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- 6 Sept 2021
Endeavor Nigeria Unveils Inaugural Cohort for its ScaleUp Program
Endeavor Nigeria has unveiled the inaugural cohort of entrepreneurs for its new 10-week Endeavor ScaleUp Program that aims to support Nigeria’s most promising, high-impact business leaders.…
- 2 Feb 2022
Casava Gets $4M Pre-seed to Make Insurance Affordable and Accessible to Nigerians
Casava, Nigeria’s first 100% digital insurance company, has secured $4 million in pre-seed funding to provide affordable and accessible insurance products for millions of Nigerians. Starting with…
- 26 Nov 2018
Africa Fintech Summit Extols Technological Impact on Finance
More than 50 speakers and 500 finance professionals, tech enthusiasts, investors, and regulators gathered at Africa’s premier fintech event, the Africa Fintech Summit organized by Dedalus Global to…
- 8 Dec 2021
Flutterwave, 4DX Ventures Co-invest in Francophone Africa Payments Processor CinetPay
CinetPay, a digital finance platform that enables merchants in Francophone Africa to seamlessly accept and make payments, has announced a $2.4 million seed fundraising round from 4DX Ventures and…
- 21 Oct 2021
Nigerian Fintech Secures $1.7mn Financing Round “to Bet on African SMEs”
Brass, a Nigerian digital bank delivering easy access to affordable premium banking services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), has today secured $1.7mn in funding to address the heavily…
- 20 Sept 2021
Endeavor Nigeria Reveals Speakers for Catalysing Conversations 2021
Endeavor Nigeria, the leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs in Nigeria, has announced that its 3rd annual scaleup entrepreneurship summit, Catalysing Conversations, will be held on Thursday,…
- 14 Apr 2022
Fintech Leaders React to Flutterwave Allegations
Flutterwave, one of Africa’s largest unicorns, has been under fire on social media since allegations of insider trading, sexual harassment and perjury hit the Nigerian payment infrastructure…
- 3 Nov 2021
Payhippo Raises $3m in Seed Funding to Accelerate SME Lending
Payhippo, a lending startup that is widening credit access for small businesses in Nigeria, announced today that it raised $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by influential African fintech…
- 28 Aug 2017
‘Interswitch Connect’ Maiden Product Tech, Payment Conference Holds Next Month
Interswitch, Africa focused digital payments and commerce company, has announced its first Solutions Fair and Engagement platform tagged “Interswitch connect”. Brett King, Global bestselling author,…
- 16 Jun 2022
TechQuest STEM Academy, Partners Hosts Early-Stage Angel Investment Gathering in Lekki
TechQuest STEM Academy, and its Partners have rallied Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists and other stakeholders to an Early-Stage investor’s mixer at Lekki, Lagos. L-R: Founder, TechQuest STEM…
- 14 Oct 2020
#EndSARS: Nigeria’s Tech Startup Scene Faces Horrors of Police Brutality
Nigeria’s bubbly tech startup scene which is awash with “young-and-getting-it coders and tech entrepreneurs” has been disproportionately affected by the SARS menace. According to weetracker.com,…
- 7 Nov 2023
Bhambani, Flutterwave CFO Resigns amidst $50m IPO Plans
Oneal Bhambani, chief financial officer (CFO) at Flutterwave, has resigned, just over a year after joining the Africa's leading payments company. Bhambani, took to his LinkedIn to make the…
- 2 Oct 2017
Interswitch Forum ‘Connects’ Over 2000 Tech/Payment Stakeholders
Interswitch, an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money and the exchange of value between individuals as well as…
- 9 Aug 2021
Moove Raises $23M Series A Funding to Democratize Vehicle Ownership in Africa
Moove, an African mobility fintech, has announced that it has raised $23 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Speedinvest and Left Lane Capital, with participation from DCM, Clocktower…
- 29 May 2017
Sliide Airtime’s CEO Appears in Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 List
Forbes Africa has printed its annual list 30 under 30 list which recognises the most promising entrepreneurs building businesses in Africa. Sliide Airtime’s CEO and Co-Founder Mr Corbyn Munnik (aged…
- 1 Jul 2021
Africa’s Fintech Ecosystem Sees Record Growth - Report
The number of active Fintech start-ups has increased by 17.3% to 576 in Africa, which represents a slowdown in growth on the previous two years, but nonetheless means the number of Fintech start-ups…
- 9 Mar 2022
Yep, Nigerian Financial Super-App Raises $1.5m in Pre-Seed Funding
Yep!, a financial super-app, has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Greenhouse Capital as the company launches its revolutionary new digital financial super app on iOS and Android…
- 15 Mar 2020
Paga, Flutterwave Partners on payment Option for Merchants
Paga, a mobile payments company, yesterday announced a partnership with Flutterwave to support secure one-click payments for Paga wallet users at any merchant where the Flutterwave gateway is…
- 27 Jun 2022
TLcom Capital Appoints Eloho Omame as Partner
TLcom, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has appointed Eloho Omame as a Partner, bolstering its capabilities as it ramps up deployment of TIDE Africa Fund II, its new $150mn pan-African tech…
- 14 Aug 2022
Access Bank, Edtech Firms Equip Youngsters with STEAM Skills
Foremost financial institution, Access bank Plc. in collaboration with four indigenous edtech companies have channeled efforts and resources towards promoting and inspiring STEAM education among…
- 11 Nov 2020
Pantami, Dr Omobola Johnson, Aboyeji, Others to Speak at MTN’s Scholarships Event
Dr Isa Ali Pantami, minister of Communications and Digital Economy, will join Dr Omobola Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and other seasoned professionals at MTN Foundation’s scholarships event on…
- 15 Oct 2018
Flutterwave Completes Series A Extension Financing Round
Flutterwave Inc., financial technology firm, has announced the completion of its Series A Extension round of financing, saying the latest round includes investments from Mastercard, CRE Ventures,…
- 14 Feb 2022
Remedial Health Raises $1M Pre-seed Funding to Digitize Africa’s Neighbourhood Pharmacies
Remedial Health, a healthtech startup that develops solutions to make Africas pharmaceutical sector more efficient, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to roll out its digital procurement and…
- 24 Mar 2019
Facebook Partners UNODC, AfricaTeenGeeks to Bring Hackathon4Justice to Lagos
As part of efforts designed to spark creativity in young people while pushing their coding capabilities, Facebook has partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and…
- 7 Nov 2025
Flutterwave CEO @ CNN Global Perspectives Summit, Envisions Building Africa’s ‘Payment Superhighway’
Olugbenga “GB” Agboola, founder and CEO, Flutterwave, has shared his vision for Africa’s digital economy, one where Flutterwave serves as the “payment superhighway”, boosting intra- and inter-African…
- 23 Sept 2025
Aig-Imoukhuede, DJ Cuppy, Aboyeji, Others to Join Africa Breakfast Convos in NYC
BlackHouse Media (BHM) in partnership with Allison Worldwide, and The King’s Trust Group has announced the stellar line-up of speakers for the second edition of the exclusive Africa Breakfast…
- 13 Jun 2021
Nexford Completes Pre-Series A Funding of US$10.8M
Nexford University (“the Company”), a next-generation online university based in Washington D.C., announces the successful completion of a $10.8 million Pre-Series A funding round. The capital raise…
- 10 Mar 2021
Nigerian Payments Startup Flutterwave Raises $170m, Now Valued at Over $1Bn
Flutterwave, Nigerian payments startup has closed a $170m Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an African tech startup and one that gives it “unicorn” status with a value of…
- 18 Nov 2018
Flutterwave Reiterates Commitment to Better Merchants Payment Experience
With the recent change in the top management of Flutterwave Incorporated, the company says it remains committed in the drive towards ensuring that there renewed trust and security in the Nigerian…
- 26 Oct 2020
Future Africa Founder, Iyin Aboyeji on ‘The New Tycoons’ Forbes Africa Cover
Iyin Aboyeji, founder, Future Africa is on the cover for Forbes Africa’s ‘The New Tycoons’ edition, as part of the magazine’s latest cover story featuring a trio of change-makers creating value in…