Kenyan fintech startup Weza Tele has been acquired by financial services group AFB for US$1.7 million, the largest acquisition of…
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.
Moroccan researcher Adnane Remmal was last night announced the winner of the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) Innovation Prize for Africa…
Susan Shabangu, minister for women in the South African Presidency, says her department will work with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)…
President of the United States (US) Barack Obama is to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Nairobi, Kenya on…
Seventy per cent of South African startups say they require funding in order to grow their businesses, with 83 per…
African accelerator programme ALN Ventures has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative in order to support entrepreneurs…
Many African startups could be forgiven for casting envious glances in the direction of South African microjobbing platform M4JAM, which…
Cape Town-based online platform MasterStart has launched, providing an interactive e-commerce course created by a team of local entrepreneurs to…
Startups Intelworld and Vula Mobile were offered a total of US$150,000 in funding from investors at the Sparkup! Live pitching…
Seed-stage investing is on the up across the world, now accounting for 67 per cent of all venture capital (VC)…