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Top 10 most innovative companies in Africa

These are the top 10 most innovative companies in Africa: Twiga, mPedigree, Copia, Piggyvest, MPost, Tizeti, Tongoro, Lumkani, Kobo360, and 54gene.

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Favour Ori sells his educational resource app for ₦22 million

The College Situation App is a platform that connects students—mostly Nigerians and Africans—with schools, scholarships, and fellowship programmes in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries abroad.

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Google’s first Africa Developer Space launched in Lagos is free for all

The Google Developer Space would serve as a hub for Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa and can be used by members of the Africa tech community, free of charge.

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Gbenro Dara, former Cheki boss, joins Opera as Managing Director of OList

Gbenro Dara has joined Opera as the Managing Director of OList, the online marketplace and classified ads business of Opera in Nigeria.

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PayJoy partners Transsion, others to provide instalment payment plans for smartphones

PayJoy—a consumer and smartphone financing startup—has signed an agreement with Transsion Holdings and three other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to enable instalment payment for their devices.

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Kayode Adegbola ends six months stint at Gokada to start Golborne Road Advisory

Kayode Adegbola, the director of government and regulatory affairs at Gokada, has ended his six months stint with the bike-hailing startup to start his venture, Golborne Road Advisory.

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Meet the six Nigerian women selected for the US 2019 TechWomen Programme

The 2019 TechWomen programme, which will run for five weeks, has six Nigerians alongside 100 emerging leaders, converge in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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How much does Andela make?

Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, will now officially recruit mid and senior level developers directly into the company to match clients demand.

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Meet SafeBoda—the ride-hailing startup that just closed a Series B round co-led by GOJEK and Allianz X

Ugandan bike-hailing startup, SafeBoda has secured a Series B investment co-led by Allianz X and Go-Ventures. This was announced on Tuesday, May 7 by Allianz X.

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Ex-Andelan, Babajide Duroshola joins SafeBoda as Country Head, Nigeria

Ex-Andelan, Babajide Duroshola has told benjamindada.com that he is joining ride-hailing startup, SafeBoda as their Country Head in Nigeria.

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Five Nigerian startups that made it to Y Combinator’s (YC) winter batch 2019

Exactly two years ago, TechPoint reported that five Nigerian startups got into YC's winter batch. The startups were Kudi, Aella Credit, Kangpe, Tizeti and Buypower.

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Gloo.ng completes pivot from e-commerce to e-procurement, Gloopro

After over five years of running Gloo, the management of PayMente Limited decided to move away from e-commerce into e-procurement citing early-stage profitability of the latter.

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