African fintech firm Flutterwave raises $35M, partners with Worldpay
San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has raised a...
P2P lending platform Investree buys half of stake in B2B startup Mbiz, to develop supporting infrastructure for SMEs
Fintech lending platform Investree has announced that it has acquired...
Nigerian online-only bank startup Kuda raises $1.6M
Nigerian fintech startup Kuda — a digital-only retail bank — has...
Peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace Boatsetter raises $10M as it looks to grow globally
Obviously, not everyone owns their boat, and boat ownership is far more unique...
Opera founded startup OPay raises $50M for mobile finance in Nigeria
OPay, an Africa-focused mobile payments startup founded by Norwegian browser...
Africa Roundup: Jumia’s post-IPO earnings, Gokada’s $5.3M raise, Facebook’s fake-news purge, Joe Montana’s fintech investment
Jumia held its first post-IPO earnings call and weathered a short-sell assault...
Paving the journey for our app users is a rocky road
Afterall, nobody wants a lousy one-star app rating right? Between April to May...
Drivezy, India’s vehicle-sharing startup, is raising $100M+ at a $400M valuation, eyes US expansion
Drivezy — the startup out of India that wants to turn private car usage on...
SOLshare raises Series A from Singapore’s IIX Growth Fund, will energise rural Bangladesh with P2P solar grid
This is Singapore-based IIX Growth Fund’s first ever investment in a...
Tencent supports Malaysia’s cashless society by launching WeChat Pay MY
From today until August 28, all WeChat Pay MY users are subject to random...