| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.05.2026 | Nala Secures Up To $50M in Debt Financing | NALA, a NYC-based developer of global stablecoin payments infrastructure, secured up to $50m in debt financing.
The credit facility was provided by Liquidity (through Mars Growth Capital, a joint venture between Liquidity and MUFG Bank Ltd)... |
| 05.11.2025 | Tanzania: How an Internet Blackout Affected Tanzania's Election | What's the context? A nationwide internet outage during last week's vote fits a pattern of electoral interference and may fuel abuses, activists say.
NAIROBI - A five-day internet shutdown during Tanzania's disputed election and the protest... |
| 07.08.2025 | Pesa acquires IMTO licence to scale its people-first cross-border payment approach | Pesa, a leading bootstrapped Nigerian cross-border payment service, has acquired an IMTO licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This licence allows the company to process the transfer of funds from abroad to individuals or entities... |
| 04.06.2025 | Africa’s 500 million person question (Part 2): The quest for a new economic model | This is part 2 of a 2-part series. We wrote a summary of part 1 on TechCabal, where we then invited people to read the full piece on our blog. Below, we are sharing the summary of part 2, and we have again written a longer piece here that w... |
| 22.05.2025 | The Ripple Effect: How a 5% Remittance Tax Could Reshape Africa's Economies | A storm brews on the horizon. The U.S. government is poised to impose a 5% tax on remittances sent by non-citizens. This proposal, dubbed “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” threatens to siphon off an estimated $2.8 billion from Sub-Saharan Afric... |
| 20.05.2025 | U.S. 5% remittance tax plan to threaten $2.8 billion of Africa’s foreign inflows | A proposed U.S. bill to impose a 5% tax on all outbound remittance transfers from non-citizens could divert as much as $2.8 billion from Sub-Saharan African economies in 2025, threatening one of the region’s most stable sources of foreign e... |
| 13.02.2025 | The Digital Revolution in School Payments: ParentSquare's Game-Changer | In the ever-evolving landscape of education technology, simplicity is the golden key. ParentSquare, a titan in digital family engagement, has unveiled a new feature that promises to transform how schools handle payments. Enter ParentSquare ... |
| 12.02.2025 | Fintechs rush for FX transactions will only benefit customers and startups with scale | Nigerian fintechs, drawn to the stability of dollar-based transactions, are increasingly building consumer-focused cross-border (FX) transaction products. While this collective push will benefit consumers through more options and a possible... |
| 31.01.2025 | The Rise of Green Tech and PropTech: A New Era of Investment in Europe | The European startup landscape is buzzing. Investment flows like a river, carving new paths in the realms of Green Tech and PropTech. The latest reports reveal a surge in funding, innovation, and ambition. Companies are not just surviving; ... |
| 31.01.2025 | +++ Amboss +++ PropTech +++ PT1 +++ Encourage Ventures +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 31. Januar) #STARTUPTICKER
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+++ IPO-Vorbereitungen. Das Berliner EdTech Amboss, das Mediziner... |
| 31.10.2024 | YC-backed Bamboo expands to Canada with remittance product | Bamboo, the Y Combinator-backed investment app that allows Africans to buy and trade local and international stocks, is expanding to Canada after securing the country’s Money Service Business (MSB) licence.
The company also launched its rem... |
| 20.09.2024 | L'ATTITUDE Ventures Announces Mavida Health as L'ATTITUDE Latino Startup of the Year; 10 Latino/a-led companies vied for the title during the Match-Up™ 2024 program | CNBC's Contessa Brewer, left, Mavida Health Co-Founder Dr. Sarah Oreck, Laura Moreno Lucas and Pete Amaro, both of L'ATTITUDE Ventures honor Mavida Health as "L'ATTITUDE Latino Startup of the Year."
L'ATTITUDE Ventures, the larges... |
| 16.09.2024 | Chpter, a social commerce startup in Kenya, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed capital | Chpter, a Kenyan startup that has developed an AI-powered conversational commerce platform that allows businesses to sell more on social networks such as WhatsApp and Instagram, received US$1.2 million in pre-seed capital to continue develo... |
| 02.09.2024 | Kenyan e-commerce startup Chpter raises $1.2 million in pre-seed round | Chpter was accepted into two accelerator programs before closing this pre-seed deal.
Chpter, a Kenyan e-commerce startup launched by co-founders of YC-backed Marketforce, has raised $1.2 million in a pre-seed round and will use the new fund... |
| 15.07.2024 | Weekly economic index: Nigeria’s inflation hits new high, South Africa to regulate its financial influencers, and reduced stake for NNPC in Dangote refinery. | Here are three big stories from Africa’s business and policy landscape you (probably) didn’t miss but should keep in mind this week: Nigeria’s inflation hits new high in June
Nigeria’s battle with inflation continues, with the latest data r... |
| 13.07.2024 | NALA's $40 Million Funding Boost to Transform Payments in Africa and Beyond | NALA, a pioneering UK fintech company, has recently secured a substantial $40 million in Series A funding to propel its global expansion efforts and revolutionize the reliability of payments in Africa. This significant funding injection mar... |
| 09.07.2024 | Nala Raises $40M in Series A Funding | Nala, a London, UK-based fintech company which specializes in payment services, raised $40M in funding.
The round was led by Lauren Kolodny of Acrew Capital, with participation from DST Global, Amplo, Norrsken22, HOF Capital, Ryan King, and... |
| 09.07.2024 | NALA raises $40M to improve payments in Africa and beyond | UK fintech company NALA has raised $40 million in Series A funding to support its global expansion and enhance the reliability of payments to Africa by developing its payment rails. This is NALA’s second round of fundraising in 20 months, h... |
| 06.06.2024 | Money20/20 Europe Unveils Six Incredible Fintech Startups And Industry Disruptors | AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Media OutReach Newswire – 6 June 2024 – Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, has unveiled six startups that are poised to transform the world of money. The selected s... |
| 19.03.2024 | Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too | Payments company Nala pivoted to offer remittance service in 2021, tapping the growing money transfer market in Africa, and demand for reliable and affordable services. Nala founder Benjamin Fernandes said they intended to build their produ... |
| 13.12.2022 | NALA expands into Europe to enable cross border payments
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Success! | NALA, a Tanzanian fintech company, has expanded its services into the European market. This expansion will allow the fintech to operate in 19 European countries and enable remittances from them to African countries.
Despite the internationa... |
| 26.10.2022 | NALA enables Google Pay payments from the US and UK into Africa | 0
NALA, a Tanzanian fintech startup facilitating remittances from the African diaspora in the UK and US, has integrated Google Pay into its suite of payment options for users. With this announcement, NALA, currently on a three-week streak o... |
| 27.01.2022 | Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa | NALA, a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round.
The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA se... |
| - | Revolutionary NALA app enables internet-free money transfer in East Africa | Tanzania’s 28-year-old Benjamin Fernandes is the co-founder of NALA, Africa’s first mobile money application that allows you to make transactions without an internet connection.
At its core, NALA’s mission is about financial inclusion and s... |
