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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

South African mobile technology company Mission Mobile will receive up to ZAR500 million (US$30.1 million) in funding from investment holding company DN Invest (DNI) to help mobile network operators ...

South African payment technology company Walletdoc is bringing Visa Payment Passkeys to local merchants, enabling them to offer shoppers a faster, more secure and passwordless online checkout.

African ed-tech incubator and accelerator Injini will host the fifth edition of South African EdTech Week in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, with the event moving to Gauteng for the first ...

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.