African technologists and entrepreneurs are applying blockchain in innovative ways, creating a new financial infrastructure for the continent with wide-ranging benefits, including for the humanitarian ...

Nigerian startup BlueBic has built an offline-resilient school information system (SIS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for African primary, secondary and multi-campus K-12 schools, ...

Twelve companies represented in the AT50 Index (Africa Tech 50) took part in the AT50 Cairo Market Open at the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) on September 22, bringing together founders, regulators, ...

Fifty-eight African tech startups raised just shy of US$583 million in funding in the third quarter of 2026, making it the most successful quarter of the year so far and boosting the chance that ...

Cameroonian startup lensX has launched an Alibaba-style online marketplace connecting businesses, vendors and customers across Africa, with augmented reality (AR) shopping on its longer-term roadmap.

A Kenyan High Court has ordered Copia Kenya, the e-commerce company that raised over US$120 million to serve consumers outside the country’s major cities, into liquidation after more than two years of ...

Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative designed to help African health-tech startups scale and commercialise their offerings, announced four strategic partnerships between ...

Egyptian startup Paymob, the leading payments infrastructure service provider in the MENA region, has secured US$35 million in a pre-Series C funding round to support its ongoing expansion across the ...

South African startup Exten AI has developed an AI-native platform that lets entrepreneurs with no coding skills build working software applications just by describing them in everyday language.

At 19, Wendy Therisanyo Keabetswe received a government award after being recognised as one of Botswana’s top national GCSE achievers. The opportunity gave her an early entry point into ...

Ghanaian agri-tech startup Complete Farmer has secured a US$2.4 million convertible loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC)  to scale up and finance inputs and agronomy services for ...

Startup and technology event Latitude59 is returning to Kenya for the fourth year, with applications now open for the Kenya Pitch Competition.