Malaysia-headquartered Frontier Digital Ventures is to increase its shareholding in Moroccan online car classifieds startup Moteur.ma to 49 per cent…
Author: Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson
Passionate about the vibrant tech startups scene in Africa, Tom can usually be found sniffing out the continent's most exciting new companies and entrepreneurs, funding rounds and any other developments within the growing ecosystem.
The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) is to hold an angel investor masterclass in Douala, Cameroon, as part of a…
There are more than 8.5 million South Africans that are members of stokvels, savings and investment societies to which members…
Nigerian startup MyJobMag, which launched in 2012 offering recruitment services, has expanded to Kenya. MyJobMag, launched by Ogugua Belonwu, has…
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…
Ethiopia-born entrepreneur Brook Negussie has launched eLearnAfrica, an online marketplace for education that aims to simplify the process of finding…
South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the UK-based Global Innovation Fund (GIF) have signed a three-year partnership…
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution, has announced commitment and first disbursement of a…