Africa is “ripe” with entrepreneurial spirit and business opportunities from the need to solve everyday problems, according to Christina Tamer,…
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.
Increasingly, African mobile manufacturers are in vogue. In South Africa, there is Zest and Dream Mobile. Congo has VMK. The…
South African crowdfunding platform Thundafund is to launch a community fundraising sister site at the end of January next year,…
The total capital invested in African startups more than doubled to US$26.9 million in 2014 compared to US$12 million in…
South African startup TheRoomLink is reporting growth of between 1,000 and 2,000 users per month as it approaches the first…
Non-profit Lagos-based incubator iDEA has partnered MicroMentor in a bid to create a diaspora-focused community of volunteer mentors to assist…
Nigerian online hotel reservation service Hotels.ng has announced it has hit 6,000 listings on its service, and aims to hit…
The Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP) at the US State Department has partnered Girl Up, Intel, Microsoft and the…
South Africa-based mobile point of sale (PoS) service Nomanini has partnered Zambian airtime distributor StreetCred to facilitate the rollout of…
Ghanaian startup Kudobuzz, a reviewing and marketing solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has doubled revenues and seen 25…