Airtel Nigeria has announced the first winners of its Catapult-a-Startup initiative, with seven startups taking home NGN1 million (US$5,000) in…
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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.
South African venture capital (VC) firm AngelHub Ventures has invested in e-book startup Snapplify, with the funds to be used…
The Johannesburg-based African Leadership Academy has been awarded a grant of US$150,000 from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to assist it…
The founders of Nigerian startup Termii, a networking platform that integrates social, personal and business structures on a unified network,…
Solvesting, a hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform that connects local banks and microfinance institutions with accredited investors in a bid…
South Africans Craig Kleu and John Willmore hate slow golf, as do a lot of people. But these two hate…
Facebook, through its Internet.org initiative, and WordPress have been confirmed as the two major sponsors of the Hack for Big…
A number of African investors and entrepreneurs are set to speak at Black Tech Week in Miami, United States (US)…
The tech startup space in Africa is exciting because entrepreneurs are forced to think differently and create innovative solutions to…
South Africa-based website-building startup VIGO has set itself a goal of helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) prosper, and is…