East African pay-as-you-go energy provider for off-grid customers M-KOPA Solar has announced it has powered up 200,000 homes in the…
Month: May 2015
South African accelerator Ignitor is accepting applications for two zero-equity accelerator programmes, planning to teach startups the lean mentality through…
Event booking and management system Moovi was named the winner of the Mozambique leg of the global Seedstars World pitching…
The same rules apply to e-commerce businesses as to the likes of banking, telecommunications and street trading, and startups are…
Global startups competition Seedstars World is to kick off a string of African events tonight in Maputo, Mozambique, with 11…
Youth entrepreneurship organisations from six East African Commonwealth (EAC) countries have agreed to form an alliance, to be known as…
A group of international investors have partnered to establish the US$30 million investment company Business Partners International East Africa (BPI…
Nigerian online hotel booking platform Hotels.ng has raised a US$1.2 million funding round from Omidyar Network and EchoVC, which will…
StartUpWestAfrica.org has gone live with the aim of crowdmapping startups and incubators in Lagos, Accra, Abidjan and Dakar, stressing the…
In 1986, then Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi launched the Nyayo Car project, an ambitious move aimed at creating a…