Social Media Roundup: Outrage as Bia says she doesn’t know Wizkid, Davido and Burna Boy
It’s the end of another interesting week and besides fundraisers here and there, a couple of interesting things…
Smile Identity raises $7 million to scale its solution which helps Africans prove their identity online
Smile Identity has raised a sum of $7 million to scale its product that helps Africans prove their…
Nigeria’s Lemonade Finance, Mecho Autotech and Suplias selected for Y Combinator’s S21 Batch
Startups from all over the world are being selected to join the Y Combinator Summer 2021 (S21) cohort.…
Data Science Nigeria launches first AI incubation lab, pivots From Non-profit to social company
A few kilometres from CcHub within Yaba, the Lagos city’s “silicon valley”, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Iyin Aboyeji, Ade Bajomo…
YCombinator launches Tinder-like platform that matches startup founders with desired co-founders
On Tuesday, seed funding startup accelerator, Y Combinator (YC) announced the launch of its Co-founder Matching Platform. It…
PickMeUp is set to take on Bolt and Uber in Lagos with new funds and strategies
Three years after Uber launched in Nigeria and a year after Bolt entered the ride-hailing space, a local…
China orders removal of ride-hailing app, Didi from playstores as onslaught against tech companies continues
In what is an escalation of the regulatory crackdown on tech companies by China, regulators have ordered app-store…
Nigeria’s Helpmum among 30 startups selected for Google Social Impact Funding
Nigeria’s HelpMum is one of two Nigeria-focused enterprises selected by Google for its AI-based social for good startup…
Nnamdi Kanu, TB Joshua, June 12 and other most-searched topics online in June
Hey there! Happy new month. June has to be one of the most eventful months in 2021. There…
Nkem Okocha’s SheSabi app is helping women learn vocational skills and earn a living
The World Bank estimates that Nigeria’s Adult Literacy Rate is 62.2%. For most people who could not attain…