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- 8 Dec 2024
Seedstars Africa Ventures I Announces $42m First Close
Seedstars Africa Ventures I, a venture capital fund making early-stage investments in highly scalable start-ups in Africa, has achieved a first close of $42 million, with participation from the…
- 10 Jan 2024
EIB Global Invests $30M in Seedstars Africa Ventures I
Innovative businesses and start-ups across Africa will benefit from better access to risk capital thanks to a US$30 million equity investment by EIB Global in the Seedstars Africa Ventures I venture…
- 12 Mar 2019
Ampion, Plutos Ventures Launch New Venture for Africa-focused Start-ups
Africa-focused Ampion and Berlin-based Plutos Ventures Holding announced the founding of Ampion Ventures. The goal of the new project is to build scalable digital business models in selected African…
- 14 Aug 2015
Ampion Venture Bus West Africa Winner to Pitch at DEMO Africa 2015
The winner of Ampion West African Venture bus challenge would pitch at the DEMO Africa 2015 edition, having previously partnered with DEMO Africa in 2014. The Ampion bus will move across West Africa…
- 2 Aug 2015
Incubation Road-Trip: Ampion Announces 2015 Venture Bus Africa, Partners
Ampion has announced partnership with Transparency International, the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and leading financial institutions in West Africa. The partnerships will span two…
- 11 May 2016
Ringier, One Africa Media Launch ROAM Classifieds Joint Venture
Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) have agreed to merge their pan-African Classifieds assets to create and grow Africa’s largest classifieds group. In the joint venture deal announced on…
- 20 Oct 2013
Microsoft Ventures Supports Entrepreneurship in Africa
Microsoft Corp. has announced the expansion of the Microsoft Ventures partnership program into Africa. Microsoft Ventures was introduced in June as a coordinated global effort to offer tools,…
- 13 Mar 2025
Orange Launches Annual Social Venture Prize for Africa, Middle East
Orange has announced the 15th annual Social Venture Prize (OSVP) across Africa and the Middle East to promote social innovation and entrepreneurship. The OSVP acknowledges creative start-up ventures…
- 15 Nov 2016
Eutelsat Unveils ‘Konnect Africa’ Brand for Satellite Broadband Venture
‘Konnect Africa’ brand by Eutelsat Communications was on Tuesday launch at the Africacom event, and marks a change in scope of the ‘Broadband for Africa’ venture set up to galvanise the market for…
- 24 Oct 2022
Flourish Ventures Launches Africa-Focused Pre-Seed Investment Platform Madica
Flourish Ventures, a global venture capital firm investing in mission-driven fintech entrepreneurs, has announced the launch of affiliate Madica, a structured investment program for pre-seed stage…
- 5 Oct 2021
Pacer Ventures Launches Pacer Labs to Support Digital Acceleration in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa venture firm Pacer Ventures is set to further unlock the power of digital transformation in Africa with the launch of Pacer Labs, a software development firm born to support the…
- 7 Oct 2013
New Richest Men List Put Africa’s Billionaires Fortune @ $144Bn
Ventures Africa, an African business magazine and news service, said it has launched the first of its new annual Africa rich list, touted as the most comprehensive ever compiled. It revealed the true…
- 7 Aug 2024
Founders Factory Africa Rebrands to 54 Collective
Founders Factory Africa (FFA), leading African venture capital firm has announced its rebrand and name change to 54 Collective, evolving its business model to better support transformative technology…
- 12 Jun 2017
Orange Digital Investment Launches €50m for Start-ups in Africa
Orange is strengthening its corporate venture strategy by creating a new Africa section in its flagship programme for investment in start-ups, Orange Digital Ventures. As part of this initiative, the…
- 19 Jun 2023
Seedstars, Fondation Botnar Launch Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures with $20M Investment in Africa
Seedstars Capital and Fondation Botnar have announced the launch of the Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures mandate. Together, they intend to invest $20 million in early-stage, purpose-driven…
- 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…
- 26 Mar 2024
IFC Invests in New 4DX Ventures Fund to Support Tech Startups in Africa
IFC is investing $10.5 million in a new fund by 4DX Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage African technology companies across a broad set of sectors,…
- 13 Feb 2023
New alliance Launches Data Analytics-driven Consumer Finance Service in Africa
SC Ventures, the innovation Fintech investment and ventures arm of Standard Chartered, has entered into an agreement with Yabx, a company incubated by Comviva and part of the Mahindra Group, to…
- 20 Aug 2024
Kola Aina Joins EFInA Board
Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) Limited has announced the appointment of Kola Aina, Founding Partner and General Partner of Ventures Platform, Africa’s leading seed-stage venture…
- 20 Sept 2015
Lagos to Host Angel Investor Summit
On Wednesday September 23, 2015, the Lagos Angels Network (LAN) in partnership with the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), DEMO Africa and Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), will host “The…
- 30 Oct 2019
TLcom Hosts Africa Female Founder Summit in Lagos
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, on Tuesday held its inaugural Africa Tech Female Founder Summit. Launched to build a collaborative network of Africa’s female tech founders,…
- 29 May 2023
MultiChoice Group Launches "Moment" an integrated payment platform for Africa
MultiChoice Group, Rapyd and General Catalyst have entered into a joint venture agreement aimed at developing an integrated payment platform for Africa. The joint venture will operate under a new…
- 27 Apr 2018
IFC Venture Capital Supports Disruptive Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced that it led the $8.6 million Series A equity investment in Africa’s Talking, a Kenyan based communication-platform-as-a-service (“cPAAS”) API…
- 19 Jul 2022
AfricInvest, Cathay Innovation Complete Final Close of €110M Pan-African Venture Fund
AfricInvest, a multi-asset investment platform in Africa and global venture capital firm Cathay Innovation, have completed the final close of their joint Pan-African Venture fund, Cathay AfricInvest…
- 5 Feb 2020
TLcom Closes TIDE Africa Fund at $71M
TLcom, the Africa-focused Venture Capital firm, has announces it has secured an additional $31M for its TIDE Africa Fund, bringing its Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)-focused fund to $71mn. The latest…
- 10 Mar 2020
Orange Digital Ventures Backs Nigerian Start-up with US$1.5M
Orange Digital Ventures (ODV) Africa has announced a US$1.5-million seed investment round in Youverify, a Lagos-based digital identity and address verification start-up. In its statement, Orange…
- 23 Mar 2016
Ringier Africa Deals Group Acquires DealDey
Ringier Africa Deals Group, a newly-founded joint venture between Swiss Ringier Africa AG and South African Silvertree Internet Holdings (Pty) Ltd, announced it has acquired one of Nigeria’s biggest…
- 5 Oct 2023
TLcom Announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2023
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has officially announced its fifth annual Africa Tech Female Founder Summit, which will be held on Tuesday 14th November 2022 in Lagos,…
- 13 Mar 2015
Why Nigeria Needs M-Pesa Now
It’s pretty simple; Africa’s largest economy is losing N6 trillion to rural ignorance of mobile money, according to Venture Africa. Mobile money transactions in Nigeria are said to be at a very low…
- 27 Dec 2013
Nigeria Missing in Africa’s Top 5 Performing Economies of 2013
That Africa is set to become the world’s economic engine in the next 10 years or during the 21st century is no doubt a well-known fact. Unfortunately, Nigeria is not one of the top five. Countries…