Our second infographic focuses on commerce in Africa and the opportunities that lie therein.

Our first infographic highlights internet penetration rates across the continent.

SweepSouth is an on-demand home clearing services platform that operates in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. SweepSouth’s $11M round of funding will allow the company to further develop and grow its infrastructure.

Stitch offers instant EFT payments and financial data APIs for African businesses. LinkPay, Stitch’s flagship product, will make the instant EFT payments service available to Zapper’s customers, tokenizing their financial accounts and enabling verified payments and payouts.

Google has selected 60 African startups for the second cohort of the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund (BFF). Healthlane is among the grantees who will receive training and awards of $50,000 to $100,000 and up to $200,000 in Google Cloud credit.