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Lipa Later Announces Partnership with Lami Technologies

Lipa Later Group, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) company today announced a partnership with Lami Technologies, an insurance technology company, that will offer its consumers access to reliable and affordable insurance against all products purchased using the Lipa Later platform. Founded in 2017, Lipa Later is a trusted BNPL company operating in Kenya, Rwanda,…

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Liquid Intelligent Technologies expands operations to Mkushi

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Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies in Zambia, is expanding its operations to Central Province by launching its first office in Mkushi. This launch will bring high-speed connectivity and a suite of intelligent technologies to the district for the first time. With the opening of this new branch in the country, the pan-African…

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Lami Technologies Raises US$3.7mn Seed Extension

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Kenya-based startup Lami Technologies has raised a US$ 3.7m seed extension to expand its insurtech product across Africa. The extension was led by Harlem Capital, an early-stage venture firm that invests in seed-stage tech-enabled startups, focused on minority and women founders. Participating in the round were early-stage venture capital firm, Newtown Partners; Peter Bruce-Clark, a…

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Shaping Tomorrow: How Bitcoin, Crypto, and Web3 are Transforming the Digital Landscape

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Shaping Tomorrow: How Bitcoin, Crypto, and Web3 are Transforming the Digital Landscape panel session at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025 featuring insights and views from Noelyne Sumba – Operations at Machankura, Yvonne Kagondu – Co-Founder at Kushite ICP East Africa Hub, Felix Macharia – Co-founder and CEO at Kotani Pay and moderated by Jo Eyre... Read Article →

The Digital Revolution: Enhancing Cross-Border Payments in Africa

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The Digital Revolution: Enhancing Cross-Border Payments in Africa - Panel at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025 featuring insights and views from Eric Wainaina - General Manager, Africa at Conduit, Yemi Lawani - Director of Business Development at Circle, Iheakachi Nwabueze - Head of Global Marketing and Growth at Grey, Dr. Collins Igwe - CFO at... Read Article →

Stablecoins in Africa: Stability & Innovation Powering Digital Payments

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Stablecoins in Africa: Stability & Innovation Powering Digital Payments - panel session at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025 featuring insights and views from Victoria Calmon - Head of Marketing and Communications at Mento Labs, Daniel Kimotho - Ecosystem and Strategic Partnerships at Celo Foundation, Sebastien Piolat - Business Development Director for Web3 at Opera and... Read Article →

Building Web3 Across The Continent

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Building Web3 Across The Continent - panel session at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025 with expert insights and views from Chris Duffus - CEO at Fonbnk, Stephen Browne - Co-Founder at Sorted Wallet, Mouloukou Sanoh - Co-Founder & CEO at Mansa Finance and moderated by Jessica Hope - CEO at Wimbart. Highlights from the session... Read Article →

AWS Opens Applications for the 2025 Generative AI Accelerator to Support Startups Building Foundational AI

Amazon Web Services Opens Applications for the 2025 Generative AI Accelerator to Support Startups Building Foundational AI

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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today opened applications for the third cohort of the AWS Generative AI Accelerator (GAIA), an eight-week global program designed to scale early-stage startups building foundational generative AI technologies. Forty promising startups from around the world will be selected for this year’s program, which kicks…

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Tether Invests in Shiga Digital to Strengthen Africa’s On-Chain Financial Ecosystem

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Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry, today announced a strategic investment in Shiga Digital, a modern platform that offers pan-African access to blockchain-based financial solutions, usable in the real world and easily accessible. Shiga Digital offers virtual accounts, OTC services, treasury management, and foreign exchange (FX) services tailored to African enterprises. This…

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TBD, part of Block, which is focused on creating open and decentralized technologies to connect the financial world, today announces that leading African fintech Chipper Cash has integrated with the tbDEX protocol to power cross border payments and decentralized identity use cases for individuals and businesses on the African continent. “Across Africa, the challenges of currency liquidity and access to global financial systems are palpable,” said Mike Brock, CEO of TBD. “For these reasons, we are laser focused on building out the tbDEX ecosystem in Africa, which already includes Yellowcard, the largest and only licensed stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent. Fast on the heels of our tbDEX SDK 1.0 release, adding Chipper Cash to our growing network will help to accelerate our work on global cross border payments and decentralized identity.” Chipper Cash extends the power of tbDEX across Africa As one of the largest fintechs in Africa, Chipper Cash already allows 5 million consumers to move money efficiently to over 21 African countries. And with over 1.2 million cards issued, Chipper’s integration represents the onboarding of one of the largest virtual card issuers in Africa. “At Chipper Cash, we're excited about the potential of tbDEX to revolutionize remittance flows into Africa,” said Maijid Moujaled, President and Co-Founder of Chipper Cash. “Remittances are a lifeline for many African families, but the costs of sending money to the continent remain among the highest globally. By plugging into an open protocol like tbDEX with numerous network participants, we believe we can, collectively as an industry, drive down these high costs and facilitate remittances in a more efficient, transparent, and compliant manner.” Accelerating the path to financial inclusion for small businesses While the initial collaboration will focus on enabling faster and less expensive consumer remittances, the two companies will also explore ways to empower small businesses. Chipper’s offerings for businesses already enable local and cross-border digital payments for underbanked SMEs across 40 different African countries, powering disbursements and collections from bank accounts, mobile money wallets and Chipper wallets. Leveraging verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers to enable trust Chipper Cash will also leverage tbDEX to unlock trusted, compliant transactions with verifiable credentials (VCs) and decentralized identifiers (DIDs) in order to accelerate the onboarding and identity verification of consumers and small businesses. “Chipper is also excited to collaborate with TBD on the trust frameworks and innovative credential designs that underpin every financial transaction on tbDEX,” Moujaled said. “The idea that we can have a standardized and streamlined way to verify our identity on the internet can help make the world feel a bit more inclusive.”

TBD Expands in Africa, Adding Chipper Cash to Growing tbDEX Ecosystem

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TBD, part of Block, which is focused on creating open and decentralized technologies to connect the financial world, today announces that leading African fintech Chipper Cash has integrated with the tbDEX protocol to power cross border payments and decentralized identity use cases for individuals and businesses on the African continent. “Across Africa, the challenges of…

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