South Africa’s Competition Commission has approved the proposed merger of e-commerce brands Takealot and Kalahari, with the merger now set…
Month: January 2015
Johannesburg-based startup SweepSouth, which launched in June of last year, reached an operational break-even point in September and is focused…
Cameroonian incubator ActivSpaces has opened the application window for its Activation Bootcamp, a six-month accelerator programme which will offer startups…
Nigerian hotel booking platform Jovago sees double-digit revenue growth each month, as it taps into the growing tourism market in…
Eleven Nigerian banks, led by the country’s oldest financial institution the Bank of Industry (BOI), have partnered to fund the…
Silicon Valley-based venture-building firm MIT Ventures has announced the launch of the UNITED innovation programme in West Africa, aimed at…
South African venture capital (VC) fund AngelHub Ventures invested almost ZAR20 million (US$1.7 million) in five startups in 2014 despite…
Yann Le Beux, catalyst at Senegalese incubator CTIC Dakar, takes us through the advantages and disadvantages of different incubator models…
The US$100 million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) has opened to applications from interested African entrepreneurs, with prospective applicants…