African technology and startup publication covering innovation, entrepreneurship, funding, digital business and consumer technology.
I’ve been watching something fascinating unfold in Kenya over the past 18 months, and it’s making me rethink how people spend their free time. My cousin in Nairobi used to spend 45 minutes every evening watching football highlights on his…
The terms get used interchangeably in most crypto marketing material, which creates genuine confusion when a creator or community manager tries to understand what they are signing up for. A crypto referral program and a crypto affiliate…
Safaricom Plc is opening its Ziidi Shari’ah Money Market Fund to its more than 41 million M-PESA customers, allowing them to invest from as little as Ksh 100 through the mobile-money platform. The rollout gives Safaricom a new channel for…
Safaricom Plc is taking its Home Internet teams into residential estates as the telecom operator seeks to deepen fibre adoption in areas already covered by its network. The company recently held a Home Internet Clinic at Avenue Park Phase…
Naulisako, a digital fare collection platform, has won the third edition of the GirlCode Kenya Hackathon, with its four-member team developing a solution designed to improve payments and financial tracking in the country’s public transport…
Ghanaian agri-tech company Complete Farmer has secured a $2.4 million convertible loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to expand financing for smallholder farmers and scale its agricultural input and agronomy services. The…
Nairobi-based off-grid solar company Sun King has secured a $5 million Series D equity investment from Acumen to expand its operations in Zambia and use the capital to unlock additional local-currency debt. The investment, made through…
Samsung’s history in technology is marked by a series of products and technologies that challenged established ideas about how people use electronics. The company traces its origins to 1938, while Samsung Electronics was established in…
Kenyan-American startup Satlyt has raised $8 million in Seed funding to develop software that turns satellites into virtual artificial intelligence data centers, allowing spacecraft to process data and run AI applications in orbit rather…
Samsung Electronics Co. introduced its Galaxy Tab S12 lineup, a pair of premium tablets that the company says offer its strongest performance yet in a thinner body, as it leans on AI features and bundled creative apps to court students,…
African startups rarely stay in one market for long. A fintech that proves itself in Nairobi looks at Kampala and Dar es Salaam. A logistics platform born in Lagos eyes Accra and Abidjan. A Cape Town e-commerce brand tests demand in…
SBM Bank Kenya has partnered with Dr. Stasch Clinic & MediSpa to give eligible retail customers a 10% benefit on selected aesthetic and wellness treatments when they pay with an SBM card. This offer is for selected services such as…
Wellness technology is moving beyond step counters and workout trackers as consumers increasingly look for connected tools that can help them understand how they move, recover, sleep and spend their downtime. The shift is creating a…
Safaricom and Pesapal are expanding digital payment options at physical points of sale, introducing Dynamic Scan-to-Pay and Tap-to-Pay through Pesapal’s POS devices as the companies seek to make M-PESA transactions faster and reduce manual…
Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into the private lives of Kenyans, with a growing number of digitally engaged users turning to chatbots for emotional support, personal advice and questions they have not shared with other people.…
Standard Chartered Plc’s charitable arm awarded 9 million Kenyan shillings (about $70,000) in grants to seven women-led technology startups, part of a program aimed at closing the funding gap for female founders in East Africa’s largest…
Latitude59 is returning to Kenya for the fourth consecutive year, with applications now open for its 2026 Kenya Pitch Competition, offering early-stage startups across Africa a chance to compete for non-equity funding, partner prizes and a…
Kenya-based digital pharmacy MYDAWA has partnered with Endless Health to develop a digital-first model for hypertension and diabetes care, one of four new healthtech deals announced at Investing in Innovation Africa’s (i3) fourth annual…
Online MBOX to PST converter services offer a convenient way to quickly convert MBOX files toPST format. They support mailbox archives created or exported from email clients like MozillaThunderbird, Eudora, Apple Mail, etc., to Outlook PST…
The Africa Financial Summit will hold its 2026 annual meeting in Luanda on Nov. 3 and 4, bringing more than 1,250 financial-sector executives, regulators, investors and policymakers to Angola as the country seeks to modernize its banking…
KejaMove, the Nairobi-based moving and relocation company, has launched what it says is Africa’s first automated moving quotation service inside WhatsApp. The new tool, called the KejaMove AI Assistant, lets customers get a calculated,…
Chari has added former Visa executive Aurélien Pichon to its board as an independent director as the Moroccan fintech shifts from serving retailers to building financial infrastructure for banks, telcos, corporations and fintechs across…
Luno has acquired Kenyan cross-border payments company GTXN, bringing licensed collection and payout infrastructure into the cryptocurrency platform as it expands further into business payments across emerging markets. The deal brings…
PawaPay has secured a Payment Service Provider licence in Kenya after processing three billion mobile-money transactions and more than €10 billion in payments across the continent. The company, operating in Kenya through Quidexplus Kenya…
