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Did you know that it’s possible to get a credit card with cash advance or loans even with bad credit? Yes, that’s right. To do that you have to do a lot of deep research to find the lenders offering relatively low interests. These interests will however not be as…

When you are building a business identity it is very important to get your materials right. It may seem like something that can be done at the last minute, but an effective business card or letterhead, if designed well, can set you apart from your competitors. With letterhead examples to…

Yesterday, June 16, 2022, Innovation Village held its Innovation Village – Live event where three subject matter experts talked about “How to increase funding for startups in the Healthcare Sector”. The three subject matter experts were Abimbola Adebakin, CEO of Advantage Health Africa; Ikechukwu Anoke, CEO of Zuri Health ; Ifeanyi Nsofor, MD, Senior Vice President…

Everybody should think critically and be creative in order to get the greatest outcomes. Something considered original content is anything that has rarely been seen before in any way on the web. A company’s ability to climb the ranks is directly related to its use of content marketing. You can’t…

Launch Africa Ventures, a Pan-African venture capital fund, announced the close of its $36.3 million fund, which it has primarily used to invest in B2B and B2B2C startups across Africa.  Since inception, Launch Africa has backed 108 startups across 21 African countries including Nigerian neobank Kuda, Kenyan B2B e-commerce retail platform MarketForce and…

Fresh from acquiring US-based Global Technology Partners (GTP) for $34 million, MFS Africa announced that it has secured an additional $100 million in its series C extension to $200 million. The company raised $100 million initially in 2021. The additional US$100 million in equity and debt funding was led by…

As the story goes, Google suspended engineer Blake Lemoine because he claimed that one of Google’s AI, LaMDA, is “sentient”. LaMDA, which stands for “Language Model for Dialog Applications,” is one of several large-scale AI systems that has been trained on large swaths of text from the internet and can…

Telegram is launching a premium service later this month. According to Pavel Durov, Telegram founder in a post on his telegram channel, the messaging company’s premium service will be “a subscription plan that allows anyone to acquire additional features, speed and resources. It will also allow users to support Telegram…

Tech giant Apple announced that it would launch its Buy Now Pay later (BNPL) service – Apple Pay Later – along with its new operating system, iOS 16 later this year. The announcement was made at its annual developers’ conference (WWDC) event early this week. Apple Pay Later, to be…

Access Bank Holdings announced that it has entered an agreement with Centum Investment Company Plc (‘Centum’) to acquire its 83.4% stake in Sidian Bank Limited. This will be Access Bank’s second acquisition in Kenya in recent times. The Pan-African bank acquired Transnational Bank in 2020. According to Sunday Ekwochi, Company…

MFS Africa, an Africa-focused digital payments company, announced that it has acquired US-based Global Technology Partners (GTP) for $34 million in a combination of cash and shares. The Dare Okoudjou – led company said that the acquisition will enable MFS Africa further deepen its offering to Africa’s gig economy, the…

Guaranty Trust Holding (GTCO) Plc fintech subsidiary, HabariPay, has just launched Squad, a digital payments platform to provide customers with the tools to do business digitally. According to the company, “At Squad, we provide business owners with the tools they need to thrive in a digital economy while also promoting…

Kenyan telecoms giant, Safaricom partnered with Visa to launch the first M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual card. With the M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual card, M-PESA customers can shop online globally and make payments at merchant locations in over 200 countries through Visa’s network globally. The M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual Card will…

Billionaire founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk declared that he no longer tolerates remote work at Tesla. In an email to the company’s executive staff with the headline “Remote work is no longer acceptable,” , he said employees must spend a minimum of 40 hours per week in the…

Meta COO, Sheryl Sandberg announced in a Facebook post that she is leaving Meta as COO after 14 years. She joined Meta, then known as Facebook in 2008 from Google where she was Vice President, Online Sales & Operations. She didn’t give a reason for leaving the company but according…

Talk360, a South African startup announced that it has closed a $4 million seed funding round led by HAVAIC, a venture capital and advisory firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. Other investors include Gaston Aussems (ex-Mollie), Robert Kraal (ex-Adyen), Gabriel de Montessuss (President WorldPay International) and Marnix van der…

Lifecheq, a personal financial advisory startup based in South Africa, has raised $3.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Naspers through its early-stage tech investment vehicle Naspers Foundry. Naspers invested $2.5 million. Founded by Abubakari Malik Addae, Shen Tian, Lifecheq is a fintech platform empowering financial advisers to…

West Chester-based technology consulting company, IT Edge, has launched an initiative that reduces the cost of expert marketing services by about 25%, according to Vista Today. The Kickstart Initiative provides a three-month no-cost retainer plan designed for startup companies to test the current elements of digital marketing. Marketing Division Lead at…

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, announced that it has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding from a number of investors including Founders Factory Africa, Texas-based Kon Ventures, Europe-based venture capital collective Crypto League, Ghana-based R9C Ventures and Maximus Ventures. According to the company, the platform will enable users grow their…

Nigerian B2B ecommerce startup, Betastore, announced that it has raised $2.5 million to expand to 3 new countries – Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cameroon – before the end of this year. The pre-series funding round has 500 Global, VestedWorld, and Loyal VC as key investors. To date,…