The leading Nigeria fintech platform shares the below on its twitter page:
Hi team We’re partnering with our friends
@VC4Africa
to help women founders of fast-growing startups across Africa to access capital to grow their products. If this is you, apply here to get the support you need. Deadline: Friday, May 27
According press release on VC4A website:
Calling for investor-ready scale-ups…
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…
Cliqki Reimagining the advertising market
May 24, 2022
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 market strategy where the technology company is collaborating with growing Fintech’s such as OPay to expand access to digital…
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…
Nigerian startup, Topship secures $2.5 million
May 19, 2022
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 Mike Shinoda, Steve Aoki and Disclosure), and nearly 100 other crypto investors, and angels including Amit Bhatia and Hamad…
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…
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…
Nigeria Fintech Interswitch raises $110m
May 13, 2022
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 to “advance the payment ecosystem across the continent,” according to a Thursday (May 12) news release,
Founded 10…

