Informal sector employment app Lynk has been crowned winner of the third Safaricom Appwiz Challenge, taking home KES1.5 million (US$14,685).…
Author: Gabriella Mulligan
Gabriella Mulligan
Inspired and excited by the African tech entrepreneurial scene, Gabriella spends her time travelling around the continent to report on the most innovative tech startups, the most active investors, and the latest trends emerging in the ecosystem.
South African website building startup VIGO has announced a partnership with Asian domain registrar Webnic, under which VIGO’s website building…
Tanzanian off-grid solar energy provider Off Grid Electric has raised a US$25 million funding round, enabling it to expand to…
UK- and Bahrain-based technology investor C5 Accelerate Limited has announced the launch of what it claims to be the first…
Livestock management app Modisar has been crowned winner of the Botswanan leg of startup pitching competition Seedstars World, in the…
Crowdfunding has become a global fundraising phenomenon over the last half decade, and increasingly, the trend holds true in Africa.…
Kenyan accelerator m:lab East Africa has been ranked among the top 10 university business accelerators in the world, by performance…
Ugandan startup The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG) has been selected to participate in the 13th Blackbox Connect accelerator programme to…
Taxi hailing app Easy Taxi has integrated Lipa na M-Pesa mobile money payment for its Kenyan operations, in efforts to…
Paris-based New Cities Foundation has opened applications for its Global Urban Innovators competition, searching for the world’s top startups using…