Five Zambian startups have graduated from the Launch accelerator programme run by the Lusaka-based tech and innovation hub BongoHive. The…
Month: December 2016
The South African Department of Small Business Development has launched the Amavulandlela Fund, aimed at offering financial backing to disabled…
South African startup OurHood, which provides private local neighbourhood networks that allow neighbours to access information specifically relevant to them,…
A new e-book – Digital Kenya, An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making – has been released, analysing the East African…
South African Internet of Things startup IoT.nxt will open an office in London early in 2017, signalling the first international…
The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) has hosted the first Egyptian edition of its Angel Investor Masterclass, bringing together the…
Rwandan startup MindSky is offering a smarter way for employers to find vetted, pre-screened talent, and plans to expand across…
South Africa’s Standard Bank has acquired a majority stake in Firepay, the company behind mobile payments solution SnapScan. Firepay, formed…
Three Egyptian startups have been crowned winners of the third edition of the Innoventures Startup Reactor incubator, taking home EUR10,000…
In this guest post, Peter Kariuki and Barrett Nash, the co-founders of Rwandan motorcycle taxi app SafeMotos, discuss the limits…