Innovator of the Week

Bosta, an Egyptian logistics and last-mile delivery company, has raised a US$6.7 million Series A funding round to boost its...

Gloria Tumushabe's engineering and computer science studies at the University of California, Berkeley were funded entirely by a full scholarship,...

Flextock is a Middle East-based tech-enabled e-commerce fulfillment company that tracks, packages, and ships goods for retailers looking to start...

Paystack, a Nigerian payments platform, has started operations in South Africa after a six-month pilot, making it the startup's third...

Lami Technologies, a Kenyan insurance technology (insurtech) startup, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to help low-income Kenyans gain...

MEST has announced the top three performing Ghanaian tech startups that recently graduated from its Beta 2020 cohort of the...

Ajua, a Kenyan customer experience platform for African companies, has announced the acquisition of WayaWaya, a Kenya-based AI and machine...

Tolulope George-Yanwah has been appointed as Ghana's new Chief Executive Officer by Jumia, Africa's leading eCommerce platform. Tolulope George-Yanwah succeeds...

Flutterwave, a Nigerian fintech company, has been named in TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World...

Kidato, a Kenyan edtech startup for African K-12 students, has raised $1.4 million in a seed round. Learn Start Capital,...

The second season of the Microsoft Africa Development Center's Game of Learners virtual hackathon featured 12 teams made up of...

The NITDA World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) challenge has awarded a ten million naira grant to the five startups who...