In Nigeria, there are debates and public statements circulating on how to revive the faltering economy by utilizing the non-oil industries as a base in the context of increasing economic issues. T...
Nigerian analytics and insights startup Stears revealed on Tuesday that Serena Williams' investment firm, Serena Ventures, had helped it raise $3.3 million in a seed round. The Omidyar Group...
Given the number of innovative firms that are emerging every day in Africa, Nigeria continues to aggressively dominate the continent's startup ecosystem. Realizing this, it is no surpris...
In a statement, Airlift, the second-largest startup in Pakistan, announced its closing and cited the global financial crisis and the weakening of the capital markets as reasons. In Pakistan, wher...
Flapmax, in collaboration with Microsoft, launched the FAST Accelerator Founder Series last week, after graduating participants representing 12 businesses throughout Africa. Participa...
Umba, a Nigerian digital banking platform operating in Lagos, Nigeria, has raised $15 million in Series A funding to expand financial products to underserved population across Africa. T...
The gender-based programme is formulated to train women farmers in Basic Agronomic Practices and Financial Literacy, to help them to make informed farming, and agribusiness conclusions while empower...
Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, depicting more than 80 sectors. Just like previous year’s assortments, about half of the companies in the W22 bat...
Klas has raised $130,000 in an angel funding round led by different investors including Tola Adesanmi of Spleet, Odunayo Eweniyi of Piggyvest, Nadayar Enegesi of Eden life, Njoku Emmanuel of Lazerpa...
Kwik is a Nigeria & French-based startup that procures logistics services to B2B (Business-to-Business) merchants from social vendors to e-commerce platforms has raised $2million in series A f...