Foodpreneurs Hub, a foodtech platform founded in Nigeria, has recently secured $500,000 in pre-seed funding as part of its ongoing mission to tackle food insecurity across Africa.
Global accounting software leader Xero has announced its acquisition of Syft, a South African cloud-based reporting and analytics platform, for $70 million. The deal, expected to close between October and December 2024 pending regulatory approval, will enhance Xero's financial reporting and analytics capabilities, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. Syft, founded in 2016 by Matt…
Chinasa T. Okolo, a Nigerian-American computer scientist and Brookings Institution fellow, has earned a spot on TIME’s prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in Artificial Intelligence (AI).