The first Bitcoin Academy in Africa has been launched at the Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town, offering basic, intermediary and…
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 Ghana-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced its latest cohort of entrepreneurs in training (EITs), which contains…
Applications have opened for the New Economy Accelerator (NEA) programme, aimed at assisting businesses in South Africa servicing the low…
m:lab East Africa has partnered technical computer security collective AfricaHackOn to launch a cybersecurity programme for Kenyan startups and entrepreneurs,…
South African newspaper the Sunday Times has partnered First National Bank (FNB) to launch Dragons’ Den-type contest Shark Tank in…
Two African fintech startups, Kenya’s SuperFluid and South Africa’s Creditable, are part of the first cohort of the DBS Accelerator…
Switzerland-based financial services firm UBS has launched its Future of Finance Challenge, an open competition for entrepreneurs and tech startups…
Courier-on-demand service WumDrop, microjobbing platform M4Jam and eye test app Vula Mobile were among the winners at the MTN Business…
Legal platform LexNove has launched in South Africa, allowing legal service providers to bid for user-posted jobs and describing itself…
Being declared the winner of the Ghanaian leg of the global Seedstars World competition – and with it earning the…