Kenyan taxi-hailing Little to launch in Ghana with $3mil injection
Kenyan taxi-hailing firm Little will launch in Ghana with $3mil (Sh323.85) from its mother company Craft Silicon as it begins to execute its West Africa expansion. This expansion has been…
Malian SolarX raises undisclosed Series A for regional growth
Mali based SolarX raises undisclosed series A fund from Energy Access Ventures (EAV), a renewable energy seed investment fund. The company supplies solar energy systems for electricity and solar pumping…
Egyptian bus-hailing service Swvl hit with security breach
Egyptian startup Swvl announced a security breach affecting user data including names, email addresses and phone numbers of its customers. The company took action to log out all its users…
Fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $13.8million
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.
Swvl raises over $20mil in pre-COVID-19 funding round
North Africa focused tech blog Menabytes reports that Egyptian company Swvl, which runs a bus-hailing service in Egypt, Kenya and Pakistan raised raised over $20 million in a new round…