Leading Ghanaian Fintech, ZeePay, completes $7.9 million series A funding round

Zeepay announced that it has completed a fundraise of $7.9 million in its Series A.0 which was a hybrid of both equity and balance sheet funds to support its operations.

Applications open for early-stage Ghanaian Startups to scale their operations through the Mastercard Foundation and MEST Express Accelerator Program

MEST, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation has announced that applications are open for the next two cohorts of the MEST Express Accelerator program.

MDaaS Global raises $2.3m to launch digital health solution SentinelX and expand across Nigeria

The Seed extension led by Newtown Partners via the Imperial Venture Fund with SentinelX set to provide Nigerians with tech-enabled preventive and personalized healthcare

Carbon announces 5-year partnership with VISA

Carbon has today announced a strategic five-year partnership with Visa to offer both digital and physical issuance of Visa cards to its customers.

Brandmobile Africa announces the launch of Kuuzza

Kuuzza provides a risk-free, exciting, profitable & sustainable business for young, agile and entrepreneurial Nigerians looking for an alternative source of income.

TECNO to re-define PHANTOM as a flagship sub-brand

TECNO, the leading smartphone brand in global emerging market, is said to re-define PHANTOM as its flagship sub-brand, aiming to tackle the premium smartphone market amid an ambitious global expansion plan.

CcHub funds Chekkit, 4 others in latest syndicate round

Co-creation Hub, Nigeria's leading innovation centre, recently made known the 5 companies that receive investment in its latest syndicate round. The announcement was made in unofficial fashion, via a tweet by CcHub CEO, Bosun Tijani.

Facebook Partners with Reuters to launch free online course for journalists

According to Facebook, the course is aimed at both seasoned journalists and industry newcomers. Upon completing the course, participants will receive a certificate.

FSD Africa Investments invests US$4.5m in Nithio FI, to support the scale-up of off-grid energy access in African markets.

The Funding contributes to Nithio FI’s first raise of US$23 million to scale off-grid energy financing in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

VC4A Venture Showcase alumni raise $180 million, applications for the 2021 program now open

VC4A Venture Showcase, an exclusive program of choice for Africa-focused early-stage investors and hand-picked startups looking to raise their Seed and Series A rounds.

MainOne, West Africa’s Leading Carrier-neutral data center provider to unveil data center in Appolonia City, Accra

MainOne, the leading provider of connectivity, cloud and data center solutions in West Africa is set to launch the Appolonia Data Center of its subsidiary, MDXi.

Meet the 15 Startups that made it to 6th Google Startup Accelerator

The 15-list cohort brings the total number of startups that have being a part of Google's Startup Accelerator program to 82.