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Some stakeholders are already speculating of a possible funding crunch for African startups in the nearest future. And it's easy to see why they are worried - global VC funding has recently been declining on a monthly basis according to Crunchbase.

Buy Now Pay Later startup Motito and eight other African startups have been selected to take part in the second edition of the Norrsken Impact Accelerator, which is designed to find the world’s most promising impact startups, and help them scale.

Africa’s largest fintech interoperability hub, MFS Africa, will reportedly acquire US-based payments software company Global Technology Partners (GTP) in a $34 million deal.

The World Food Forum (WFF) collaborated with Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) to host an associated event at Stockholm+50 on “Agrifood Tech Innovations for a Healthy Planet: Creating opportunities and empowering the next generation of agripreneurs.”

LaFiya Telehealth has also partnered with Israel-based company TytoCare to provide patients with kits that facilitate more precise diagnosis during virtual consultations.

While the health-tech ecosystem has been growing steadily, activity was amplified amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

With cryptocurrency prices plummeting as central banks start to raise interest rates; many are wondering if this is the beginning of the end of the bubble.

In 2021, Sudanese digital marketplace, alsoug, raised $5 million from investors, including Egyptian fintech startup, Fawry.

Nyamariwata and 123tutors chief executive and founder Aaron Bornmann met when they were both students at the University of Pretoria, tutoring for other companies in their spare time.

When law professor Douglas Branson published the book The Future of Tech is Female in 2018, he must have imagined that the global tech industry would soon be led by women.

Many regions of Africa felt the health impacts of the Covid pandemic less strongly than other parts of the world