Six African startups have been selected as winners of the 2026 FINCA Ventures Prize Competition, receiving a combined US$400,000 in catalytic funding to accelerate their impact in key resilience ...

Kenyan digital bank Cloud9, which enables cross-border payments and borderless banking for African consumers and businesses, has secured an undisclosed investment from crypto and fintech accelerator ...

Pakistani startup KangarooCare AI is developing intelligent, AI-enabled medical devices that are utilising the latest technologies to improve healthcare outcomes, with a particular focus on neonatal ...

Rwandan startup Entelon is building AI products and custom systems that take over the slow, manual work many African organisations still depend on.

Nigerian fintech startup Bujeti has made Brain, an agentic AI platform for finance teams, publicly available following a two-week private beta.

Egyptian startup SAYR has launched a public transport app built for people who don't already know how a city's transit system works, and picked up more than 2,100 downloads in its first three weeks.

South African prop-tech startup deedy has built a direct-to-consumer marketplace that lets homeowners list, market and sell their property to verified buyers, removing the need for an estate agent and ...

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 game development studio Xelabyte Studios has launched MerjUp, a mobile arcade puzzle game that combines merge mechanics with physics-based, skill-driven gameplay.

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 ...

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, ...