Born in Hungary, Aniko Szigetvari has over 20 years of experience investing in emerging markets, mainly focused on technology, media and telecom (TMT), and a stellar résumé that now has her heading up one of Africa’s newest and most active VC firms. Previously global head of the TMT Group at the International Finance Corporation, leading [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan prop-tech startup Obodo has launched a pilot product that is a property management tool for real estate agents and individual landlords to help them easily and affordably manage their rental units. The platform – which is called Kijiji and was founded by James Muriuki, Skitah Wambui and Mark Muita – will also allow Obodo [...] Read more ›
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South Africa’s Sw7, which claims to be Africa’s largest virtual business accelerator, is looking to up the ante of its content and support for thousands of African enterprises by tapping into a formula partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud solutions provider. The Johannesburg-based Sw7 helps startups prepare for and find funding, [...] Read more ›
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Having started life as a simple robotics club, Tunisian ed-tech startup Junior Robotics Lab now has resellers in various African and European markets, and is targeting further growth. Born in 2017 as an organiser of robotics clubs, with kids starting from the age of eight and learn how to design, code, and build robots, Junior [...] Read more ›
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“At the beginning of 2020, we had two strategic goals: to expand into international markets and to reach the grassroots with tech skills,” says Adeola Owosho, Vice President International Business at Utiva. “In the third quarter, we finally launched ‘The Nucleus’, an encrypted device with more than 40 well-curated pre-installed learning content with zero reliance [...] Read more ›
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South African e-health startup VitruvianMD has raised an eight-figure ZAR – so at least ZAR10 million (US$659,000) – funding round in order to scale its tech and launch more pilots. Founded last year, VitruvianMD combines biomedical engineering and state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver affordable, high-accuracy diagnostic tools for medical laboratories, with a particular focus [...] Read more ›
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Eight African fintech startups have been selected to participate in the latest edition of the GreenHouse Lab accelerator, securing access to funding and mentorship. GreenHouse Lab is the flagship accelerator programme run by GreenHouse Capital, a Lagos-based fintech investment fund and platform focused on supporting early-stage companies and world-class emerging market entrepreneurs building the next [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech startup Revio, a subscription billing and payments platform that powers software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses, is planning expansion into other African markets soon. Co-founded in 2019 by venture builder The Delta and a private investor, Revio is a SaaS company that powers growing or scaling e-commerce and subscription-based businesses. In its simplest form, Revio [...] Read more ›
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South African celebrity engagement startup myFanPark has secured investment from new local VC firm Seed South as it works on a larger seed funding round to help it further expand. Launched in 2019, myFanPark allows users to request a personalised shout-out video from their favourite celebrity, such as birthday or celebration messages. After payment, the [...] Read more ›
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OUR OFFER TO SELECTED START-UPS: Tailor-made company development support for 9-months implemented by renowned venture builders (GreenTec Capital, Co-Creation Hub, Flat6Labs and Luvent Consulting) for a total value of about US$30,000 per start-up additional services for a total value of up to 10k usd per start-up to improve certain segments of the business (e.g. Coding, [...] Read more ›
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The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) has announced the four Southern African startups that will go on to the HiiL Justice Accelerator. HiiL is a social enterprise devoted to user-friendly justice, which aims to increase access to justice that is easy to access, easy to understand, and effective by stimulating innovation and scaling [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan customer loyalty startup CashBackApp has raised a US$475,000 pre-seed funding round to help scale its service in Kenya and prepare for expansion to neighbouring countries. Formed in late-2018, CashBackApp helps fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies to build loyalty amongst customers by allowing them to earn cashback via M-Pesa on their everyday shopping. The startup [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian student transportation platform Schoolz has raised a six-figure US dollar pre-seed funding round to expand into the business sphere as well as provide SaaS solutions to companies in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Founded in 2020 by Hosni Ahmed, Abdel Monsef Ismail and Ayman Hamza, Schoolz has launched a mobile application that helps provide a [...] Read more ›
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India-headquartered accelerator Startup Réseau has opened applications for the Wazo Challenge East Africa, which offers selected startups access to mentorship, technology credits and funding. Startup Réseau launched its East Africa outpost in January, under its new Africa-focused brand Hindsight Ventures. Having started out with the Wazo Challenge Tanzania in February, Startup Réseau has quickly concluded [...] Read more ›
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Ghana-based payments startup Waya is seeing month-on-month growth of between 20 per cent in its three existing markets, prompting it to launch expansion activities into three additional African countries. Founded in 2018 after co-founder Delali Anku-Adiamah faced a challenge sending money back to Ghana while travelling around Africa, Waya provides seamless local and international payments [...] Read more ›
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South African hardware backer Savant has made five investments worth a total of ZAR18 million (US$1.22 million) over the last 12 months. A hardware technology incubator, Savant was established by Nick Allen in 2005, and provides commercial support to innovators and inventors who have developed science and engineering based technologies and products. It launched a [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian competitive e-sports startup Gamr has secured seed investment to scale its operations further and deliver new opportunities to Africa’s estimated 750 million gamers. Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organisers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, [...] Read more ›
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Startup-focused news and research company Disrupt Africa will next month launch its first geographically-focused research publication after partnering with Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA). Since launching its research arm in 2016, Disrupt Africa has built up a significant portfolio of publications, most notably the African Tech Startups Funding Report and Finnovating for Africa, [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian social platform for gifting Showlove has closed a US$300,000 pre-seed funding round as it goes live with the first version of its product. Founded in 2020 by Chikodi Ukaiwe, Joshua Biyere and Seye Bandele, Showlove is simplifying the process of requesting, giving and receiving gifts and cash, while also helping African businesses promote their [...] Read more ›
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Wayja, a cashless peer-to-peer (P2P) betting platform that allows users to connect with friends and place informal bets on anything, from anywhere, has launched in South Africa, and is already targeting international growth after raising seed funding. Founded in early 2020 by Reece Jacobsen and Clinton Holroyd, and made open to the public in June [...] Read more ›
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