Kudi, PAL, Rapido, Opay, Techstar, Umba, Spoilz Games, Simpu, and Kippa. These are some of the names that made the headlines this week, IgbereTV reports
Simpu, a Nigerian customer engagement startup, raised a $1 million pre-seed funding round to help brands deliver better customer engagement experiences.
Also, instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, during the week, launched a new feature designed to help users to join private communities.
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What do you do when your startup is battling an identity challenge where your leads take another company as yours? You rebrand, and make some noise around it!
Nigerian financial technology company, Kudi, during the week, rebranded its business name to Nomba.
The company claims that the rebranding was necessary as it seeks to transit into an omni-channel payment platform providing tools to enable businesses grow.
Ripples Nigeria, however, learnt that the rebranding was informed by its closeness in identity to Nigerian digital bank, Kuda, leading to inherent confusion amongst users. Cool?
Africa continues on its financial inclusion mission. Tech correspondent, Ridwan Adelaja, makes case for a Ghanaian startup contributing its quota to see this through.
A Ghanaian fintech startup, PAL, during the week, launched a payment service infrastructure it developed to help financial institutions solve industry-related challenges.
According to PAL, the new service infrastructure is expected to drive financial inclusion in African countries without proper payment infrastructure.
Founded in January 2020 by Dady Maël and Kader Saka, the startup helps Financial institutions, Banks, global brands and remittance businesses disburse money to different mobile network wallets in multiple currencies across Africa. Amazing?
Heavy raisers have become a commonplace feature in some countries outside Africa. They are so intimidating that some raisers closed by African startups are declared undisclosed.
