Innovation Village Newsletter

💼 Dangote, Mittal Join World Bank’s Private Sector Investment Lab

Plus: 🥽 What Happened to the Metaverse?

🪙 Flutterwave, Yellow Card, Onafriq Partner with Circle to Enable Stablecoin Payments Across Africa

Plus: ⚖️ Apple, Meta Fined $770 Million

🚙 May Day Strike: 5,000 Ride-Hailing Drivers to Protest in Lagos

Plus:📱Meta Launches ‘Edits’, a Free Video Creation App to Rival CapCut

📱USSD Fees May Soon Come from Airtime, Not Bank Accounts

Plus:💰Techstars Now Offers $220K to Startups

Happy Easter!

📣 Google Found to Have Illegally Monopolized Digital Ad Tech Market

Plus: 🚀 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator Africa

💵 Interpol Joins EFCC in N1.3tn CBEX Probe

Plus: 💸 Moniepoint Launches MonieWorld

💵 OPay’s valuation reaches $2.75 billion

Plus:📱Zuckerberg in Meta’s historic antitrust trial

💰 Arnergy Raises $18m to Expand Solar Access in Nigeria

Plus:📱MTN South Sudan secures 15-year operating license

💰 Nigeria Secures $30.9 Million Deal with Japan to Boost Startups

Plus: 💰 Stitch secures $55 million funding

📉 USADF Slashes $51m in Support To African Startups & Farmers

Plus: Peach Payments acquires PayDunya

🏦 AFC Surpasses $1 Billion Revenue

Plus: Sweden Unveils Its Largest African Innovation Hub in Lagos