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Cleva, a Nigerian fintech startup, successfully secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding in early 2024 to enhance international payments infrastructure across Africa.
As reported by BitKE back then, the startup had facilitated payments exceeding $1 million monthly for thousands of users within the

TLcom Capital successfully closed its Tide Africa II early-stage fund with $154 million, enhancing its position as Africa's largest Seed and Series A investor. The fund aims to support innovative solutions addressing critical challenges in the continent's sectors, with initial investments planned for South Africa and Egypt.

MTN's Ayoba app has achieved 20 million monthly active users in December 2022, doubling its user base from the previous year. The app offers messaging, voice and video calls, and over 100 content channels, emphasizing local content. Ayoba aims for 100 million users by 2025.

Nigerian fintech, BFREE, has raised $2.95 million, in a round led by Capria Ventures, as it looks to scale across its markets across the continent.
BFREE is defined as a tech-enabled debt collection startup established to automate and introduce ethical debt recovery procedures. The founders were

Bitsgap has evolved since 2017 into a leading trading platform with over 600,000 users across 15 exchanges, facilitating billions in trading volume and generating over $400 million in user profits, catering to all trader levels.

In July 2024, AgriDex, a marketplace for real-world assets (RWAs) made history when it settled its first agricultural trade on the Solana blockchain.
The platform, which aims to bring the global agricultural market on-chain by tokenizing various crops, enabled the shipment of over two hundred

Opera is introducing experimental support for 150 local LLM variants in its Opera One browser, allowing users to manage AI models locally for enhanced privacy and functionality. Users can choose and download models, minimizing data server interaction.

Yeshara Tokens Limited has been admitted to CMA Kenya's Regulatory Sandbox for a year to test its blockchain real estate tokenization platform. It must comply with various requirements, including regulatory plans and risk management protocols.

South African banking giant, NedBank, plans to launch a novel use of smart contracts in the agriculture sector within the next 6-12 months, according to Cobus de Bruyn, Head of Client Value Propositions for Agriculture at NedBank Commercial Banking.

According to De Bruyn, smart contract

WorldCoin is an open-source system aimed at granting global economic access through decentralized tools like World ID and the Orb. Backed by organizations such as the WorldCoin Foundation and Tools for Humanity, it emphasizes user participation and humanness verification in a digital economy.

Blockradar achieved over $305 million in transaction volume in 2025, marking a pivotal shift in stablecoin payments for emerging markets. It successfully expanded globally, launched a key partnership with Circle, and gained recognition for its innovative infrastructure.

The Bank of South Sudan, in collaboration with the AfricaNenda Foundation, is launching a National Instant Payment System (NIPS) to enhance real-time financial transactions and improve access to services, aiming for greater financial inclusivity.

Coinbase has partnered with JPMorgan to enhance USDC stablecoin settlements. This collaboration enables transfers of Chase rewards to USDC, credit card funding for Coinbase accounts, and direct bank integration, signaling a push for broader crypto adoption.

Yodawy, an Egyptian health-tech platform, raised $7.5 million in Series B funding to enhance its services and expand into emerging markets. The venture connects users with pharmacies and insurers, streamlining medication access for over 2 million users.