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Meet the 2023 Google Africa Black Founders Fund Cohort

Google announces the 25 African startups selected for the third cohort of Google for Startups' Black Founders Fund

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Visa launches Africa fintech accelerator program

The Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator will empower up to 40 start-ups each year to accelerate and grow through a three-month intensive learning program focused on business growth and mentoring

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Flutterwave refute 45 bank accounts freeze reports by media

Contrary to several media reports, Flutterwave's Head of Branding and Storytelling, Yewande Akomolafe-Kalu says the account freeze was a civil case procedural step and nothing more.

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Pitch2Win invites innovative Web2 and Web3 startups to compete for a $10,000 prize

Kenyan retail distributor Kyosk has acquired KwikBasket, and has expanded its digital distribution offering to cover the fresh produce market in Africa.

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Pade HCM introduces Pade 3.0 to automate Africa’s HR management

Pade 3.0 redefines Africa’s HR industry standards with its advanced Human Resources management features.

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CcHUB selects Money Africa, Gradely and 10 other Nigerian startups for edtech fellowship

After three months of application and selection process, Africa's largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) has selected 12 startups for its inaugural Mastercard Foundation-backed edtech Fellowship Program.

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Why Ghana is building a cybersecurity centre for banks and fintechs

The Bank of Ghana has launched the Financial Industry Command Security Operations Centre (FICSOC) to provide threat intelligence-sharing, industry situational awareness and incident response among its regulated financial institutions.

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Kunda Kids secures $700K to teach African history to kids in the diaspora

Between 2017 and 2019, only 7% of all children books published in the UK contained characters from minority ethnic groups including those of African descent. Amidst this low percentage, the University of Manchester says 33.5% of the school population in the UK are from these minority groups.

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Tyme raises $77.8 million to fuel global expansion

This comes as the group's South African flagship, TymeBank, celebrates its seven million customer milestone this month

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Elon Musk hires Ad expert, Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO

Elon Musk has hired ex-NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino to be the new Twitter CEO.

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Lagos wants to use 12,000 electric buses for mass transit by 2030

The Lagos state government has partnered with Oando and EV manufacturer, Yutong to put 12,000 electric buses on Lagos roads by 2030. The first set of the buses have been delivered.

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Raise gets Carta’s backing to build Africa’s equity management platform

Carta, an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion has backed Raise in an undisclosed deal. It is the US-based companies first African investment.

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