Startups
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83Kweli.shop extends home deliveries to 500 towns across Uganda
Online shopping startup Kweli.shop (a brand of Dreamstar Digital Limited) has announced an expansion of its home deliveries service (also called door-to-door...
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118CHIL Group among 30 women-led startups for WE4A growth program
Shamim Nabuuma’s CHIL Group is among the 30 women-led startups that have been admitted into the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) growth...
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114Early Stroke Detection, KAWU head to dSkills@EA Regionals
The Uganda National pitch event for Digital innovations for business resilience in the East African community was held Saturday 26th March at...
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113Shamim Nabuuma nominated in Business Insider Awards
Ugandan techpreneur, Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa, has been nominated in the inaugural Business Insider Africa Awards. The awards aim to recognize African business...
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105HiPipo & the Ideation Corner unveil the ‘We Will Win’ initiative
HiPipo and the Ideation Corner have announced the start of the We Will Win initiative, a project that is set to make...
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155Fuzu unveils Free Forever plan for SMEs to acquire top talent
Fuzu Uganda has officially unveiled the Free Forever Campaign, an initiative aimed at helping startups and SMEs professionalize their hiring processes while...
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120The dSkills Program Ideathon Phase is Wrapped Up
The dSkills Program, full name Digital Innovation for Business Resilience in the East African Community Program has successfully come to the conclusion...
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153Flutterwave raises $250-million, now valued at over $3-billion
Africa-focused fintech firm Flutterwave has raised $250-million in its single-biggest funding round to date. This has pushed the start-up valuation at more...
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197Airtel & EzyAgric partner to extend FREE Farm advisory to Airtel subscribers
EzyAgric and Airtel Uganda have embarked on a partnership to extend free farm advisory services to Airtel subscribers across the country. This...
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17215 women-led Ugandan startups shortlisted for WE4A project
15 women-led Ugandan startups have been shortlisted for the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) project. The virtual Acceleration Program seeks to provide...
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262Digital Human Rights Lab, StartHub Africa announce the next chapter
After three years of successful networking, advocacy work, and enhancement of human rights structures both for the Ugandan society as well as...
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230MFS Africa acquires $100 Million funding in Series C
MFS Africa has raised $100-million through an equity and debt financing round. The fundraising marks another milestone in the digital payment gateway’s...
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252Twiga raises $50m Series C round to expand across Africa
Kenyan B2B e-commerce platform Twiga has raised a US$50 million Series C funding round to help it scale its affordable food solutions...
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MFS Africa expands into Nigeria, acquires Baxi
MFS Africa has announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Baxi, one of Nigeria’s leading super-agent networks. The deal, which...
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212Damali Ssali urges #WomenInFinTech participants to use the Internet to improve their Products
Participants at the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon have been challenged to make good use of the Internet as it has several...
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187Primera Muthoni mentors Women in FinTech participants on Product Management
Day four of the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon was a huge success as participants learnt about Product Management, Prototyping, and the...
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229Women In FinTech Hackathon teams get management tips
Day Three of the Women in FinTech Hackathon successfully ended with discussions focusing on why young innovators must draw proper business cases...
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195Women in FinTech hackathon teams urged on value addition
Day Two of the Women in FinTech #LevelOneProject Hackathon was successfully concluded with discussions centered on how participants can improve their projects...
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224Women in FinTech Hackathon Season 2 kicks off
The 2021 Women in FinTech Hackathon officially kicked off Friday 8th October with 17 shortlisted teams and over 70 participants altogether. Speaking...
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269Women in FinTech Hackathon: 17 Teams Shortlisted for 2021
Following a two-week-long online registration process and continuous evaluation of all entries, HiPipo has unveiled the 17 teams that will participate in...
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294Kampala Innovation Week 2021 dates announced
The 2021 edition of the Kampala Innovation Week has been unveiled! The event, organized by Start-up Uganda in partnership with UNCDF, is...
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223Andela turns unicorn after raising $200M in Series E
Andela has turned on the unicorn status after raising a tune of $200 million in Series E financing. Well, this feat means...
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225SafeBoda partners with KCCA, PSFU on a Vaccination Drive
In its commitment to secure the health and safety of its employees and the communities at large, SafeBoda has announced a vaccination...
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241FutureLink Technologies de-risking approach lowers costs
The high operating costs shouldered by financial services providers have always been blamed for the high-interest rates that businesses and people who...
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338EzyAgric is connecting farmers to markets, inputs and credit
Smallholder farmers have for long been exploited and cheated at various stages of agricultural production; be it buying inputs, where they have...
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260These CardPesa 5Cs enable businesses to access capital
While the majority of Uganda’s youth have resorted to running small businesses due to the high unemployment rate, their businesses suffer high...
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235Silicon Pay helping more women-led businesses get online
While the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to market and sell their products and services online, in what is...
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230SoftPay Business is digitizing payments, payrolls and tickets
Providing a better customer experience is every business owner’s dream as it helps build customer loyalty, which in turn supports business growth....
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230Yo Uganda enabling digital payments in business operations
Cashless and contactless digital payments are increasingly playing a significant role in ensuring safety, speed, convenience, and seamlessness in business operations globally. It...
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280Numida is using data as collateral to enable access to credit
While access to credit is what micro and small business owners need to expand their enterprises and work their way out of...
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353Xuldime is promoting e-money in schools
With parents pacing against time juggling a number of things to make ends meet, anything that helps them conclude their children’s school...
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236Pegasus driving digital payments through transaction reliability
The delay in settling digital money transactions is among the reasons most people in Uganda prefer cash to electronic transactions. This explains why...
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202Insure Small Small: Using Tech to serve the underserved
More Ugandans are set to access health insurance following the introduction of Bomba MED, a micro health insurance product on the market. Innovated...
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224Club Tangaza is using coding to support inclusion
When you talk about software engineering, many females will tell you that it is a preserve for males. This is basically because, in...
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243KaCyber helping transport operators close revenue leakages
Transport operators lose a lot of revenue as untrustworthy conductors charge money that is not recorded anywhere in the operator’s books, thus...
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219YTIB Capital is bridging Blockchain usage gap through SMS
While not many people in Uganda and across the African continent are using Blockchain technology mainly due to its complexity, YTIB Capital...
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218Enimiro Online aids financial inclusion with farmer-buyer links
People bored of buying foodstuffs, fruits, and meat that have stayed long on market stalls may have a reason to smile now...
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235ChapChap Africa oiling financial inclusion through aggregation
Despite contributing immensely to Uganda’s Gross Domestic Product and employing the largest number of Ugandans, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) face...
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1.0KRaxio to help FinTechs co-locate their services
While there has been growth in the number of Financial Technology Companies (FinTechs) integrating with telecoms and banks to facilitate easy payments...
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719Pesajet promoting education through low-interest loans
Spending a day or a week at home for lack of school fees is something that no parent would wish their child...
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537Bolt raises €600 million to quicken grocery delivery
Bolt has raised 600 million euros from investors to aid quick grocery delivery. The round was led by Sequoia Capital alongside other...
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384Kanzu Money eases bulk payments for SMEs
Many businesses always find themselves entangled in non-core business functions and end up giving little time to core operations, which affects their...
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338Kuzimba services helps you access building materials online
From bricks and cement to painting, plumbing, and décor services, anyone undertaking a construction project can now access them under one roof,...
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281Alpteq is developing solutions for people’s financial needs
It is one thing to develop a financial solution and another thing for that solution to be accepted in the market. It is...
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249Merchandise Uganda is giving SMEs global online visibility
Many micro and small enterprises in Uganda still lack online presence due to, among others, the absence of digital skills to enable...
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260Buladde secures client land with access to financial services
Several people across the country have fallen victim to land evictions or have their pieces of land lying idle for lack of...
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225Green Shares is driving smallholder farmers’ financial inclusion
It is estimated that at least 80 percent of Ugandan farmers are smallholders. Despite their everyday challenges, they contribute the largest share...
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233PayTota seeks to bridge existing financial inclusion gaps
While some people saw the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic as a major setback, to Erasmus Okurut and his team at PayTota...
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233Wewole by Jumo gives a boost to financial inclusion efforts
Being cash strapped has never been a good experience for anyone, neither is the hassle of moving from one financial institution to...
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255List of the 25 founders in the Future Is Female 2021 Cohort
The founders that have made it for the second edition of the Future is Female Mentorship Program have been announced. The program...
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293SafeBoda to extend credit to merchants, prioritize women
In a bid to support women inclusion and support business growth, SafeBoda, which started off initially as a ride-hailing App, plans to...
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317Enabling Finance: Linking borrowers to lenders with tech
The era of moving around from one lender to another shopping for the best loan deal could have come to an end,...
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291EverLend Uganda’s non-collateral digital credit services model
While every business needs credit at one point to support enterprise growth, most Uganda Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and farmers...
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234UG-Mart facilitates financial inclusion through simplified KYC
The long procedures and tough requirements by financial service providers are among the reasons some people, especially at the bottom of the...
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241Payclide eases pushing in and pulling out of money
Despite the increasing use of mobile money services across the country, most Ugandans, especially those in rural areas, still find it hard...
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257Timely settlement gives Jumia an edge in online business
While most Ugandan businesses are used to physical cash payments, there is a gradual shift to electronic commerce that has forced them...
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238Flutterwave is supporting African women-led business growth
Business enthusiasts believe that supporting a woman-led business is equivalent to supporting an entire family and a nation at large. Flutterwave, a payments...
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234Trade Lance is providing e-solutions to business challenges
While businesses are grappling with various challenges as they seek to thrive in today’s competitive environment, it is not easy to come...
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234Computing Palace closing digital-gender gap with ‘Her Duuka’
It is no secret that women are behind men when it comes to digital skills and is less likely to have their...
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207Ticteq is solving the ticket access challenge through digitalization
Missing out on your favourite concert, sports game, or comedy show because of the long distance to the ticketing point continues to...
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259Instant settlements put Beyonic a notch higher in the market
While some Financial Technology Companies (FinTechs) are still struggling with the Level One Project principle of Same Day Settlement, Beyonic – recently...
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281Pebuu transforms pocket money in schools with digital wallets
Pocket money in form of cash in school is set to become history, following a new innovation that seeks to have it...
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234Xente: facilitating digital payments for businesses
Xente Tech Limited, a Financial Technology (FinTech) company that offers corporate Visa cards and payment solutions to businesses, is increasingly gaining momentum...
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233Yassako: Enabling Yaka recharge on credit
The second season of the 40 Days 40 FinTechs initiative by HiPipo kicked off virtually on 12th July with Mallan Company Limited,...
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281M-KOPA expands to Nigeria
Connected asset financing platform, M-KOPA, has announced its expansion to Nigeria. To lead the Nigeria team, M-KOPA has named Babajide Duroshola as...
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300Chipper Cash third Anniversary: 3 notable achievements
Cross-border money transfer and payments app, Chipper Cash, is celebrating its 3rd anniversary this week with amazing offers in stock for you....
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272MaxAB raises $40M in Series A to expand across the MENA region
MaxAB, Egypt’s B2B wholesale food and grocery ordering platform raises $40M in a Series A round to expand its physical footprint across...
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310Apply for the Next Generation Africa 21-22 accelerator project
Next Generation Africa 21-22 is the accelerator project for African startups, innovators, makers, and young talents who intend to develop products or services...
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271CMM, AfricaCommsWeek partner on Future is Female 2nd Edition
C. Moore Media, International Public Relations (CMM), a New York-headquartered PR agency focusing on the US, UK, and African markets, has partnered...
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243HiPipo announces the 40 DAYS 40 FINTECHs Season Two
The inaugural HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs set the bar very high: even though the event started soon after the lifting of...
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362Covid-19 Lockdown: Kweli.shop now delivers free to 7 cities
A day after the nationwide lockdown declared by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19 in...
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371Shamim Nabuuma among Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts
Uganda’s Shamim Nabuuma just got inducted into the inaugural class of Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts. The selected group is a community of...
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597Chipper Cash raises $100 mn in Series C, enters unicorn club.
Africa-focused cross-border payments startup Chipper Cash has likely joined the unicorn club. This is after securing $100 million in its Series C...
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356Imuka’s Pitchfest: Entrepreneurs meet local Investors
Talk to any economic expert and my most educated guess is they will tell you how SMEs are the backbone of any...
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570Stripe-owned Paystack launches in South Africa
Paystack, the fintech start-up acquired last year by US fintech leader Stripe, is establishing a presence in South Africa as it looks...
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334Ensibuuko raises $1m to scale, expand in Africa
Uganda’s fintech startup Ensibuuko has raised $1m from global impact investor FCA Investments to provide digital financial services to over 200,000 rural customers in Uganda. With the...
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333SafeBoda Launches Anniversary Promo with 50% OFF rides!
Leading ride-hailing app, SafeBoda, has today launched an exciting offer with 50% OFF rides for all cash and cashless ride customers! The...
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287Reddit Talk: Another Clubhouse competitor?
You know a product is good when the competition is stiff. That’s the category that audio social media is currently. We are...
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334Numida Technologies raises $2.3Mn to expand operations
Ugandan fintech startup Numida has announced the close of its $2.3 million seed round. Pan-African payments company MFS Africa led the seed round. There...
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407GSMA announces 9 grantee startups helping people get online
In case you’d forgotten, the GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion was launched in April 2020. This was about...
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330Tugende closes Series A round with $3.6m fund
Ugandan asset financing company, Tugende, has raised $3.6m in additional equity financing to close its Series A round. This additional round was...
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305Glovo raises €450M in Series-F funding
Delivery app, Glovo, has announced that it has raised €450M in its Series F funding. The round was led by New York-based...
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332Chinese ride-hailing app DiDi Chuxing is now in South Africa
Chinese ride-hailing app DiDi Chuxing is now available on the African continent. This is after the start of operations in South Africa....
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328Bolt launches its food delivery service in Kenya
Bolt has officially launched its food delivery service, Bolt Food, in Nairobi, Kenya, to give users access to a huge variety of...
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312Jumia looking to sell shares to raise funds
Jumia is looking to raise funds from investors by selling 9 million American depositary shares (ADS) and 18 million ordinary shares. This...
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301Nigeria’s Kuda Bank raises $25 million in a Series A round
Nigeria’s digital fintech, Kuda Bank has completed a $25 million Series A round to continue the provision of modern banking service for...
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257Media Challenge Initiative Launches a Media Innovation Hub
Media Challenge Initiative (MCI), a youth-driven non-profit building the next generation of journalists in Africa through training, mentorship, and experiential peer-to-peer learning...
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348mPharma partners with Belayab to launch in Ethiopia
mPharma, a health tech startup based in Ghana that manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, has signed a franchise agreement...
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332EzyAgric spreads wings, launches app in India
“Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea just how far you can fly”. Ugandan-based agtech platform EzyAgric, in partnership with...
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352MoTIV unveils ‘Tools to Create’ to support Uganda’s creative industry
As the world celebrates the International Year of the Creative Economy, MoTIV Uganda Ltd has launched an asset financing facility for Uganda’s...
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361gnuGrid raises $250,000 Series A fund for expansion
Uganda’s gnuGrid Africa has raised US$250,000 to distribute “Solar Sentra“, its digital solution in Uganda and across Africa. gnuGrid Africa says the funds were raised...
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357Nala enters the UK market, signs API deal with Modulr
NALA recently signed an Electronic Money Directive (EMD) agent deal with Modulr, as it finalizes its UK launch. The partnership is primarily...
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Bolt raises €150M to improve its service quality and safety
Ride-hailing company, Bolt has raised €150 million in funding to improve the safety, security, and quality of its services. This is as...
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531Pollicy unveils the DataFest Kampala 2021 roadmap
The 3rd edition of DataFest Kampala has launched with a focus on exploring the role that data plays in how we navigate...
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623FinTech Stakeholders optimistic of future after 2020 spotlight
The COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented effects notwithstanding, Financial Technology stakeholders have had a lot of positives in 2020. These included world...
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627Kawooya Innocent voted onto Mojaloop Foundation Council
Kampala Mayor aspirant, Innocent Kawooya, is eating big even before he eats City Hall. He recently announced on his page that he...
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Jumia raises $243.2mn from its “at the market” offering
E-commere platform, Jumia Technologies AG – which we all know as Jumia – has announced the completion of its “at the market”...
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623Sokowatch adds electric TukTuks to its Uganda delivery fleet
Sokowatch has announced the launch and addition of electric tuktuks to its delivery fleet in Uganda. This is the first time electric...
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688Social crypto payments app, Bundle, launches in Ghana
In April, we told you about the launch of a social payments app for African users by Binance. The app, named Bundle,...
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594List of the nominees for the 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa
HiPipo; the organizers of the annual Digital Impact Awards Africa have released the list of nominees for the 7th edition of the...
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545SafeBoda pausing Kenya operations effective 27th November
While we thought the effects of COVID-19 were not adverse in regards to the technology industry, the case might be different. As...
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Nigerian Fintech startup, Kuda, raises $10m seed round
Nigerian fintech startup, Kuda, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round, in its bid to expand further across the African...