Nigerian and African tech news: startups, fintech, telecoms, gadgets, AI and policy.
News on Nigerian and African startups: funding rounds, launches, acquisitions, shutdowns and the founders behind them.
African startups raised over $1 billion across 146 deals in H1 2026. Lagos-based Cascador backed the most, ahead of the IFC and Enza Capital.
Platybooks sends every invoice with a Paystack card payment link built in, and its founder says Paystack's reach makes Nigeria an easy next market.
Adaptive Atelier combines an AI accessibility scanner, a fix-it toolkit and a marketplace of disabled testers. It is now raising a $250,000 round.
Sandi AI digitises farmer savings groups so pooled money buys irrigation equipment for one member at a time. Over 10,000 groups have signed up.
Thally watches a product's code changes, finds every doc, help article and example affected, and opens ready-made updates for the team to approve.
Virgua asks you to check in with a PIN during a trip or date. Miss it, and your chosen contacts get a warning, then an SOS with your…
The R500 million facility from DN Invest will expand Mission Mobile's pay-over-time smartphone plans, which bundle handset repayments with cheaper data.
Mubadala and the EBRD co-led the pre-Series C round, taking Paymob's total funding to about $125 million. It serves over 390,000 merchants.
The new debt doubles AGG's commitment to Spiro to $36 million, funding more e-motorcycles and battery-swap stations in Uganda and Rwanda.
The Flourish-backed pre-seed programme has invested in ChipMango, Talenteo, Paysika, Bekia and Delta Oil, taking its portfolio to 15 companies.
Uber stopped operating in Nigeria on 2 September after about 12 years. We look at why it left, what drivers were paid, and what riders can use instead.
Nigeria was Africa's second-largest startup funding market in H1 2026 behind Egypt, and arguably the strongest for equity once one huge Egyptian deal is excluded.
