Mozambique: Loon Signs Deal to Expand Commercial Internet Service to Mozambique

Loon, the Alphabet -owned company that's using stratospheric balloons to provide high-speed bandwidth to hard-to-serve areas without strong ground infrastructure, has signed a new… Read more »

Africa: Andela CEO Confirms Staff Cuts As Layoffs Hit African Tech

Africa-focused tech talent accelerator Andela has let go 135 employees, CEO Jeremy Johnson confirmed to TechCrunch. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Okra Raises $1m From Tlcom Connecting Bank Accounts to Apps

A new Nigerian fintech venture, Okra, has racked up a unique mix of accomplishments in less than a year. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Tech Ecosystem Responds to COVID-19

In March, the virus gripping the world -- COVID-19 -- started to spread in Africa. In short order, actors across the continent's tech ecosystem began to step up to stem the spread. Read more »

South Africa: Zindi Taps 12,000 African Data Scientists for Solutions to COVID-19

Since its inception, Cape Town based crowdsolving startup Zindi has been building a database of data scientists across Africa. Read more »

Africa: Africa Turns to Mobile Payments As a Tool to Curb COVID-19

Africa is using digital finance as a means to stem the spread of COVID-19. Read more »

Africa: CcHub Funds Tech to Curb COVID-19 On Concerns of an Africa Outbreak

Africa's largest innovation incubator, CcHub, will offer funding and engineering support to tech projects aimed at curbing COVID-19 and its social and economic impact. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Turns to Its Mobile-Money Dominance to Stem the Spread of COVID-1919

Kenya's largest teleco, Safaricom, will implement a fee-waiver on East Africa's leading mobile-money product, M-Pesa, to reduce the physical exchange of currency in response to the… Read more »

Africa: Visa Partners With Paga On Payments and Fintech for Africa and Abroad

Visa has entered a partnership with Nigeria based startup Paga on payments and technology. Read more »

Africa: Twitter CEO's Weak Argument Why Investors Shouldn't Fire Him

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey might not spend six months a year in Africa, claims the real product development is under the hood, and gives an excuse for deleting Vine before it could… Read more »

South Africa: Did African Startups Raise U.S.$496 Million, U.S.$1 Billion or U.S.$2 Billion in 2019?

Five years ago, it was hard to come by any numbers for annual VC investment in Africa. These days the challenge is choosing which number to follow. Read more »

Kenya: Logistics Startup Sendy Raises U.S.$20 Million Round Backed By Toyota

Kenyan company Sendy — with an on-demand platform that connects clients to drivers and vehicles for goods delivery — has raised a $20 million Series B led by Atlantica… Read more »

Africa: Bolt Raises €50m in Venture Debt From the EU to Expand Its Ride-Hailing Business

Bolt, the billion-dollar startup out of Estonia that's building a ride-hailing, scooter and food delivery business across Europe and Africa, has picked up a tranche of funding in… Read more »

Nigeria: Palmpay Launches in Nigeria On $40m Round Led By China's Transsion

Africa focused payment startup PalmPay has launched in Nigeria after raising a $40 million seed-round led by Chinese mobile-phone maker Transsion. Read more »

Nigeria: Chaka Opens Up Global Investing to Africa's Most Populous Nation

Fintech startup Chaka aims to open up online investingd to Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria. Read more »

Africa: African Logistics Startup Lori Systems Raises Series a Led By Chinese Investors

African on-demand trucking logistics company Lori Systems has raised a Series A round led by Chinese investors Hillhouse Capital and Crystal Stream Capital. Read more »

Nigeria: Solar-Based ISP Startup Tizeti Launches 4G LTE Network in Nigeria

Nigerian internet service provider Tizeti has launched its first 4G LTE network. Read more »

Senegal: Senegal's Nima Codes to Launch Address App in 15 African Countries

Senegalese startup NIMA Codes - a digital mapping service for locations without formal addresses - has upgraded its app and plans to go live in 15 African countries in 2020. Read more »

Africa: Bosun Tijani Talks Strategy As CEO of Africa's New Largest Tech Hub

With CcHub's acquisition of iHub in September, Nigerian Bosun Tijani is at the helm of (arguably) the largest tech network in Africa. Read more »

Africa: Kenya's Twiga Foods Eyes West Africa After U.S.$30 Million Raise Led By Goldman

Kenya's Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs. Read more »

Africa: Revisiting Jumia's Jforce Scandal and Citron's Short-Sell Claims

In advance of Jumia's November financial reporting, it's worth revisiting the company's second-quarter results, the downside of which included some negative news beyond losses. Read more »

South Africa: Naspers Foundry Is Open for South African Startup Pitches, CEO Says

Naspers' 1.4 billion rand (≈$100 million) VC fund to support South African startups - Naspers Foundry - is accepting pitches, after making its first investment in online… Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan Telco Safaricom's Alpha Incubator Faces Uncertain Future

Safaricom's Nairobi based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain future, according to sources. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's #StopRobbingUs Campaign Could Spur Tech Advocacy Group, CEOs Say

Nigeria's #StopRobbingUs campaign to curb police harassment of techies could grow into a formal lobbying group for the country's tech sector, according to founders Bosun Tijani and… Read more »

Africa: The Station - a New Self-Driving Car Startup, Inside Tesla's V10 Software, Lilium's Big Round

If you haven't heard, TechCrunch has officially launched a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point B -- today and in the future --… Read more »