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Bolt Business records double-digit growth in Nigeria, now services First Bank, Interswitch, Chowdeck, 16 others
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (277+ words) Bolt Business, the corporate mobility vertical of the e-hailing platform, has announced double-digit growth in Nigeria over the last 12 years. This was disclosed in a statement by the company and seen by Technext. While the company failed to put a…...
How Arden Elegbe's Zenfinder is replacing Africa's word-of-mouth referral network
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (902+ words) Heavy reliance on informal, word-of-mouth referrals is a shared frustration across Nigeria. It’s a cultural norm born out of necessity, not efficiency, and exactly the kind of systemic friction Arden Elegbe wants to eradicate. Growing up between Nigeria and the…...
Why Yellow Card's Gillian Darko says Africa will lead the global stablecoin revolution
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (849+ words) Africa doesn’t trade with itself, and that failure has quietly become one of the biggest opportunities in global finance. Fragmented currencies, punishing transfer fees and banks that treat cross-border payments as an afterthought have left the continent searching for solutions....
Tech trivia with Adenike Adejobi, IT Audit Analyst at Zedcrest
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (603+ words) Meet Adenike Adejobi, an Information Technology Audit Analyst at Zedcrest Group, one of Africa’s premier financial powerhouses. She holds a B.Tech in Cybersecurity from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). Adenike’s entry into tech was a deliberate build. While…...
Zimbabwe’s crypto regulation 2026: Inside the shift from prohibition to policy
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (297+ words) In a country where modern economic history is written in the harsh ink of currency volatility, digital assets stopped being a speculative gamble; they became a financial necessity. After years of banishing the crypto sector to the regulatory wilderness, Zimbabwe…...
South African fintech Happy Pay raises $5m to scale zero-interest BNPL
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (468+ words) Cape Town-based buy now, pay later startup Happy Pay has raised $5 million in seed funding to expand its merchant-funded payment platform, which charges consumers no interest or fees. Partech, a Paris-headquartered venture capital firm, led the round, with participation from…...
African fintech funding: Top H1 2026 raises & trends
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (593+ words) African startups closed the first half of 2026 with a reported $1.44 billion in funding, slightly ahead of the $1.42 billion raised during the same period in 2025. Yet, investors backed far fewer companies, with 146 disclosed deals in H1 2026 compared with 252 a year earlier, concentrating…...
Meet the 3 African fintech founders on Forbes 50 list
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (889+ words) When Forbes published its 11th annual Fintech 50 list, the headline story was about an industry under pressure. Funding for private fintech entities, though recovering to $53 billion in 2024, remains a fraction of the $152 billion invested at the sector’s peak in 2021. Valuations are…...
How Raba Partnership's double down inspired South African Ezeebit's $2.05 million seed raise
9+ mon, 3+ day ago (618+ words) Raba Partnership has doubled down on its conviction in African fintech. The firm has led a $2.05 million seed funding round in South African crypto payments startup Ezeebit, backing a vision it believes is uniquely positioned to solve real commercial and…...
How PiggyVest went from ₦21 million in savings to one of Nigeria's biggest fintechs
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (772+ words) In its first year, PiggyVest recorded ₦21 million in savings. And honestly, that number’s worth sitting with for a minute. Not because the figure is impressive by today’s standards, but because of what it represents. Think about this for a second....