Traction, a Nigeria-based fintech, thinks it can solve this problem using its proprietary solution.
The company provides an app that business owners can use to accept payments, generate invoices, manage inventory, and track payments. It also enables the merchant’s employee’s to confirm payments without having to call their employer.
However, beyond this, Traction has a unique feature which…
Cliqki is a social media marketplace for brands and influencers where content creators can create awareness for their products and services, and offer incentives to users and influencers to help promote their services.
Upon realisation that traditional social media make…
Mastercard has partnered with OPay, a seamless mobile money service provider, to grow a cashless ecosystem and advance digital financial inclusion for millions of people across middle East and Africa.
This partnership is the latest milestone in Mastercard’s emerging…
Nigerian clean-tech startup Kaltani raises $4m to tackle plastic pollution in Africa
May 23, 2022
Nigerian clean-tech plastic waste recycling company Kaltani has raised US$4 million in seed funding to expand its recycling operations across the country.
Founded in Nigeria by Engineer Obi Charles Nnanna, Kaltani aims to solve Africa’s growing plastic waste crisis by promoting the circular economy and recycling best practices.
The startup has a team of 100 spread across its collection…
Nigerian logistics startup Topship has raised a US$2.5 million funding round as it continues to build the “Flexport for Africa”.
Launched in June 2020, Topship allows African businesses to export and import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors…
MARA, a Pan-African crypto exchange, recently launched and announced $23 million in funding from Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX), Distributed Global, TQ Ventures, DIGITAL, Nexo, Huobi Ventures, Day One Ventures, Infinite Capital, DAO Jones (investment DAO backed by…
Kwaba, a Nigerian fintech firm that helps low and middle-income earners divide their annual rent into manageable monthly instalments, has received pre-seed capital to help it expand across Nigeria and Africa.
Kwaba, which was founded by Obinna Molokwu in January 2020 and is aimed at Nigerians wishing to pay rent in a modern method that represents their financial reality, is a digital platform that…
Multigate.io, a Nigerian financial technology firm formed in 2017, leads the future of FinTech and cross-border payments from the continent by providing immediate cross-border funds transfer and enhanced treasury and cash management to businesses and individuals within and…
Interswitch, a Nigerian digital payments company that is Africa’s second unicorn, has raised $110 million to help it expand, according to multiple news reports.
The strategic investment came from LeapFrog Investment and Tana Africa Capital, which will work with Interswitch…
These three Nigerian creators Soliudeen Ogunsola, Gbadebo Bello, and Ajibola Akelebe have actively created digital content that people have used globally. Soliudeen Ogunsola is a product designer who writes down his design ideas, creates design templates, and publishes them online. Gbadebo Bello, a software engineer, expresses himself as well as the entire technical approach in his…