2023-4-19 16:52 |
Africa witnessed a 429% YoY increase in venture funding in 2022, with the majority of funding coming from Seychelles and South Africa. origin »
2023-4-19 16:52 |
Africa witnessed a 429% YoY increase in venture funding in 2022, with the majority of funding coming from Seychelles and South Africa. origin »
African crypto VC funding grew 400% in 2022 to $474 million, beating global investment in the space by 4%, The post Crypto VC Investments in Africa Top $400 Million in 2022, but Challenges Remain appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-4-18 21:00 | |
VC firms Bitkraft Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz participated in the funding round, which aims to advance Web3 gaming in Africa.
2023-1-17 18:00 | |
The mining company focuses on rural communities in East Africa and intends to increase electricity and energy access for the region.
2022-12-7 10:45 | |
The African Blockchain Report 2021 by Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) and Standard Bank has revealed that crypto startups in Africa saw more venture funding in the first quarter of 2022 than in 2021.
2022-5-24 04:30 | |
While Africa has not yet seen a “blockchain mega-deal,” the report notes that crypto unicorns might emerge from the region in two to three years.
2022-5-24 10:05 | |
African bitcoin exchange Yellow Card raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, the biggest yet in the continent.
2021-9-29 18:53 | |
Crypto-asset trading platform Rain Financial. Inc. has raised $6 million in the Series A funding round led by venture-capital firm Middle East Venture Partners. Other investors in the four-year-old company that mainly serves users in the Middle East and North Africa include Coinbase, the biggest crypto exchange in the US, Saudi Arabian private-equity investor Vision […] The post Crypto Exchange, Rain Financial, Secures Backing from Coinbase Following ‘Tremendous Growth’ first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-1-19 20:34 | |
The Chainlink Community Grant Program is funding a blockchain project to aid smallholder farmers in Kenya. Using Blockchain to Help Farmers In a recent announcement, the Chainlink Community Grant Program revealed that it was funding a low-cost insurance project between decentralized insurance protocol named Etherisc and ACRE Africa, an Africa-based micro-insurance issuer.
2020-11-16 15:00 | |
Startup capital in Africa still favors foreign founders at the expense of homegrown projects. A proposal to break the cycle.
2020-11-12 19:00 | |
Finastra launches a microfinance initiative in Africa to reduce SME funding gap and accelerate financial inclusion to achieve equality of access to financial services
2020-9-22 13:04 | |
A South Africa based cryptocurrency exchange, Valr has just raised $3. 4 million in a Series A funding round led by 100x Group, the parent company to Bitmex. The funding round, in which 4Di Capital also participated, however, does not change Valr’s controlling shareholder structure.
2020-7-22 01:00 | |
Nigerian fintech Opay — founded by crypto-supporting web browser Opera — has raised $120 million in series B funding to scale its payments solution across Africa
2019-11-18 14:05 | |
As a community health worker tasked with tracking infant vaccinations in Kenya, Collince Oluoch was overwhelmed by the burdens of the job. He encountered mothers with no record of their children’s vaccinations, caregivers who could not remember clinic visits and colleagues who fudged figures.
2019-5-5 19:08 | |
The South Africa-based cryptocurrency exchange Coindirect has secured $1. 13 million in funding, reported FinSMEs on February 21, 2019. This first funding round was led by Concentric as well as participation from crypto wallet provider Blockchain.
2019-2-22 14:00 | |
Cryptocurrencies and the underpinning blockchain technology have continued to transform lives in Africa. The technology has been applied in Kenya to boost agriculture by Twiga Foods. In Uganda, millions of households have been connected to solar power by a crypto initiative.
2019-2-12 23:03 | |
As expected, January was a quiet month in African tech, but there was just enough news — good and bad — to make a monthly wrap worthwhile. Internet shutdowns were all the rage among governments on the continent in 2018, and the early signs are that is set to continue in 2019.
2019-2-5 15:35 | |
December is an expensive month for anyone, and tech companies across Africa went on a fundraising spree in advance of the festive period last month. Companies from across the continent, in a variety of sectors, raised funding in December.
2019-1-7 13:33 | |
Huobi Group revealed at the World Blockchain Summit in Dubai that the company is looking to expand its operations to the Middle Eastern, African and South Asian markets in a bid to provide services to its unbanked or underbanked residents.
2018-10-26 21:07 | |
Adhara Gets $15 Million Funding to Bring Blockchain Privacy to Central Banks Adhara, a blockchain startup has won $15 Million Funding from Consensys, the ethereum design studio to bring blockchain privacy to Central Banks.
2018-10-16 00:40 | |
Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first.
2018-10-6 16:37 | |
There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
In most parts of Africa, cryptocurrency is yet to be fully adapted and regulated. While researchers have consistently shown the massive impact of the technology behind Blockchain and digital currency, Africa is still yet to fully legalize any major company and organization that provides cryptocurrency services.
2018-7-14 22:08 | |