The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) has led a $26 million Series B round in Tanzanian agritech company East ...

Nairobi fintech Cloud9 has raised $500,000 in equity from Alliance, a New York crypto accelerator and founder community; the cheque forms part of a pre-seed round that’s still open, and it takes ...

Saviu Ventures, an investor with offices in Paris and Nairobi, has backed Senegalese industrial company SORAM Afrique in a $1.36 million round. SORAM’s management team also put money into the round.

Cold Solutions Rwanda has secured a senior debt facility of up to $18 million from the Africa Go Green Fund to develop a new temperature-controlled storage facility in Kigali. The financing, managed ...

Nigerian waste-management company Ororo Waste Management Limited has secured a commitment of up to $1 million from Rising ...

French development finance institution Proparco has invested €150,000 in Kenyan agritech company Farm to Feed as the startup expands its technology platform and efforts to reduce post-harvest food ...

With a little over two months to go, anticipation is building for the 29th edition of Africa Tech Festival, the continent’s ...

Tunisia has announced a new startup financing initiative as the country continues efforts to strengthen support for entrepreneurs and technology-driven businesses. The fund is focused on improving ...

Africa  and the Z Zurich Foundation will equip 20,000 young people in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ...

Satellite software company Satlyt has raised $8 million in seed funding as it works to expand artificial intelligence and data-processing capabilities aboard spacecraft. The funding round was led by ...

Kenyan solar irrigation company SunCulture has closed a $10 million securitisation with Mirova, backed by the repayments its smallholder farmer customers make on their systems. Both companies say ...

For years, conversations about cryptocurrency were dominated by one question: what will the price of Bitcoin do next? Across ...