LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
New Ed-Tech Startup Seeks to Make Online Education Accessible to All
By Brand Spot
August 26, 2022
Developed and operated by LianzSly, EduOnline is an affordable web-based e-learning platform that innovatively meets students, parents, and schools needs by offering a unique online learning experience. Birthed during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
Koolboks secures over Ksh 200 Million in funding to help Scale Solar Refrigeration across Africa
August 18, 2022
Koolboks, the sustainable cooling company providing accessible cold storage solutions to businesses across Africa, has closed a $2.5M Seed funding round, led by Aruwa Capital Management and with participation from Acumen, Blue Earth Capital, All…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
Moringa raises an undisclosed amount in series A funding led by Proparco
June 27, 2022
Building on the Seed Investment by DOB Equity and USD 9.5m funding by Mastercard Foundation, Moringa is excited to have recently received an investment from Proparco to support its expansion outside Kenya. This has seen…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
mTek Secures $3m in Funding from the Finclusion Group
By Brand Spot
June 20, 2022
Kenyan insurtech and digital insurance platform mTek has secured an additional investment commitment from African-focused fintech platform, Finclusion Group, to-date totaling $3 million (KSh 340 million) – through both debt and equity. The intensified cooperation seeks to accelerate mTek’s growth into the Kenyan marketplace through continual improvements to the platform and via the expansion of its customer base. mTek’s Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Bente Krogmann, stated that the investment is a milestone for the organization and an indication of Pan-African investors’ confidence in the insurtech’s purpose, business model and philosophy. “With this investment, we will be able to commence our expansion within Kenya through 25 Finclusion Group branches where we will offer agents trainings. The investment will help us to create fully digital, market-ready insurance offerings that will be both easily accessible and affordable for the uninsured. We hope to be able to further expand into six African countries over the next two years,” said Ms. Krogmann. Finclusion Group is an African-focused fintech platform building out a complete neobank offering for its users. Today, Finclusion Group provides among its myriad services, earned-wage access, BNPL and a direct credit offering, hosting a presence in South Africa, Eswatini and Namibia in Southern Africa, and Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. Finclusion Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Timothy Nuy, added that mTek’s capability to offer paperless insurance addressed a critical market pain-point, while noting that mTek’s continued growth and customer value-addition aligns perfectly with the fintech platform’s vision and expansion model. “As a Group, we remain committed to driving financial inclusion on the African continent through innovative technology and also significant investments that can broker lasting change, identifying and addressing market needs, both present and future. mTek’s platform has allowed for greater transparency in both the insurance and telehealth industries and we are pleased to partner with such technology that delivers – for the first time – paperless insurance in Africa,” said Mr. Nuy. “As health financing reforms in Kenya have peaked stakeholder interests from the both the public and private sector, we take a long-game approach to this investment. The ‘one stop shop’, the holistic plug and play insurance tech offering pioneered by mTek is replicable nation on nation, the continent over. We look forward to playing a lead role in that process,” Nuy added. Since launching its platform in 2020, mTek has seen consistent and compelling growth, doubling its customer base and gross written premium every quarter to date through its revolutionary 100% paperless insurance. The insurtech has also partnered with over 35 Kenyan underwriters to consistently provide its clients with a better and transparent experience while purchasing and renewing their insurance policies. mTek expects to reach one (1) million users through its innovative insurance offering by 2024 as it achieves its mission to provide insurance to the uninsured. Read: Digital Insurance Solutions; Key in Increasing Uptake
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
FoondaMate raises $2million to democratise learning and close global education inequality gaps with its AI-powered study chatbot
By Brand Spot
May 26, 2022
FoondaMate – the chat-based, AI-powered study buddy – has raised a $2million Seed round, led by LocalGlobe. Emerge Education, Odunayo Eweniyi via FirstCheckAfrica, Iyin Aboyeji via Future Africa, and LoftyInc also participated in the round, alongside angels…
Cassava Technologies Closes a $90 Million Equity Investment Round
December 18, 2024
Hisa App Joins NVIDIA Inception programme
By Brand Spot
May 19, 2022
Hisa, the mobile investment platform, has today announced its selection to join NVIDIA Inception, a programme designed to nurture startups revolutionizing industries with advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. NVIDIA Inception, which includes…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
ROAM Jobs Rebrands to Become The African Talent Company
By Brand Spot
May 10, 2022
ROAM Jobs has today officially announced its rebranding to become The African Talent Company. You may have not heard about ROAM jobs but you definitely have heard about some of the brands in its portfolio…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
Standard Chartered Bank Partners With iBizAfrica for the 5th cohort of the Women in Tech incubator program
March 10, 2022
Standard Chartered Bank in partnership with @iBizAfrica-Strathmore University has today launched the 5th cohort of the Women in Tech incubator program. The program, which is an initiative of Standard Chartered in partnership with Strathmore University’s @iBizAfrica Incubation Centre, aims at championing for more…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024
Microsoft’s Founders Hub to Launch in Africa seeking to support 10,000 African start-ups in five years
March 3, 2022
Under the remit of its recently established Africa Transformation Office (ATO), Microsoft has announced new initiatives to accelerate the growth of 10,000 African start-ups and fast-track investment in Africa’s start-up ecosystem over the next five…
LG Unveils 2025 QNED evo Lineup
December 20, 2024