IT総合 Uganda’s changes on Computer Misuse law spark fears it will be used to silence dissidents
Uganda’s controversial Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill 2022, which rights groups say will likely be used to silence dis...
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IT総合 IT総合 MoKo, Kenya’s home furniture startup, raises $6.5M
Kenya has the largest and most thriving furniture industry in East Africa, but the sector’s potential is hindered by sev...
IT総合 Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding
A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed fun...
IT総合 Sendy conducts second round of layoffs, 20% of its remaining staff affected
Months after Sendy laid-off 10% of its workforce, the Kenyan logistics startup is at it again after sending more staff h...
IT総合 Google picks South Africa for its first cloud region in Africa
Tech giant Google has today announced the launch of a cloud region in South Africa, its first in the continent, playing ...
IT総合 South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing
Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360, a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, ...
IT総合 Sky.Garden, Kenya’s Amazon-style marketplace, faces closure after funding fell through
The future of Kenya-based Sky.Garden — an Amazon-style marketplace for third-party merchants to sell electronics, ...
IT総合 YC-backed fintech Numida raises $12.3M led by Serena Ventures to extend loans to MSMEs beyond Uganda
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across Africa make up the bulk — over 90% — of businesses ...
IT総合 Ghanaian agtech Farmerline raises $1.5M from Dutch investor Oikocredit
Ghanaian agtech Farmerline has secured $1.5 million equity funding from Dutch impact investor Oikocredit in its second c...
IT総合 Kenyan startup Ponea gaining momentum in driving access to medical services
Serial Kenyan tech entrepreneur Mike Macharia has spent the last two decades helping enterprises like East Africa’s bigg...
IT総合 Nigeria’s YC-backed Remedial Health raises $4.4M seed funding
Early this year, Nigerian health-tech startup Remedial Health announced plans to scale within the West African country d...
IT総合 Kenya’s insurtech Turaco maintains 1 billion user target as it raises $10M funding
Insurance penetration in Africa is currently below 3% largely attributable to the slow adoption of innovation in the sec...
IT総合 MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital
Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down it...
IT総合 Kenya’s HotelOnline acquires hospitality software company HotelPlus
HotelOnline, a Kenyan-based travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabl...
IT総合 Uber wants court to nullify Kenya’s new ride-hailing law that caps service fee at 18%
Uber has appealed to Kenya’s apex court to annul the new digital taxi-hailing regulations claiming that some aspects are...
IT総合 Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M
Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 million seed funding in a round led by Sili...
IT総合 Seedstars Africa Ventures appoints new partner to back more founders in the continent
Seedstars Africa Ventures, the pan-African early-stage fund for startups, has appointed Bruce Nsereko-Lule as its new ge...
IT総合 Jumia, Zipline launch drone package delivery in Ghana
Jumia, the pan-African e-commerce company, has partnered with Zipline, to launch on-demand drone delivery in Ghana, with...
IT総合 Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG
Access to finance remains a key growth constraint for small businesses, with data showing a $330 billion financing defic...
IT総合 New rules for digital lenders in Kenya aim to weed out bad actors while bolstering sector growth
Fresh regulations are often met with skepticism from startup founders, but digital lenders in Kenya largely seem to be u...
IT総合 Google Wallet enters South Africa to tap digital payments growth
Google Wallet is now available in South Africa, the first market for this product in Africa, to make it easy for users t...
IT総合 YC-backed Zywa, a neobank for Gen Z, raises $3M to expand across MENA
Dubai-based Zywa, a neobank for Gen Z, plans to fuel its growth in the United Arabs Emirates (U.A.E), and to kick-start ...
IT総合 Kenyan agtech iProcure raises $10.2M to grow its input supply network
The shortage of agricultural inputs like fertilizer, unpredictable prices, and the proliferation of substandard products...
IT総合 Ex-Novastar partner Niraj Varia takes on new challenge as CEO of Kenyan agtech iProcure
Niraj Varia spent the last eight years at Novastar Ventures, a global VC with hubs in Nairobi, Lagos and London, having ...
IT総合 VCs set sights on African countries beyond the ‘Big Four’
Africa’s tech startup scene has grown significantly over the last decade, with various reports showing a sizable increas...
IT総合 In Africa, Kenyan startups have so far recorded highest funding growth this year
Kenyan startups raised nearly one billion dollars in the first half of 2022, surpassing what the country raised in the w...
IT総合 Startups among entities to face tougher laws as Kenya moves to protect personal data
Startups processing personal data in Kenya are among the entities required to register with the Office of the Data Commi...
IT総合 Kenyan insurtech Lami raises $3.7M seed extension led by Harlem Capital
Right from the launch of its first product in 2020, Kenyan insurtech Lami Technologies set out to increase insurance pen...
IT総合 Kenya directs all banks to stop dealing with Chipper Cash, Flutterwave, saying they are unlicensed
A day after Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Kenya’s monetary authority, said that Chipper Cash and Flutterwave were not lic...
IT総合 Facebook risks ban in Kenya for failing to stop hate speech
Kenya’s ethnic cohesion watchdog, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), has directed Facebook to stop...