Standard Chartered and Strathmore University’s @iBizAfrica have opened applications for the fourth edition of the Women in Tech programme, which provides access to a funding pool of KES5 million (US$46,000) and other benefits. The programme – which has so far supported more than 40 entrepreneurs – is targeting women-led small and medium sized businesses leveraging [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan e-health startup Ilara Health, which provides point of care diagnostic testing to small primary care clinics, has received a US$1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal health outcomes in the country. Ilara Health provides affordable diagnostic equipment to patients and healthcare providers in peri-urban areas and has partnered [...] Read more ›
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South African retailer Pick n Pay has concluded an agreement to purchase on-demand delivery startup Bottles. Disrupt Africa first reported on Bottles back in 2016, and the startup has been steadily growing since. Following the prohibition on the sale of alcohol in South Africa in March, Bottles repurposed its app within four days, emerging with [...] Read more ›
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West African startup Gozem, which started out in the ride-hailing business but has been adding product lines as it transitions into a “super app”, has acquired Delivroum, Togo’s leading food delivery app. Launched in Togo in November of 2018 on the back of raising US$900,000 in funding, ride-hailing app Gozem swiftly expanded to Benin and [...] Read more ›
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The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the SAB Foundation have partnered to launch the Student Seed Fund, offering Cape Town student entrepreneurs the chance to access capital to scale their innovations. The Student Seed Fund is open to all UCT, UCT GSB and RAA students and recent alumni, and entrepreneurs that have [...] Read more ›
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“The African startup ecosystem is now mainstream, and venture capital is on its way to becoming the number one asset class on the continent.” That is the view of Ceasar Nyagah, investment officer at Partech Africa, which is itself one of the most active VC firms on the continent. Founded in Silicon Valley in 1982, [...] Read more ›
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South African startup The Gradient Boost, which has launched an online mentor-guided data science school to accelerate learning processes, has expanded into Nigeria after raising a round of seed funding. Disrupt Africa reported in May The Gradient Boost had launched its “Introduction to Data Science” course, aiming to make digital learning more effective by combining [...] Read more ›
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Virtual event Africa Tech Summit Connects kicks off tomorrow (Tuesday, October 20), bringing together the great and the good of the African tech and startup ecosystem to discuss the sector’s advancement in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. Disrupt Africa announced last month it had reprised its partnership with Africa Tech Summit (ATS) to power [...] Read more ›
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Catalyst Fund has partnered the Mastercard Foundation and MEST to launch its Inclusive Digital Accelerator programme in Ghana, the first expansion of its flagship inclusive fintech programme. Catalyst Fund, which is managed by BFA Global, said the Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator was aimed at scaling digital commerce companies in Ghana, and would officially launch at [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Digiduka has launched its platform, which helps bring informal retailers into the digital economy by empowering them to start selling online. Formed and funded during the inaugural cohort of the Antler programme in Nairobi, Digiduka is initially focused on building up the underlying digital payments rails that are needed as a first step [...] Read more ›
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The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, has opened applications for its upcoming South Africa Virtual 2020 programme, which aims to help early-stage entrepreneurs build their businesses alongside a support network of startup experts. Founded in 2009 by Adeo Ressi and Jonathan Greechan and operated out of Palo Alto, California, the Founder Institute [...] Read more ›
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South African startup FooEvents, an event and ticketing platform for WooCommerce that makes it possible to sell access to events, venues and other services directly from a WordPress website, has surpassed one million attendee check-ins using its apps. Created by Grenade, a distributed technology company that operates out of South Africa and North America, FooEvents [...] Read more ›
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The African tech ecosystem has witnessed a landmark moment after Nigerian fintech company Paystack was acquired by global payments leader Stripe in a deal reports say could be worth more than US$200 million. Launched in January 2016 by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, Paystack is a payments company that helps businesses in Africa get paid [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian marketing technology company Dochase has unveiled its WhatsApp chatbot product, which allows businesses to interact with customers, gain leads, and automate sales processes. Founded in 2014 and launched in 2015, Dochase developed programmatic technology that helps advertisers reach the right customers by breaking down marketing reach to GEO locations, user demographics and behaviour. The [...] Read more ›
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Africa-focused venture capital firm TLcom Capital will host the second Africa Tech Female Founder Summit virtually on October 27, aimed at equipping female entrepreneurs to scale their businesses in the era of COVID-19. TLcom has launched a call for applications for female tech founders across Africa to attend this year’s virtual summit, which features speakers [...] Read more ›
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Accelerators backed by or focused on corporates are the way of the future on the continent given the mutual benefits to be had. That is the view of Kofo Sanusi, chief operating officer (COO) of Founders Factory Africa, who was speaking on the latest episode of Disrupt Podcast. Founders Factory, which originally launched in London [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan ed-tech startup Eneza Education has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to launch its SMS-based learning platform Shupavu in Rwanda, enabling students to remain engaged in their studies while they wait for schools to reopen. Launched in 2013, Eneza Education provides learning and revision materials via any phone, however basic, and is active in Kenya, [...] Read more ›
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Ten finalists have been selected for the Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), which will offer selected innovative tech startups access to a US$1.5 million prize pool. The Jack Ma Foundation launched the second edition of ANPI earlier this year. Created by Alibaba founder Jack Ma after his first trip to Africa in [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian ed-tech startup Edves is in the process of raising a US$500,000 seed funding round as it continues to expand operations across Africa. Formed in 2016, Edves is an academic portal that automates operations in schools and colleges from admission to transcript generation. The platform reduces teacher and administrator workload and gives them opportunities to [...] Read more ›
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In 2016 there were three large tech companies who had plans to beam internet down to Earth from the sky but each scenario which they approached had sounded crazier than the next. Two of the scenarios that were approached, became fruitful. Thirty-five Google Loon balloons which were launched in Kenya to transmit 4G signal to [...] Read more ›
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