Line, the operator of a Japanese messaging app that’s popular in Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and…
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CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, has announced a €50 million investment in Rocket Internet-backed Africa…
Vantage Capital, one of Africa’s major mezzanine fund manager, announced today that it has disbursed…
Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan’s social issues-minded fund has invested $24 million in Andela,…
Taxi-hailing giant, Uber announced that it has raised $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment…
In its bid to enhance the income generating capacity of indigenous women in Lagos state,…
A new venture capital fund has launched with the aim of taking tech startups in…
Jobberman’s Opeyemi Awoyemi and Olufunbi Falayi have set up a Student innovation Fund to to support…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is planning to spend $80 million over the next…
Indigo Trust has taken over the management of a joint hub fund initiative it had…
American business magnate, Warren Buffett has invested 1 billion dollars in technological giant, Apple. The…
Have you seen this new trailer “African Booty Scratcher” uploaded on YouTube by Damilare Sonoiki?…
One Acre Fund , a nonprofit agriculture organization that supplies smallholder farmers with the financing…
Solar specialist Nova-Lumos has received a £150,000 (US$219,000) grant from the SolarNigera Programme (SNP), an…
HTC has announced the launch of a $100 million fund, Vive X, for Virtual Reality startups around the…
The concept of Crowdfunding in Nigeria is not strange and is it somewhat integral to…
In a bid to expand and penetrate South-East Asia’s e-commerce sector, China’s Alibaba has paid…
Kenya’s mobile digital bank, Branch, has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz…
Nigeria-based S&T Media has closed on seed financing from early-stage technology venture capital firm, EchoVC…
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), and The MasterCard Foundation today announced…