Daily Digest Thursday 25 June 2020
Funding In Southern Africa
HAVAÍC invests in Mobiz
HAVAÍC, a Cape Town based venture capital investment firm, has invested in Mobiz, a South African mobile marketing platform. Read more
Funding In Africa
Ingressive Capital Grows African Tech Fund To $10 MILLION USD
Ingressive capital is a venture capital (VC) group that offers pre-seed and seed funding to startups in business-to-business, business-to-consumer, internet and fintech spaces. Read more
Catalyst Fund selects three African fintech startups for accelerator programme
Three African tech startups have been selected to take part in global inclusive fintech accelerator the Catalyst Fund‘s latest cohort. Read more
Mastercard Acquires Technology Firm FINICITY In A $825 Million Deal
Mastercard Inc. is taking a major step away from traditional card payments with the acquisition of technology firm Finicity in a deal worth $825 million. Read more
Call For Applications & Events
Access Bank W Initiative Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 (Win Mini MBA & a grant of N5 million)
The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa 2020 Campaign is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access to finance and world-class business trainings as well as mentoring opportunities. Read more
Download a copy of GFA’s Guide To Fundraising For African Start-Ups
“GetFundedAfrica is a technology-based, business information platform operated by Afriscaper Research & Consulting Limited with a mission to reduce barriers to funding for African businesses. GFA matches investor ready, African & African-Diaspora owned companies with global investors, leveraging market research, industry data and news aggregation“
GFA’s must read weekend feature entitled Making Finance Work For Agriculture in Africa [Part 2] has been released. Read more
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