| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.10.2023 | TLcom announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2023 | TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has officially announced its fifth annual Africa Tech Female Founder Summit, which will be held on Tuesday 14th November 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. The headline session will feature a fir... |
| 18.06.2020 | Lori Systems, Twiga Foods included on WEF’s 100 New Technology Pioneers list | Kenyan tech startups Lori Systems and Twiga Foods have been included on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2020 Technology Pioneers list which includes 100 tech firms from around the world.
WEF unveiled the list in a statement on Tuesday (1... |
| 18.06.2020 | Lori Systems, Twiga Foods included on WEF’s 100 New Technology Pioneers list | Kenyan tech startups Lori Systems and Twiga Foods have been included on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2020 Technology Pioneers list which includes 100 tech firms from around the world.
WEF unveiled the list in a statement on Tuesday (16... |
| 27.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [27/04/2020] | SA’s Trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel says the government can’t lift restrictions to allow all ecommerce traders to operate, while not doing so for bricks-and-mortar stores, as doing so would be seen to be “unfair competition” and ... |
| 27.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [27/04/2020] | SA’s Trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel says the government can’t lift restrictions to allow all ecommerce traders to operate, while not doing so for bricks-and-mortar stores, as doing so would be seen to be “unfair competition” and ... |
| 13.02.2020 | Data: Africa’s “new blood”, rather than the “new oil” | Share this:
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| 21.01.2020 | UK’s CDC Group commits $15m to TLcom’s Tide Africa Fund | UK development finance institution and impact investor CDC Group has committed $15-million to TLcom’s Tide Africa fund to support early-stage high-growth startups across sub-Saharan Africa.
The CDC Group said in a statement yesterday that t... |
| 21.01.2020 | UK’s CDC Group commits $15m to TLcom’s Tide Africa Fund | UK development finance institution and impact investor CDC Group has committed $15-million to TLcom’s Tide Africa fund to support early-stage high-growth startups across sub-Saharan Africa.
The CDC Group said in a statement yesterday that ... |
| 03.01.2020 | African Startups that Received Funding above $20Million in 2019 | Capital is the power nerve and brain box of every venture. It determines the lifespan of the venture and helps the business scale its market power to compete favorably with other startups in the market. In this piece, we take a cursory look... |
| 31.12.2019 | 10 reasons why 2019 was a hot year for Africa’s tech startup scene [Opinion] | Africa’s tech startup scene is doing quite okay. Actually, it’s pretty hot right now.
Even the attack in January by terrorists on a Nairobi office park, in which 21 people died (including six members of Kenyan tech firm Cellulant), can’t k... |
| 31.12.2019 | 10 reasons why 2019 was a hot year for Africa’s tech startup scene [Opinion] | Africa’s tech startup scene is doing quite okay. Actually, it’s pretty hot right now.
Even the attack in January by terrorists on a Nairobi office park, in which 21 people died (including six members of Kenyan tech firm Cellulant), can’t ke... |
| 03.11.2019 | Africa Roundup: Goldman leads $30M Twiga raise, China grows tech influence, Jumia weathers lockup-expiry | Kenya’s Twiga Foods raised a total of $30 million in October from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs.
This adds to the list of African startups the U.S. financial firm has backed, including e-commerce venture Jumia and South African... |
| 28.10.2019 | Twiga Foods Secures $30M to expand B2B food platform across Africa | Share this:
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| 28.10.2019 | Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman | Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs.
The B2B food distribution company financed $6.25 million of the funding in debt and $23.75 million in equity, classified as a Series B ro... |
| 12.09.2019 | An insight into how venture capital firm, TLcom invests | Share this article:
TLcom Capital is a Lagos-Nairobi-London-based venture capital firm that has been investing in tech and innovation across Europe and the US since 1999.
In 2017, TLcom Capital announced the first close of its Technology an... |
| 29.04.2019 | Curbing Losses in the Food Value Chain in Africa | Despite infrastructure hurdles, companies in Africa are taking the innovation route to reduce losses in the food value chain. Cold chain facilities play a prominent role in these efforts.
An estimated 1 in every 4 people in sub-Saharan Afri... |
| 17.12.2018 | Are these the 10 biggest disclosed African tech startup deals of 2018? [Updated] | A whole lot of money. That’s what over 60 African tech startups raised this year.
While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made quite a packet — over $178-million going on data from 48 venture capital... |
| 17.12.2018 | Are these the 10 biggest disclosed African tech startup deals of 2018? [Updated] | A whole lot of money. That’s what over 60 African tech startups raised this year.
While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made quite a packet — over $178-million going on data from 48 venture capital ... |
| 09.12.2018 | Africa Roundup: Terragon’s Asia acquisition, Twiga Foods’ $10M raise, SimbaPay’s China payment service | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
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| 21.11.2018 | Twiga Foods Raises $10M in Funding | Twiga Foods, a Kenya-based start-up connecting smallholder farmers in rural areas to informal retail vendors in cities, raised $10m in funding.
The round was led by IFC and TLcom with participation from existing investors Wamda Capital, DOB... |
| 16.11.2018 | Top startup news stories you need to know this Friday, November 16 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Friday, November 16.
Blablacar raises $113 million (€101 million) Series D extension, to acquire Ouibus. French popular carpooling platform BlaBlaCar has sec... |
| 15.11.2018 | Africa’s agtech wave gets $10 million richer as Twiga Foods raises more capital | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| - | Kenyan agri-tech startup Twiga Foods raises $10m from IFC, TLcom | - |
| - | Africa’s Top 10 tech startups of the moment – bizcommunity.com | |
| - | African Startups that Received Funding above $20Million in 2019 | Capital is the power nerve and brain box of every venture. It determines the lifespan of the venture and helps the business scale its market power to compete favorably with other startups in the market. In this piece, we take a cursory look... |
