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Top Vacation Home Rentals in Africa, 2021

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Vacation home rentals are fastly becoming the thing for family travelers, weekend getaways, and even events all around the globe. The serenading...
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Tech Times Africa Awards, 2021

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YC-backed Termii raises $1.4m seed round to expand to North Africa

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Welcome to Nigeria Fintech Week 2020

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Nigeria’s CcHub acquires Kenya’s eLimu to build the content creation arm of re:learn

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Egypt’s MaxAB closes $40 million Series A to expand its inventory delivery platform

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MaxAB, a Cairo-based startup that helps small retailers in the country procure inventory for their stores, on Monday announced that it has...
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Startup “Unicorns” Help Mobile Money Soar in Africa

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A recent GSMA report reveals that there are 1.2 billion registered global mobile money accounts. 560-million of these registered accounts are in Africa. The...
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Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises $1M pre-seed for its ready-to-eat meals service

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While there has been a wave of innovation in food tech worldwide, it’s still in early days for Africa. There are only a...

Cape Town Tech Startup Secures $14.5-Million More in Funding

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Cape Town-founded mobility tech startup WhereIsMyTransport has secured a total of $14.5-million during a Series A extension round to continue its expansion. This is...

Cairo-based furniture marketplace, Homzmart, closes $15 million Series A

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Homzmart, an Egyptian-based marketplace startup, has secured $15 million in its Series A investment round, TechCrunch reports. In February 2020, the...

Nigerian startups could bag more government ICT contracts with new policy

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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has launched a policy that may see Nigerian startups enjoy more government ICT contracts. On...

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This US-based early-stage fund wants to invest $5m in African startups

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In the first half of this year, investments in African startups have risen back to pre-covid levels. While there’s more excitement about...
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South Africa’s Yoco raises $83m to extend digital payments to 1 million SMEs

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South African payments and software platform, Yoco, has secured $83 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funds raised to date...
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Ecobank and Microsoft want to prepare more African SMEs to be digital businesses

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In Africa, two things are expediting the adoption of online business models; the covid-19 effect and the mobile phone penetration. 
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Instagram Founder could become New TikTok CEO

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TikTok is reportedly talking to founder and former CEO of Instagram, Kevin Systrom. This comes after Kevin Mayer resigned from his position as...
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Google Appoints Agnes Gathaiya Country Director, East Africa

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Telkom Makes Changes to Board of Directors

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MultiChoice South Africa CEO Resigns

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Winners List: Africa Influencer Awards, 2020

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This US-based early-stage fund wants to invest $5m in African startups

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In the first half of this year, investments in African startups have risen back to pre-covid levels. While there’s more excitement about...
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South Africa’s Yoco raises $83m to extend digital payments to 1 million SMEs

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South African payments and software platform, Yoco, has secured $83 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funds raised to date...
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Ecobank and Microsoft want to prepare more African SMEs to be digital businesses

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In Africa, two things are expediting the adoption of online business models; the covid-19 effect and the mobile phone penetration. 
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The Top African Regions Set to Become Startup and Investment Hubs

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On the back of Cape Town being recognised as the tech capital of Africa, topping international rankings for foreign direct investment strategy, Ian Lessem,...
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This US-based early-stage fund wants to invest $5m in African startups

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In the first half of this year, investments in African startups have risen back to pre-covid levels. While there’s more excitement about...
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South Africa’s Yoco raises $83m to extend digital payments to 1 million SMEs

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South African payments and software platform, Yoco, has secured $83 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funds raised to date...

Ecobank and Microsoft want to prepare more African SMEs to be digital businesses

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In Africa, two things are expediting the adoption of online business models; the covid-19 effect and the mobile phone penetration. 

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Uber Expands Ride-Hailing Service in Kenya

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Uber has expanded its ride-hailing service and online food delivery business to Nakuru, Kenya. According to Business Daily, this move...
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Jumia raises $348.6 million as it completes sale of secondary shares

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Last week, we reported that the ecommerce company, Jumia, was looking to raise around $400 million in a secondary share offer. The secondary offering was announced...
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Jumia plans to raise millions by selling 18 million shares

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Africa-focused eCommerce company, Jumia, is looking to raise millions of dollars from investors by selling 9 million American depositary shares (ADS) and...

YC-backed Termii raises $1.4m seed round to expand to North Africa

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Nigerian-founded Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) startup, Termii has raised $1.4m seed round from African early-stage VC firm, Future Africa and  Africa-focused Japanese...

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This US-based early-stage fund wants to invest $5m in African startups

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In the first half of this year, investments in African startups have risen back to pre-covid levels. While there’s more excitement about...
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South Africa’s Yoco raises $83m to extend digital payments to 1 million SMEs

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South African payments and software platform, Yoco, has secured $83 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funds raised to date...
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Ecobank and Microsoft want to prepare more African SMEs to be digital businesses

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In Africa, two things are expediting the adoption of online business models; the covid-19 effect and the mobile phone penetration. 

The Top African Regions Set to Become Startup and Investment Hubs

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On the back of Cape Town being recognised as the tech capital of Africa, topping international rankings for foreign direct investment strategy, Ian Lessem,...

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AFRICA INFLUENCER AWARDS, 2021 The Tech Times Africa Influencer Award is Africa’s largest and most prestigious accolades for the...
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This US-based early-stage fund wants to invest $5m in African startups

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In the first half of this year, investments in African startups have risen back to pre-covid levels. While there’s more excitement about...
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South Africa’s Yoco raises $83m to extend digital payments to 1 million SMEs

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South African payments and software platform, Yoco, has secured $83 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funds raised to date...
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Ecobank and Microsoft want to prepare more African SMEs to be digital businesses

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In Africa, two things are expediting the adoption of online business models; the covid-19 effect and the mobile phone penetration. 
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The Top African Regions Set to Become Startup and Investment Hubs

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On the back of Cape Town being recognised as the tech capital of Africa, topping international rankings for foreign direct investment strategy, Ian Lessem,...
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Nigerians Spend $16.9-Billion Annually on Power Generation, According to Expert

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Nigerians and their businesses spend about N7-trillion ($16.9-billion) annually on power generation, says Stephen Ogboko, a renewable energy expert, executive director and...
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One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

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Olumide Soyombo of Piggyvest and Paystack fame is starting Voltron Capital seven years after investing on his own. Olumide...
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Top Vacation Home Rentals in Africa, 2021

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Vacation home rentals are fastly becoming the thing for family travelers, weekend getaways, and even events all around the globe. The serenading...
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Twitter is Testing Tweet Upvote & Downvote Buttons

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Ubiquitous social media network Twitter is currently testing Reddit-like upvote and downvote buttons in efforts to highlight replies in long tweet threads...
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South Africa to Produce Over 100 Million Pfizer Vaccines A Year

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Pharmaceutical heavyweights Pfizer and BioNTech have agreed to partner with South Africa’s Biovac Institute to produce their COVID-19 vaccines at a facility...
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Jeff Bezos Successfully Reaches the Edge of Space

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Amazon, Blue Origin founder and richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, blasted off towards the edge of space in his own...
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This US-based early-stage fund wants to invest $5m in African startups

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South African payments and software platform, Yoco, has secured $83 million in Series C funding, bringing the total funds raised to date...
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Ecobank and Microsoft want to prepare more African SMEs to be digital businesses

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In Africa, two things are expediting the adoption of online business models; the covid-19 effect and the mobile phone penetration. 
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