Digest Africa

15/07/2021

Yamzit announces a platform for cost-reduction and business management while keeping customers satisfied:

Yamzit a software company, offers a business management tool that combines a loyalty program, POS, appointments and payments into one software package

12/07/2021

Thank you Daily Monitor for featuring our report. Read the full article here:

This is authored in a 2020 Index report by Digest Africa and Crunch Base, two research firms that track the performance of venture capital funding across Africa

21/06/2021

Digest Africa YTD Venture Capital Index as at 21/06/2021:
Total Deal Count: 316 deals (+58% vs 2020)
Total Deal Value: $903.6M (+145% vs 2020)
Largest Deal YTD: Flutterwave, $170M ( FinTech).

17/06/2021

Digest Africa YTD Venture Capital Index as at 17/06/2021:
Total Deal Count: 314 deals (+57% vs 2020)
Total Deal Value: $870.1M (+136% vs 2020)
Largest Deal YTD: Flutterwave, $170M ( FinTech).

16/06/2021

Less than $200M short of the $1 billion mark, African startups are well on their way to meeting this target by the close of H1. Here's an update on Africa's startup funding:

May recorded yet another positive increment in funding with a total of $208.5M across 65 rounds, $130.5M more than April 2021 and $69.5M more than May 2019.

10/06/2021

Digest Africa YTD Venture Capital Index as at 10/06/2021:
Total Deal Count: 308 deals (+60% vs 2020)
Total Deal Value: $861.4M (+145.6% vs 2020)
Largest Deal YTD: Flutterwave, $170M ( FinTech).

27/05/2021

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18/05/2021

Digest Africa Venture Capital Index,17/05/2021:
Total Deal Count: 236 deals (+58% vs 2020)
Total Deal Value: $649.1M (+119% vs 2020)
Largest Deal YTD: Flutterwave , $170M ( FinTech).

15/04/2021

Digest Africa YTD Venture Capital Index as at 15/04/2021:
Total Deal Count: 189 deals (+70% vs 2020)
Total Deal Value: $594M (+124% vs 2020)
Largest Deal YTD: Flutterwave, $170M ( FinTech).

26/03/2021

Part 3 of the Twekobe story:

I had collected what I thought was an All-Star team. Our failure to foresee how long a technology startup takes to mature in Uganda really proved fatal.

23/03/2021

Part 2 of the Twekobe story:

In August 2019, we were joined by Emmanuel Odelle. He had been working on a startup similar to Twekobe and he figured it would be better to join forces.

22/03/2021

Business man and inventor Thomas A. Edison once said every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy. Prop-tech founder Jonathan Ntege Lubwama shares his experience and lessons learned through the company’s 3 year journey https://digestafrica.com/twekobe-story-part-1