Tag: Africa

San Francisco and Lagos-based Flutterwave aims to beef up its technological and business muscles on the back of its new $35m Series B round.

Hot on the heels of launching its identity verification product in August 2019, VerifyMe Nigeria has closed a new investment round.

P2P payment startup Chipper Cash has secured new investment to expand into new African markets.

Turaco has netted $1.2m in a seed round. The Kenyan InsurTech startup will use it to expand into new markets and place new pilots and partnerships.

South African InsurTech startup Inclusivity Solutions has not sold a single policy in its native country, but has already spread across Africa and is now looking to go beyond the continent.

Interswitch, the digital payments firm, has confirmed that it has reached a $1bn valuation after Visa, the payments company, invested in the enterprise. While it...

Having already cemented its position as one of the top three nations for FinTech in Africa, Kenya has passed a new law to attract more tech investments.

Modus Capital, a hybrid venture capital firm, has released its first regional fund with $75m at its disposal.

AZA Group, which is the parent company of FinTechs BitPesa, TransferZero and BFX, has collected $15m in debt financing from The Development Bank of Southern Africa.

The backer and incubator of several FinTech companies Rocket Internet has had a smashing start of 2019.