Nigerian startup MyJobMag, which launched in 2012 offering recruitment services, has expanded to Kenya. MyJobMag, launched by Ogugua Belonwu, has…
Month: September 2016
Nigerian on-demand delivery startup Metro Africa Express (MAX) has acquired Lagos-based Easyappetite as it prepares to launch a food delivery…
The Lagos Angel Network (LAN) has opened applications for its last quarterly DealDay for 2016, having invested NGN50 million (US$160,000)…
Nigerian startup QuickGas has successfully completed piloting its e-commerce platform for cooking gas in the northern city of Jos, with…
Fourteen startups have been shortlisted for the Thomson Reuters Africa Startups Challenge, with one of the finalists to win US$10,000…
Ethiopia-born entrepreneur Brook Negussie has launched eLearnAfrica, an online marketplace for education that aims to simplify the process of finding…
There were 57 crowdfunding platforms operational across Africa in 2015, while African crowdfunding projects raised an estimated US$126.9 million, according…
South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the UK-based Global Innovation Fund (GIF) have signed a three-year partnership…
Entrepreneurs in East Africa lack the support and time to bring their innovative ideas to fruition, and so government and…
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution, has announced commitment and first disbursement of a…