigeria.

Tech Word For The Week: Venture Capital

Venture Capital is a kind of financing (and expert support) investors provide for young startups who have an innovative product or service and high growth potential. Investors provide technical support and finance in exchange for equity in the startups.

TecXposition Launches Second Edition of Annual Africa’s Premier Tech Event

TecXposition has announced the second edition of its annual African Premier Tech event, themed - ‘Improving Profitability: Changing everyday lives.’

Tech Word For The Week: Product-market fit

Product Market fit is a perfect blend between a product and the market’s need such that clients become raving ambassadors.

Prospa announces $3.8m pre-seed round

Prospa has raised a $3.8m pre-seed fund to offer software and financial services to Nigerian entrepreneurs and micro-businesses. The pre-seed round was oversubscribed by 380% to become the largest pre-seed round in Nigeria’s Fintech history.

Flutterwave announced Platinum Sponsor for 2021 Africa Fintech Summit

Africa Fintech Summit has announced Flutterwave as the Platinum Sponsor for this year’s edition of Africa Fintech Summit in Cairo. The summit is scheduled to hold in November 16th-17th, 2021.

Endeavor Nigeria commences Endeavour ScaleUp Program to support 7 entrepreneurs

Endeavor Nigeria commence a 10-week incubation program to support and seven Nigerian based emerging high impact entrepreneurs.

Africa Data Centres reveals continent’s largest-ever data centre expansion plan

10 Interconnected, cloud- and carrier-neutral data centers will be built across the length and breadth of the continent

pawaPay Closes on Seed Funding of $9M

African payments company pawaPay, has secured a $9m Seed raise.