South Africa’s Verascient Raises $1.2M as Enterprise AI Moves From Tools to Infrastructure
Cape Town-founded Verascient has raised $1.2 million to build enterprise AI infrastructure that turns fragmented company…
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Nigeria’s Intron Pushes African Voice AI Beyond One-Language Systems
Nigeria's Intron has launched Sahara v2.5, expanding African voice AI support for natural language mixing across…
DRC’s $1.26B Lobito Rail Concession Raises the Stakes for Africa’s Copper Corridor
The Democratic Republic of Congo has signed a 30-year concession with Mota-Engil Africa to modernise the…
Nigeria’s Zoni Bets Prepaid WiFi Can Make Starlink Work for African Neighbourhoods
Ibadan-based Zoni has launched a prepaid WiFi-token model that lets users buy time-boxed internet access from…
Nigeria’s Zoni Bets Prepaid WiFi Can Make Starlink Work for African Neighbourhoods
Ibadan-based Zoni has launched a prepaid WiFi-token model that lets users buy time-boxed internet access from…
Kenyan AI Startup Flowt Targets Africa’s Climate SME Lending Gap
Nairobi-based Flowt has raised pre-seed backing to turn messy SME financial records into lender-ready data for…
African Union Credit Rating Agency Plan Puts Borrowing Costs in the Spotlight
The African Union-backed African Peer Review Mechanism plans to launch a continent-wide credit rating agency in…
Kenya’s New Parcel Rules Put Delivery Apps Under Tighter Digital Oversight
Kenya is moving app-based parcel delivery into a stricter compliance regime, requiring platforms to document senders,…
Ventures Platform’s $84M Fund II Signals a More Selective African Startup Market
Ventures Platform has closed its oversubscribed $84 million Fund II, giving African founders fresh early-stage capital…
Kenya’s Insect Fertiliser Shift Turns Soil Recovery Into a Business Opportunity
Kenyan farmers are turning redworms and black soldier fly larvae into organic fertiliser as soil degradation…
Zimbabwe’s Maize Rebound Turns Import Controls Into a Food-Security Test
Zimbabwe's stronger maize harvest has reduced import pressure and revived a policy debate over local procurement,…
Tanzania’s LNG Opportunity Grows as Hormuz Turmoil Reshapes Energy Security
Equinor says disruption around the Strait of Hormuz makes Tanzania's multibillion-dollar LNG project more attractive to…