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Binance Labs invests in decentralized Rollups-as–a-Service (RaaS) provider AltLayer
Published: 10-08-2023 | 16:48:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Binance Labs has announced a strategic investment in AltLayer.


Decentralized identity startup Intuition raises $4m funding round
Published: 16-06-2023 | 13:56:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Decentralized infrastructure provider Intuition has raised $4 million in a seed round fundraise.


Teahouse Finance Raises $5 million to further defi wealth management
Published: 26-04-2023 | 18:12:00 | By: Bob Koigi
Teahouse Finance, a decentralized asset management and strategy platform provider, has announced a total raise of $5 million in funding, most recently with the close of a $2 million financing round led by AppWorks, one of the leading VC firms and accelerator in Southeast Asia.


Institutional on-chain finance startup Fractal raises $6m seed funding to accelerate growth
Published: 19-04-2023 | 14:59:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Fractal, an infrastructure provider enabling institutions to clear, settle, and margin digital asset trades on-chain, announced it has secured $6 million in financing led by Hack VC.


The evolution of cryptocurrencies - a look at how blockchain technology is going mainstream
Published: 19-04-2023 | 13:32:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Cryptocurrencies have been around for over a decade now and have come a long way since their inception.


How DeFi is disrupting traditional banking and financial services
Published: 08-03-2023 | 10:53:00 | By: Pie Kamau
The traditional banking and financial services industry has long been the cornerstone of the global economy. It has provided access to capital, enabled trade, and facilitated financial transactions for centuries.


Decentralized finance companies are shifting from centralization, Plug and Play
Published: 22-02-2023 | 14:25:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Decentralized finance, commonly referred to as DeFi, is an emerging technology aimed at building a new financial system that is open to everyone and does not depend on traditional financial intermediaries, such as banks, lenders, etc.


Swiss Web3 payment startup DePay partners with WooCommerce to bring payments to online merchants
Published: 22-11-2022 | 11:34:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Swiss Web3 payment startup DePay, announced it is joining forces with the self-hostable, open-source eCommerce plugin WooCommerce, pushing decentralization further and providing merchants with the ability to have customers send payments directly to their own wallets.


Global innovation platform Plug and Play to launch crypto and digital assets innovation platform
Published: 16-11-2022 | 10:02:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Global innovation platform Plug and Play, together with founding partners Visa, AllianceBlock, The INX Digital Company, IGT, and Franklin Templeton, has announced the launch of their new Crypto and Digital Assets program.


Fintech startup Fordefi raises $18m seed round to launch institutional DeFi wallet and security platform
Published: 09-11-2022 | 11:55:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Fordefi, a financial technology and software company, announced a $18 million seed round and the public launch of its institutional MPC wallet built for transacting on decentralized applications (dApps).


Cryptocurrency startup Zerion closes $12m Series B funding to build the best wallet for Web3 citizens
Published: 12-10-2022 | 14:38:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Zerion, the wallet for the most active web3 users, announced the closing of a $12.3 million Series B funding round led by Wintermute Ventures.


Unicorn Growth Capital, EchoVC join Celo Foundation to support Web3 projects across Africa
Published: 20-09-2022 | 15:23:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Unicorn Growth Capital and EchoVC have joined the Celo Foundation to support growth of Web3 projects across Africa through newly dedicated Celo ecosystem investment funds.


Swiss crypto startup 21.co raises $25m, becomes Switzerland's largest crypto Unicorn
Published: 07-09-2022 | 11:51:00 | By: Pie Kamau
21.co, the world's player in providing access to crypto through simple and easy to use products, announced a $25 million round led by Marshall Wace.


Cryptocurrency startup Coinfeeds raises $2m seed round, launches Web3 community monitoring app
Published: 28-07-2022 | 10:20:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Coinfeeds announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round led by FTX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Protocol Labs (IPFS / Filecoin), Huobi Ventures, and startup accelerator Y Combinator.


Fintech startup CoinFlip raises $1m initiative to support emerging Web 3.0 startups
Published: 27-07-2022 | 15:57:00 | By: Pie Kamau
CoinFlip, a fintech company powered by cryptocurrency, announced the launch of CoinFlip Ventures, a new initiative that will support Web 3.0 based startup companies.


British Virgin Islands-based SithSwap raises $2.65m to build next-gen AMM on StarkNet
Published: 27-06-2022 | 12:25:00 | By: Pie Kamau
SithSwap, the next-generation automated market maker (AMM) on StarkNet, has successfully raised $2.65 million at a $25 million valuation in a seed funding round led by Lemniscap.


DeFi for construction finance startup Rigor raises $3.5m to end housing's affordability crisis
Published: 16-06-2022 | 15:05:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Rigor, an innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for construction lending and payments, has secured $3.5m in institutional seed financing from an honor roll of venture funders.


Swiss Web3 payment startup DePay brings Web3 P2P payment gateway to eligible Shopify merchants
Published: 02-06-2022 | 15:57:19 | By: Pie Kamau
Swiss Web3 payment startup DePay, announced its official integration into omnichannel commerce platform Shopify, allowing for the very first integration of a wallet-to-wallet (P2P) payment solution for eligible Shopify merchants.


Dragonfly Capital closes oversubscribed $650m crypto venture Fund III
Published: 10-05-2022 | 10:09:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Dragonfly Capital, a global crypto-focused investment firm, announced the final closing of its third venture fund, Dragonfly Ventures III, L.P. (Fund III).


Huobi Incubator partners with Celo to promote Stablecoins for the masses
Published: 25-04-2022 | 12:50:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Huobi Incubator, the project incubation arm of Huobi Global, announced it will co-host Celo x Huobi: Stablecoin in Web3 & Sustainability hackathon with Celo.


Singapore-based Treehouse Finance raises $18m seed funding to establish a standard for DeFi analytics
Published: 17-03-2022 | 11:15:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Treehouse, a Web3 company transforming on-chain data into meaningful metrics to help decentralized finance (DeFi) investors make informed financial decisions, announced an $18 million seed round raise.


[Startup Interview] Terry Macharia, Founder, Secvate Solutions, Kenya
Published: 08-05-2020 | 13:09:35 | By: Bob Koigi
Terry Macharia is a founder and Managing Partner at Secvate Solutions, an information technology startup domiciled in Nairobi Kenya that has since 2018 been offering customized software solutions, cyber security consultancy and data analytics services to MSMEs.


[Startup Interview] Kat Mrozi Guerreiro, Founder, Xaka Consulting, Mozambique
Published: 29-04-2020 | 11:59:00 | By: Bob Koigi
Xaka Consulting is a Mozambique startup that offers a bouquet of human resource services among them leadership and management programmes, soft skills for all type of work-force, quality control, procurement and business intelligence.


[Startup Interview] Jose Dalappan, CEO, Costral Corporate Strategic Lab, India
Published: 27-04-2020 | 09:19:00 | By: Bob Koigi
Costral Corporate Strategic Lab is an India-based management consulting startup working with organizations in marketability of their product from market survey and other tools, branding and and business development. The company also assists businesses to re-vamp their business model.


[Startup Interview] Elton Greeve, CEO, EMG Agri Solutions, South Africa
Published: 27-04-2020 | 09:13:00 | By: Bob Koigi
EMG Agri Solutions, a South African startup offers business planning, management consulting, strategic management, and specialized project management for agri-businesses. The focus is on providing farmers and agri-businesses with specialist advisory solutions.


[Startup Interview] Gyaviira Tumushabe, Co-Founder, Firm Tours and Safaris, Uganda
Published: 27-04-2020 | 09:05:00 | By: Bob Koigi
Gyaviira Tumushabe is a co-founder of Firm Tours and Safaris, a tourism startup based in Uganda. It offers services include wildlife safaris, mountain gorilla tracking, city tours, organized group tours, school tours cultural and religious tours, all arranged and operated within the bounds of Uganda.


[Startup Interview] Martial Medi, Founder, SIP Management, UK
Published: 24-04-2020 | 14:50:00 | By: Bob Koigi
London-based SIP Management is a startup empowering creators, innovators and businesses from lower income communities that often fail to successfully monetize their Intellectual property due to the high costs involved and lack of supportive networks.


[Startup Interview] Tawanda Chitewe, CEO, iSeven Consultants, Zimbabwe
Published: 24-04-2020 | 12:05:00 | By: Bob Koigi
iSeven Consultants is a Zimbabwe based startup offering retail management consulting services. It has carved a niche in solving clients’ challenges in operations, procurement and inventory management, human resources and public relations. Tawanda Chitewe explains.


[Startup Interview] Josephine Pretorius, Founder, Consolidated Marketing Services, South Africa
Published: 24-04-2020 | 10:27:00 | By: Bob Koigi
Josephine Pretorius is the founder and CEO of Consolidated Marketing Services, CMS, a South African startup offering marketing and PR services to clients predominantly in the energy and power infrastructure sector.


[Startup Interview] Ancel Bwire, CEO, Ancywax, Uganda
Published: 24-04-2020 | 07:57:00 | By: Bob Koigi
Ancywax is a research, media and marketing startup domiciled in Uganda’s capital Kampala that has since 2014 been offering clients a cocktail of services from idea to implementation through a model dubbed Concept Development. Ancel Bwire the CEO elaborates about the startup’s business model and plans moving forward.


[Startup Interview] Cyrus Mulinge, CEO, Trots Technologies, Kenya
Published: 21-04-2020 | 13:15:00 | By: Pie Kamau
Cyrus Mulinge is the CEO of Trots Technologies, a Kenyan based mobile commerce platform that allows seamless and uninterrupted interaction between businesses and their audiences.