India’s Kuku Raises $85M Amid Mobile Content Wars
Kuku, one of India’s fastest growing mobile content platforms, just raised a massive $85 million in funding as competition heats ...
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Ex-Microsoft Execs Build AI Agents to Replace Excel in Finance
Two former Microsoft workers have had enough of watching companies struggle with Excel spreadsheets. They decided to do something about ...
Chowdeck Secures $9M to Drive Growth in Nigeria, Ghana
Chowdeck, one of Africa’s fastest-growing on-demand delivery platforms, has announced it has raised $9 million in Series A funding to ...
How Zabira is Empowering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Financial independence is no longer a distant dream but a daily reality, especially for young entrepreneurs cashing out weekly through innovative ...
Okra refunds investors as it shutters Nigeria’s once-hyped open-banking API
Okra, once the poster child for Nigeria’s open-banking dream, is calling it quits—and rather than run its balance to zero, ...
Okra Co-Founder Fara Ashiru Leaves for UK Startup Role After Company Shutdown
Co-founder and former CEO/CTO of Nigerian fintech company Okra, Fara Ashiru Jituboh, has resigned from her position to become Head ...
Lux Aeterna Develops Reusable Satellites Like SpaceX Rockets
If reusable rockets turned the space-launch business on its head, Denver-based startup Lux Aeterna is betting that reusable satellites will ...
Theranos for Code: Inside Builder.ai’s $1.5 Billion AI-Washing Scam
When Microsoft, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and SoftBank poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Builder.ai, the London-based start-up looked ...
C-One Ventures Purchases Bankly, a Nigerian Fintech
Bankly, a regulated microfinance bank and fintech startup in Nigeria, has been entirely bought by investment firm C-One Ventures. According ...
OmniRetail Raises $20M to Transform West Africa FMCG Supply Chain
Image Source: TechCrunch When Deepankar Rustagi last raised funding for OmniRetail in 2022, investors were bullish on African startups tackling ...