PRESS RELEASE Bizao, a fintech dedicated to the African market, announces that is has recently closed its €8 million series A funding round which was led by key investors including AfricInvest, Adelie, and Seedstars Africa Ventures.  Since 2019, Bizao has secured, in 10 African countries, over 30 partnerships with telco operators, banks, and mobile money […]

Mobile money is an African innovation. Fact. Researchers found that Sub-Saharan Africa alone had about 548 million registered mobile money accounts in 2020 with a transaction value of $490 billion. Enter Aurélien Duval-Delort, the founder and chief executive of Bizao, a fintech that offers payment solutions across the continent. His mission? To democratise access to […]

The ride from Lagos to Ganvie, a lake village in Benin republic, is about 150km. The village’s 35,000 people live in a scenic environment that invites curious tourists who have dubbed it the Venice of Africa. But like a number of cities in the french-speaking countries in Africa, Ganvie has a problem; it is a fairly underdeveloped […]

Back in March, Africa had been designated by many as the “lost continent” when it comes to fighting Covid-19. It comes now as a surprise that the death toll and number of infected people are far below everyone expectations. Africa so far has registered fewer deaths caused by COVID-19 than USA in one single day. […]

The Viva Technology 2019 exhibition took place at the Paris Expo, porte de Versailles and hosted for three days over 124,000 visitors and 13,000 startups from every domain. Bizao was part of the game. The main theme this year was Europe but this edition still had a lot of interest for the African region: over […]