Interswitch
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Partnerships
Interswitch and ACI Worldwide Strengthen Partnership to Modernize Sub-Saharan Africa Payments
ACI Worldwide, a global player in mission-critical, real-time payments software, and Interswitch Group, Africa’s integrated payments and digital commerce company,…
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Startup Stats
Meet the 7 Fintech Unicorns in Africa
A unicorn means something quite different in investor circles and the tech startup ecosystem. The term is used to describe…
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Tech
MEST Africa 2023 Entrepreneurial Training Program for Tech Startups
MEST offers a 12-month graduate-level training to aspiring entrepreneurs across the African continent. The entrepreneurial training program in business, communications,…
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Funding
Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital
Interswitch has received $110 million in joint investment from LeapFrog investments and Tiana Africa Capital, according to a statement released by the…
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Nigerian mobility startup, Shuttlers, lands US$1.6mn to expand across Africa
Shuttlers, a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has bagged…
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Fintech
Senegal-based fintech, Wave, Becomes Francophone Africa 1st Unicorn After Secures $200mn Funding
The U.S and Senegal-based mobile money startup, Wave, have become the first unicorn in francophone Africa after raising $200 million…
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Growing Mobile Money in Africa Driven by Startup “Unicorns”
A new report shows that Africa’s growing adoption of mobile money is driven by the number of emerging “unicorns” in the…
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Nigeria’s Fintech Startup Flutterwave, Secures $170m In Series C Round, Now Valued At $1bn
Flutterwave, a Lagos and San Francisco-based financial payments startup, has announced it has raised $170m from leading investors, putting it…
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Why Only 14 West African Startups Raised $10m+ From 2010-2020
Analysts have been worried at the dearth of the birth of Unicorns in Africa since after the emergence of Jumia, and to some extent, InterSwitch,…
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China is pushing its currency into Africa through fintech partnerships
On September 9, UnionPay International announced a partnership with Interswitch East Africa, the regional business of the Nigerian-based Interswitch Group. Under the partnership,…
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