Investors interested in backing African tech startups must take a long view and make efforts to understand local dynamics if…
Month: May 2017
The co-working and event space at the new Nairobi iHub in Hurlingham is 90 per cent complete, with the first…
Cape Town is South Africa’s startup hub, with almost 60 per cent of South Africa’s VC funds located in the…
Ten African fintech companies have been picked to compete in the SWIFT Innotribe Startup Challenge, which will see three companies…
South African Internet of Things startup IoT.nxt will open its first fully-fledged office in Europe in the Netherlands in July,…
Egyptian online grocery service GoodsMart has raised US$750,000 in funding from Algebra Ventures, which will go towards growing its operational…
South African startup Vizibiliti Insight is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help the commercial property sector pre-screen tenants and predict…
The third edition of the Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) will take place in Cape Town on October…
Western Cape startup support ecosystem Silicon Cape has appointed its first permanent managing director (MD) as it moves away from…
In the wake of last week’s World IP Day, Microsoft 4Afrika’s corporate affairs director Louis Otieno explores the state of…