Author: Tajudeen Adegbenro

Zowasel, a Nigerian agri tech startup has received $100,000 financing from Promasidor Nigeria a leading pan African consumer packaged food manufacturer, and Guinness Nigeria at the UN World Food Programme Zero Hunger Sprint. Zowasel is an agricultural technology startup that develops a naturally positive and sustainable value chain across communities, people,…

Nigerian startup Releaf plans to expand into more crops and West African Markets. Releaf is a company that develops proprietary software and hardware solutions to drive the industrialization of food processing in Africa. The company was established in 2017, and participated in the Y Combinator accelerator programme in Silicon Valley in…

Reliefband, a wearable technology developer for preventing and treating nausea and vomiting symptoms, has launched Reliefband Sport, a new IPX7-designated waterproof wearable therapeutic device.  The device offers user-controlled therapy that treats and prevents nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness, morning sickness from anxiety, hangovers, pregnancy, chemotherapy, physician-diagnosed migraines, and…

Sterling Bank Plc said that its farmers’ radio will enhance smallholder farmers’ access to credit while broadening their skills. The bank initiated the 2021 edition of the Nigerian Farmers Radio, a Pan Nigerian agribusiness-related radio show to focus on product to region mapping, access to credit, and value chain focus. The…

An online learning platform, Nexford University that offers next-generation earning experiences has closed a $10.8 million in Series A funding. Dubai based VC Ventures and other investors led the funding round which includes Future Africa’s new thematic fund (focused on education), family offices, angel investors, unnamed VCs from 10 countries…

How can the inclusion of new digital ways of working in the healthcare sector enhance outcomes for patients to improve equity in global health in the COVID-19 era and beyond? These were the questions tackled by a panel of globally recognized health tech experts in a recent webinar for the…

The JASIRI Talent Investor program, supported by Allan and Gill Gray Philanthropy, has brought on mental health offering Vimbo Health to support August’s new cohort of young entrepreneurs. The firm was established in November 2019 by CEO Tafi Mazikana and CSO Sherrie Steyn. Vimbo Health aims at assisting entrepreneurs through their easy-to-use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy…

A professor and the registrar CEO of the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, Ayemere Iyayi expressed his optimism that the partnership between the institute and Premier Agribusiness Academy (PAA) will broaden livestock farmers’ capacity to assist in transforming the industry in Nigeria. He stated that the partnership will soon start…

Embracing GMOs, known as genetically modified crops will be helpful if Nigeria wants to meet her set goals to attain reduction on import dependency and food security. Rufus Ebegba, the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), at a workshop held in Lagos, said in a workshop his agency…

Microverse, a fast-rising edtech startup announced a series A funding of $12.5 million. Northzone, a global tech VC led the round alongside previous investors like All Iron Ventures and General Catalyst. Microverse assist individuals, specifically developing countries to learn how to code making use of a collaborative, cohort-based learning model…

Go1, a leading corporate edtech company has announced the closing of a $200 million Series D funding round. The funding round hiked the company into unicorn status increasing its valuation to more than $1 billion. The company was f founded by Melvyn Lubego, an SA entrepreneur, and Andrew Barnes, an Australian national…

Phoenix Hospital Group – one of the UK’s private healthcare providers with hospitals in the Harley Street Medical Area (HSMA) – has launched a new full-body cancer screening imaging service to help detect cancer in its early stages.   The Hospital launches a new full body cancer screening imaging service…

One of the leading centers in gastroenterology in the world has concluded a clinical trial to investigate the use of a remote monitoring device and app to help clinicians in the diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). The trial was conducted at the John Hopkins Medicine led by Prof…

The Heifer International and AGRF have announced the launch of Pitch AgriHack 2021, a competition focused on accelerating job creation and entrepreneurial growth in the agricultural sector by leveraging advanced technologies and participation of youths in Africa’s food security agenda. The seventh edition of the program is a pitching competition…

Miiskin, a digital health app that assists people in tracking changes to their skin which includes new and existing moles has launched a new mole sizing feature that allows patients to check if their moles have changed size through augmented reality. With 80% of melanomas appearing as new moles or…

Egypt’s Baramoda, EduPloyment, and UAE’s The Zola Collective have won the top three positions in the third edition of the C3 Social Impact Accelerator program powered by HSBC.  Baramoda is the first agritech startup in Africa and the Middle East that specializes in sustainable agricultural innovations, develops biofertilizers from Agriwaste. The program…

Vezeeta, a Cairo-based health-tech platform launched in 2015, allows millions of patients across several countries in Africa and the Middle East to search, book, and review the best doctors and medical services in just one minute. It also offers innovative SaaS solutions to thousands of healthcare personnel listed on its…

Cairo-based e-health startup, Estshara has raised $500,000 in a Seed fund round. The startup which runs a teleconsultation service secured the fund from Egypt Ventures and this has added it to the list of healthcare platforms in Egypt’s emerging market. The idea of the e-health startup developed years ago, from…

Despite the current challenges in the Nigerian economy, there are still opportunities available locally in key sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture. Watermelon and cucumber production in Nigeria are aspects of agriculture opportunities that can still be explored. Nigeria has a comparative advantage regards vegetable production with huge demand internationally…

Israel’s Agtech company, SupPlant, a developer of sensorless irrigation technology announced it secured a $10 million funding round co-led by Menomadin Foundation, Mivtah Shamir, Boresight Capital, and Smart-Agro Fund. The investment increases SupPlants’s total funding to more than $19 million since it was founded in 2012. SupPlant developed an irrigation technology that…