Partnerships & Acquisitions
Autochek Acquires Online Car Platforms Cheki Nigeria
Autochek is an automotive technology company that aims to build digital solutions that will enhance and enable a seamless and safe automotive commerce experience across Africa, starting with Nigeria and Ghana. Read more
Airtel Africa Partners MoneyGram To Ease Fund Transfer
The partnership will ensure that more than 19 million Airtel Money customers across 12 countries can route any MoneyGram transfer received from around the world into their mobile money wallets on their phone. Read more
Opinion Corner
China Is Pushing Its Currency Into Africa Through Fintech Partnerships
The recent deal is part of an existing partnership between the two payments heavyweights. In 2013, UnionPay teamed up with Interswitch to allow UnionPay’s cardholders to make transactions at over 11,000 ATMs and 70,000 merchants in West Africa and Uganda. The new partnership extends UnionPay’s reach to more African countries and also allow Chinese travellers to make transactions abroad. Read more
Call For Applications And Other Web-Events
How Drones Can M
ake inspections smart and automated for utilities
For many of these power firms, they have found the answer in drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles have long been deployed by some companies for inspections such as those of power lines, substations, solar farms and wind turbines. Read more
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GFA Attract And GFA Weekly Round Up
GFA Attract Series (VC Edition): Interview With Rob Eloff, Lateral Capital
In this episode of GFA-Attract, Debo discussed with South African born Rob Eloff the co-Founder & managing partner at Lateral Capital, a mission driven venture fund investing in early stage opportunities in Sub-saharan Africa to bridge the gap between capital and opportunities. Watch the exclusive Interview here
GFA Weekly Round Up September 14- September 18
In this week’s episode of the weekly round up we zoomed in on funding activity in Africa from September 14-15 Listen Here
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