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@Mo_Mijindadi has announced the launch of Africa Infrastructure Solutions Ltd (AISL), where he will serve as Founder and Chief Executive Officer after ending a 20-year career with GE Vernova/GE.

Mijindadi said AISL aims to address Africa’s infrastructure gap by helping governments, developers, investors and infrastructure companies turn ambitious ideas into bankable, financeable and executable projects.

Drawing on over two decades of experience working with governments, investors, development finance institutions and contractors, he said the company will focus on delivering infrastructure projects aligned with international standards and African market realities.

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Egyptian fintech company, Zeal has raised $10 million in a new funding round as it sets to expand its payment-linked loyalty and merchant intelligence technology across more than four million card-payment terminals globally.

The latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $14 million and is expected to support a major 24-month rollout of its technology through payment acquirers and other financial infrastructure partners.

Zeal, founded in 2019 by Omar Ebeid and Belal Mohamed, develops software that connects existing payment terminals with customer loyalty and business intelligence tools, allowing physical retailers to turn ordinary transactions into useful customer relationships and data.

The company did not disclose the investors participating in the latest round.

“A card payment should be the start of a more useful customer relationship,” said Ebeid, Zeal’s co-founder and CEO.

Yakub Abdulrasheed of Techparley Africa reports how Egypt's fintech startup, Zeal wants to transform over 4 million payment terminals globally with its newly raised $10 million.

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@Mastercard has partnered with Pan-African digital asset exchange, @getBusha , to expand its Crypto Credential solution across Africa, beginning with eligible users in Nigeria. This move aims to make cryptocurrency transfers simpler, safer and more trustworthy.

Under the partnership, eligible Busha users can now access a unique Crypto Credential alias that allows them to send and receive digital assets across participating exchanges and wallets without relying solely on lengthy blockchain wallet addresses.

The solution also verifies whether a recipient can receive a particular digital asset on the intended blockchain before a transaction is completed, potentially reducing costly errors and misdirected transfers.

“Digital asset transfers should be as intuitive and trusted as other forms of digital payments,” Mastercard’s Africa division president Gabriel Swanepoel said.

He further described the partnership as part of efforts to advance secure digital-asset infrastructure across Africa.

The Mastercard Crypto Credential system is designed to address one of the practical challenges associated with cryptocurrency transfers, the difficulty of dealing with long and complex blockchain wallet addresses.

Techparley Africa's correspondent, Yakub Abdulrasheed highlights Mastercard and Busha's partnership aims to make crypto transfers simpler and safer for Nigerian users.

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UAE-based artificial intelligence startup, Keep Converting has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round as it seeks to help e-commerce businesses turn more website visitors into paying customers through personalised shopping experiences.

The round was led by Nuwa Capital and COTU Ventures and coincides with the company’s emergence from stealth.

Founded in 2025 by Mohammad El Mougi and Manuel Prinz, Keep Converting has developed an AI-powered conversion optimisation platform that creates personalised product-page experiences for individual shoppers based on factors such as where they came from and what they are looking for.

The company said its technology has delivered an average 64% conversion-rate lift across active client deployments in the United States, Europe and the Gulf.

“Keep Converting transforms every product page into the form that speaks to each shopper,” El Mougi said.

Keep Converting is designed to address one of the biggest challenges facing online retailers: getting visitors who arrive at their websites to actually complete a purchase. Rather than presenting every shopper with the same product page, the platform uses AI to create different experiences based on each visitor’s journey and potential interests.

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Nigerian healthtech startup, Mariam Grey is expanding access to medicines and healthcare services by combining artificial intelligence, remote pharmacy consultations and USSD technology to reach patients beyond conventional urban digital-health markets.

Founded in 2018, the startup has developed an AI assistant, Mummy Grey, which provides initial guidance on over-the-counter medicines, screens uploaded prescriptions and connects patients with pharmacists and doctors when professional intervention is required.

The company also works with hundreds of partner pharmacies across multiple Nigerian states, allowing patients to access medicines without necessarily visiting a physical pharmacy.

According to founder and licensed pharmacist Jennifer Esiaba, the platform was designed to address gaps in Nigeria’s healthcare system, particularly among underserved communities.

“For patients without smartphones or reliable internet, we also built a USSD channel,” said Esiaba.

She stressed further that digital healthcare should not be limited to people with modern devices or constant internet access.

Techparley Africa's correspondent, Yakub Abdulrasheed highlights how Nigeria's healthtech startup, Mariam Grey is deploying artificial intelligence and ussd to expand medicine access across the country.

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Kenyan AI-powered commerce startup Flowcart has partnered with global payments technology company Mastercard to simplify how consumers discover products, place orders and make payments through social and conversational platforms.

The strategic collaboration is designed to allow businesses to integrate secure digital payments directly into chat-based shopping experiences, reducing the need for customers to leave messaging platforms and visit separate websites or applications before completing purchases.

Initially launching in Kenya, the initiative is expected to expand across East Africa and other high-growth African markets, including Nigeria, South Africa and Ivory Coast.

Flowcart, which operates as an AI-powered conversational commerce and customer relationship management platform built around WhatsApp, said the partnership would help businesses turn conversations into complete shopping journeys.

“Together, we are enabling a future where commerce and payments happen seamlessly within conversations,” founder Ananth Gudipati said.

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Saudi Arabia-based artificial intelligence startup, Velents has expanded its operations into Bahrain through a strategic partnership with stc Bahrain.

This marks the latest step in the company’s efforts to scale its enterprise AI solutions across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The agreement, signed on the sidelines of LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, will see both companies introduce an exclusive suite of agentic AI product bundles for enterprise customers in Bahrain.

Through the partnership, Velents’ autonomous digital agent technology will be integrated into stc Bahrain’s business-to-business offering, giving local organisations access to AI tools capable of automating workflows, reducing manual processes and supporting decision-making.

“Every telecom in the region is talking about becoming a techco. stc Bahrain just did it,” Velents Founder and CEO Mohamed Gaber said.

Founded by Mohamed Gaber, Velents develops what is known as agentic artificial intelligence, a form of AI designed to go beyond simply responding to questions or generating content by carrying out tasks and workflows with a greater degree of autonomy.

Yakub Abdulrasheed of Techparley Africa reports on Saudi Arabia's artificial intelligence startup, https://t.co/W4puWnDUJU entry into Bahrain with stc partnership to bring autonomous AI to businesses.

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Finding a marketing agency may take minutes, but choosing the right one can take weeks, consume valuable resources and potentially derail a company’s growth plans.

That is the problem Indian startup, Curato is attempting to solve with an AI-powered procurement and matchmaking platform designed to help businesses identify suitable marketing partners based on verified capabilities and outcomes.

Founded by brand and marketing professional Sarath Chandran, Curato emerged from Chandran’s experience managing agencies and execution partners across India, the United States, Europe and Africa.

“Finding a marketing agency takes minutes. Choosing the right one takes weeks,” he said, arguing that “one wrong hire doesn’t just waste your marketing budget. It delays your roadmap and costs months of momentum.”

The startup says it has built a curated network of more than 300 verified agency partners.

Curato is designed to simplify the process of finding, evaluating and hiring marketing agencies by replacing open-ended searches and referral-driven decisions with curated recommendations.

Read full report on Sarath Chandran's newly launched Curato, an AI-powered platform to minimize risks associated with hiring marketing agencies.

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Moroccan e-health startup, One Med Link is building an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to help healthcare professionals streamline clinical workflows, connect fragmented health information systems and transform medical records into structured, reusable data.

Founded by Deyaa Wahbi and Soukaina Benabid, the startup is positioning itself not as a replacement for hospitals’ existing information systems, but as an intelligent layer that works alongside them.

With more than 200 healthcare professionals and nearly 50 research users already using its platform, One Med Link is now preparing for a major institutional deployment at the emergency department of a new hospital in Rabat while getting ready for its first fundraising round.

“Our objective is not to replace existing hospital information systems or electronic medical records,” Deyaa said, explaining that the company wants to make clinical workflows “faster, more structured and more efficient.”

Yakub Abdulrasheed of Techparley Africa highlights how Moroccan healthtech startup, One Med Link is targeting Africa with digital infrastructure for smarter healthcare.

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Kenyan electric mobility startup ARC Ride has secured $33.3 million in a fresh financing round as it moves to accelerate the deployment of battery-swapping infrastructure and expand affordable electric transportation across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The latest financing brings together venture capital firms, development finance institutions and impact investors, strengthening the company’s capacity to scale its Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) model beyond Kenya.

ARC Ride enables commercial two- and three-wheeler riders to use electric motorcycles and replace depleted batteries with fully charged units within minutes, reducing the need for conventional fuel and lengthy charging periods.

The company’s founder, Jo Hurst Croft, said the funding would help advance its ambition of making electric mobility more accessible, affordable and practical, describing the investment as an opportunity to build “a robust, scalable energy and mobility network across Africa.”

ARC Ride is a Kenyan electric mobility company focused primarily on two- and three-wheelers used for commercial transportation.

Rather than relying solely on conventional vehicle sales, the company operates a Battery-as-a-Service model designed to address some of the major barriers preventing riders from adopting electric motorcycles.

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Nigerian shared mobility startup @Shuttlersng has launched Shuttlers Pod, a new scheduled car service designed to make commuting across Lagos more convenient, comfortable and affordable.

The service combines the company’s experience in scheduled shared transportation with door-to-door car rides, allowing commuters to book trips in advance rather than relying entirely on conventional on-demand ride-hailing services.

Shuttlers Pod can accommodate three to four passengers travelling along similar routes, with each commuter picked up at their doorstep and dropped at their exact destination.

Customers can also reserve an entire vehicle for private trips. According to the company, each journey costs roughly 50 per cent less than typical ride-hailing fares because of advance booking and fixed pricing.

“The smartest way to move people is through shared mobility,” CEO Damilola Olokesusi said.

Founded in 2016, Shuttlers has built its business around using technology to improve how professionals and other commuters move around African cities.

Techparley Africa's correspondent, Yakub Abdulrasheed highlights how Nigeria's mobility startup, Shuttlers is offering cheaper alternative commuting services to Nigerian with its newly launched door-to-door Pod service.

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Nigerian payments fintech, @nombahq has secured a US$3 million debt facility from CardinalStone Finance Company Limited. This is significant to expand its cross-border payments business and increase its monthly transaction volume from more than US$480 million to over US$1 billion.

The fresh financing will provide the company with additional US dollar liquidity to strengthen its near-instant international payment infrastructure, beginning with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), before expanding into Zambia and Uganda.

Nomba’s co-founder and chief executive, Yinka Adewale, said the funding would provide the company with “more room to move, more liquidity, more corridors, faster settlement” as African businesses increasingly trade with global markets.

The development marks another significant step in Nomba’s evolution from a local payments provider into a broader African cross-border financial infrastructure company.

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Ugandan short-form video platform Wano has surpassed 50,000 app installations as it seeks to establish a new digital space for creators, communities and cultural stories across Africa and the global African diaspora.

Founded in 2025 by filmmaker Eilmer Bahri, the platform allows users to watch, create and share videos, but its ambition extends beyond simply becoming another competitor to TikTok, YouTube or Instagram.

Bahri said Wano is responding to what he considers a gap in how global platforms facilitate discovery of African content.

“There are millions of stories being created across Africa and the diaspora every day,” he said, arguing that existing systems were not necessarily designed around the “cultures, languages, communities or economic realities” from which those stories emerge.

Wano therefore wants African stories to travel without creators having to reshape their identities to satisfy global algorithms.

Wano was founded in Uganda in 2025 by Eilmer Bahri, a filmmaker who says his professional experience helped shape the idea behind the platform.

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GCC-based fitness technology company, Enhance has raised US$18.2 million in combined equity and debt financing as it accelerates expansion into the United States, the world’s largest gym market.

The funding involves Global Ventures, which participated through equity financing, and Stride Ventures, which provided venture debt.

Founded in Dubai in 2018 by Tarek Mounir, Enhance has evolved from a personal training services business into a software company serving major gym operators across multiple markets.

The company said the new capital will primarily support US growth, where its enterprise software has been licensed since January 2025 and is already deployed across more than 700 clubs.

Mounir said Enhance is “becoming the global operating system for Personal Training” as it targets international growth.

Enhance began in Dubai in 2018 as a personal training services business before transforming into a software-as-a-service platform focused on helping multi-site gym operators manage and scale personal training operations.

Yakub Abdulrasheed of Techparley Africa reports how the Dubai-based fitness startup, Enhance aims to accelerate its US expansion with newly secured $18.2 million funding.

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Nigerian technology startup ChipMango has raised US$1.9 million in seed funding as it moves to expand its chip-design operations and strengthen access to semiconductor skills across Africa, Europe and the United States.

The funding round, led by Atlantica Ventures alongside DFS Labs, Madica, Kaleo Ventures, Trilinear Technologies and Malta Ventures, will support the company’s engineering and product teams as it scales its operations internationally.

Founded in 2022 by Ola Fadiran and Jovan Andjelich, ChipMango is positioning itself at the intersection of engineering education, semiconductor technology and the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Its founder, Fadiran, said, “The next era of AI will not be defined by software alone,” stressing that future technological advancement will increasingly depend on the people capable of designing “the chips, systems and intelligent hardware” powering AI.

ChipMango is a Nigerian startup focused on developing the skills and capabilities needed to participate in the global semiconductor and chip-design industry.

Techparley Africa's correspondent, Yakub Abdulrasheed reports how Nigerian technology startup, ChipMango wants to expand its chip-design and AI hardware across Africa, Europe and United States with freshly raised $1.9 million funding.

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Today feels like a milestone worth noting. For too long, the narrative around Africa has been reductive, shrinking a continent of 54 countries, 1.4 billion people, and unmatched complexity into a single story. That framing sells Africans short on the global stage.

With this win, we’ve pushed back against that lazy stereotype. The next task for textbooks, maps, and media is simple: update them to reflect reality.

But the larger battle starts now. It’s not enough for Africa to be seen as big. The world, and we ourselves, must see Africa as capable: capable of solving its own infrastructure, energy, health, and digital challenges. Shall we get to work?

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Egyptian ed-tech startup, 3C Coding School has raised US$3 million in seed funding as it prepares to expand into Saudi Arabia and accelerate development of an artificial intelligence-powered learning platform.

The investment marks a growth milestone for the company, which has built a technology education ecosystem for children.

Founded in 2015, 3C now serves more than 120,000 students through programmes covering coding, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, game development, and web and mobile applications.

Its founders say the platform is designed to develop thinking skills rather than simply teach programming syntax.

“Coding isn’t just for future software engineers,” co-founder Hosam Hosny said, calling it “a fundamental medium for teaching kids how to think, innovate, and solve complex problems.”

Founded in Egypt in 2015 by engineers Hosam Hosny and Ahmed Khallaf, 3C Coding School was created to change how computer science is taught to young learners.

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Saudi Arabia-based logistics technology startup, Sirdab has raised $10 million (SAR 37.5 million) in Series A funding to accelerate its expansion across Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.

The funding round was co-led by Elm, a Public Investment Fund (PIF)-backed digital solutions company, and existing investor BECO Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, COTU Ventures and D Global Ventures.

Founded in 2022, Sirdab is building a technology-driven logistics infrastructure that enables businesses to access and manage warehousing, transportation, inventory and orders through a single platform.

Commenting on the development, Sirdab co-founder and CEO Naif Alzahri said, “Sirdab gives them the infrastructure to grow on,” adding that the company makes “quality capacity accessible in days” while keeping logistics operations visible and service standards consistent.

Founded in 2022 by Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah, Sirdab is a logistics technology company designed to simplify the way businesses access and manage physical supply-chain infrastructure.

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Kuwait-founded technology company, COFE Tech has secured a $178 million valuation following the closure of a new pre-IPO funding round, marking another major milestone in its transformation from a consumer coffee marketplace into an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise technology company.

The investment round was co-led by Wa’ed Ventures, Aditum Investment Management, Masarrah Investment Company and Alyasra Foods, although the amount invested was not disclosed.

Founded in 2018 by Ali Al-Ebrahim, COFE now provides procurement and commerce infrastructure to more than 1,000 businesses across the Gulf.

The company said the latest backing would support its expansion across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and preparations for a targeted listing on the Saudi Exchange by 2029.

“COFE Tech brings those operations into a single intelligent platform,” Al-Ebrahim said.

Yakub Abdulrasheed of Techparley Africa highlights how COFE Tech, an Egyptian Coffee app is evolving into AI enterprise powerhouse across middle east and north Africa.

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Angolan startup KambaWork has launched a digital employment and opportunities platform designed to help young people access jobs, internships, scholarships, courses, volunteering opportunities and micro-work from one place.

Launched this year, the platform seeks to address the difficulty many young Angolans face when searching for credible and relevant opportunities scattered across different online and informal channels.

According to Tárcio Costa, founder and CEO of KambaWork, “The problem is not only a lack of jobs. Opportunities are often fragmented across Facebook pages, WhatsApp groups, company websites and informal networks.”

He said this fragmentation makes it difficult for young people to determine what opportunities are genuine, current or relevant, while also making recruitment less organised for employers.

KambaWork is therefore positioning itself as a central digital bridge between opportunity seekers and organisations.

KambaWork is an Angolan startup building a digital platform that brings several categories of employment, education and development opportunities together in one environment.

Techparley Africa's correspondent, Yakub Abdulrasheed highlights how KambaWork, an Angola's startup, is creating jobs, internship, scholarships amongst others through its recently launched one-stop digital platform.

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