Kenyan startups Tumakaro and SokoNect won cash investments of US$5,000 each after pitching to judges at the Mobile Impact Ventures…
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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.
The Egyptian government has announced a public-private partnership partnership (PPP) to launch the EGP10 billion (US$1.4 billion) Ayady for Investment…
With its innovative way of creating interoperability in Kenya’s multi-SIM environment, award-winning startup Chura is seeing strong growth in uptake…
Cape Town-based publishing startup Paperight, which has won a host of international awards and is funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation,…
South African Luvuyo Rani, co-founder of Silulo Ulutho Technologies, has been named a 2014 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of…
Property platform Lamudi has revamped its website to offer a more intuitive design, streamlining the online house-hunting process for users…
Tanzanian company Juabar, which designs and builds solar charging kiosks before leasing them to a network of entrepreneurs who use…
The D-Prize competition, which will award selected social entrepreneurs with US$20,000 to launch a pilot of a programme that could…
The fourth and final leg of the AMPION Venture Bus has begun in Tunisia next week, with the trip’s special…
Three teams from Giza, Egypt and one from Harare, Zimbabwe were named finalists in various categories of the Global Startup…