Mastercard has partnered with Busha, a pan-African digital asset exchange, to expand Mastercard Crypto Credential across Africa and bring greater trust and simplicity to digital asset transfers.

Kenyan startup Flowcart has entered a strategic collaboration with Mastercard to embed secure, seamless card payments directly within social and conversational commerce journeys.

Nigerian startup Mariam Grey is an AI-powered platform that connects patients to verified pharmacies and licensed pharmacists remotely, allowing them to get prescriptions filled and access ...

Kenyan electric mobility startup ARC Ride has completed a US$33.3 million financing round to accelerate the rollout of its battery swapping infrastructure and expand access to affordable electric ...

Egyptian startup Velents, which specialises in enterprise AI solutions, has continued its rapid expansion across the MENA region by launching in Bahrain.

The Cape Town-based Injini, an ed-tech incubator, accelerator and think tank, has launched its AI for Education venture builder and incubation programme, which takes pre-formed teams from the ideation ...

Ugandan artificial intelligence (AI) startup SANDI AI Technologies has emerged Grand Prize winner of the GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize 2026, receiving US$50,000 in growth funding for its innovative ...

Nigerian startups Trade Lenda and AirSmat have raised a combined US$450,000 from the Africa Ecosystem Catalysts Facility, a ...

Nigerian startup Shuttlers, the technology-enabled shared mobility platform, has launched a new service that offers commuters a scheduled and shared ride from doorstep to destination, with the option ...

Moroccan e-health startup One Med Link is developing an AI-powered, interoperable clinical workflow and health-data platform.

The student-founded Ghanaian climate-smart agri-tech startup Wobil Technologies is designing, manufacturing, and deploying ...

Cascador, a platform for growth-stage founders building transformative businesses, has selected 10 growth-stage Nigerian companies for its 2026 ScaleUp programme, which equips entrepreneurs with the ...