Pan-African private investment firm Helios Investment Partners has raised over US$1 billion for a third Africa-focused fund, with the firm…
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Nigerian video-on-demand (VoD) company iROKOtv and Tigo Rwanda have partnered to provide free video entertainment to the operator’s 4G/LTE subscribers.…
South African mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) has launched the De Beers Marine Zimele Business Hub in Cape…
South African firm Via Afrika, which develops digital educational content, has partnered educational platform Tabtor to boost digital mathematics learning…
South Africa’s Competition Commission has approved the proposed merger of e-commerce brands Takealot and Kalahari, with the merger now set…
Eleven Nigerian banks, led by the country’s oldest financial institution the Bank of Industry (BOI), have partnered to fund the…
Silicon Valley-based venture-building firm MIT Ventures has announced the launch of the UNITED innovation programme in West Africa, aimed at…
South African venture capital (VC) fund AngelHub Ventures invested almost ZAR20 million (US$1.7 million) in five startups in 2014 despite…
The US$100 million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) has opened to applications from interested African entrepreneurs, with prospective applicants…
South African startup accelerator programme Sw7, which formed earlier this year, is hoping to raise a fund in the second…