Mark and Priscilla have sold Facebook shares worth nearly $95 million for charity and impact investing.…
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Enko Education, a private school network founded by Cyrille Nkontchou and Eric Pignot, has raised…
Pan-African private equity investor Duet Group is teaming up with Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria…
The first round of the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund is now open for applications…
Entries are now being accepted for Seedstars Lagos as the Seedstars World returns to Nigeria’s…
Line, the operator of a Japanese messaging app that’s popular in Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and…
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…