South African e-health startup Oyi has been awarded ZAR450,000 (US$27,000) in grant funding after taking part in the virtual demo day that marked the end of the AlphaCode Incubate programme. AlphaCode is the Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI) incubation, acceleration and investment vehicle that identifies, partners and grows early-stage financial service ventures. Its Incubate programme [...] Read more ›
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South African prop-tech startup reOS, which has developed a management platform for rental professionals, has publicly launched with the backing of heavyweight local angels including Bill Paladino and Mark Forrester. Launched last month having been in the pipeline for three years, reOS automates two-thirds of a rental professional’s monthly tasks, including invoicing, collections, payments, communications, [...] Read more ›
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Remitano, global P2P crypto exchange, has just launched a new online job market – MIssion, the platform’s latest element in its push to realize its full potential and open a new window of employment opportunities to crypto users. Missions are simple, short-term tasks that anyone can do and get paid for. For example, “Share a [...] Read more ›
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Good Nature Agro, a tech-enabled Zambian company working from end-to-end within the specialised legume value chains, has raised Series A equity funding worth US$2.1 million to help it accelerate its growth. Founded in 2014, Good Nature Agro partners with smallholder farmers to improve their productivity through soil-enriching legume farming, and links them to high-value legume [...] Read more ›
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South African startup jobs4mzansi has launched its marketplace platform that connects skilled professionals with users that need certain tasks completed. Founded by Siviwe Mgolodela, jobs4mzansi connects South Africans to micro-jobs on a freelance basis, and also offers employed users the chance to start a “side hustle”. “I wanted to create a simple and safe way [...] Read more ›
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Tanzanian agri-tech startup Kilimo Fresh, a digital distributor of fresh produce to hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, institutions, wholesalers and export markets, was in August named winner of the MEST Africa Challenge, winning US$50,000 in equity investment. Kilimo Fresh is a B2B produce distribution platform that connects smallholder farmers and produce buyers to a fair and reliable [...] Read more ›
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Disrupt Podcast offers listeners a fortnightly wrap-up of all the developments in the African tech startup ecosystem, interviews with key players, and audio pitches from innovative companies. Increasing access to information and analysis of the African startup scene is at the heart of Disrupt Africa’s mission, and its content offering is now broader with the [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan retail-tech platform Sokowatch has been named winner of the Visa Everywhere Initiative – Pandemic Challenge, aimed at identifying solutions to help rebuild small businesses affected by COVID-19. The Visa Everywhere Initiative is a global innovation programme by Visa that calls for startups and fintech companies to step up and provide solutions to tomorrow’s commerce [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan water and utility startup HydroIQ has launched a smart billing app that enables property managers and utilities to digitise their water metering, billing, payments and customer service without replacing their current infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Brian Bosire and Victor Shikoli as the world’s first virtual water network operator (VWNO), HydroIQ took part in [...] Read more ›
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The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) and VC4A have announced the seventh edition of the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit will take place on November 3-4, fully virtual. Having taken place until now each year in Cape Town, the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit brings together Africa’s early-stage investor community. As a result of the [...] Read more ›
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The Entertainment and Media market in the top five African markets – Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya – is worth US$19 billion per year, and is also one of the fastest growing in the world. Yet the extent to which tech platforms – and social media in particular – help celebrities and admired [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian online fashion rental service La Reina has raised an undisclosed six-figure investment in a seed funding round it will use to expand its team and launch a new fashion subscription service. Founded in 2016 by Ghada El-Tanawy and Amr Diab after they experienced their own problems getting hold of a bridal dress, La Reina [...] Read more ›
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South African internet service provider (ISP) SimpliConnect has launched operations, claiming to deliver a full suite of business and consumer connectivity solutions with an emphasis on convenience, efficiency, and simplicity. Founded in 2019, Simpli is a connectivity and digital services enabler that aims to make buying connectivity, hardware and software simple. It offers digital services [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech startups have been invited to apply for the latest edition of the AlphaCode Incubate programme, which aims to identify, partner and grow innovative financial services entrepreneurs. AlphaCode is the Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI) incubation, acceleration and investment vehicle that identifies, partners and grows early-stage financial service ventures. Its Incubate programme has [...] Read more ›
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During the 2008 financial crisis Warren Buffett famously coined the phrase “only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked”. What was true a decade ago has been amplified with the current global economic crisis, writes Jean-Claude Homawoo, co-founder of Kenyan logistics startup Lori Systems. In 2019, the valuation bubble of [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan startup Ecobodaa is launching the country’s first electric motorcycle taxis in a bid to help drivers spend money on fuel and servicing. Formed this year and recently selected for the Nairobi-based Africa Transformative Mobility Accelerator, Ecobodaa is to begin rolling out the e-bikes soon under a rent-to-own model. We have a prototype which we [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian cold storage startup ColdHubs has been named winner of the Sustainable and Healthy Food for All category at the annual Global Maker Challenge, taking home US$100,000 in prize money. Each year, the Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity runs the Global Maker Challenge, with this year’s four challenges related to the themes of [...] Read more ›
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Anyone that has struggled to easily and affordably purchase modern furniture items in Africa recently will know the associated challenges, but Nigerian startup Taeillo is here to help. Formed in 2018, Taeillo is an e-commerce startup based out of Lagos that makes it easy for Africans to shop for furniture online, and even applies augmented [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan retail-tech startup DukaPos has launched a mobile point of sale solution for small-scale merchants that digitises and automates most shop operations. Formed in February by Isaac Sichangi and Evalyn Lwoba, DukaPos offers subscription-based access to its platform, which helps storekeepers with things like stock management, invoice generation, staff management, receipt generating, sales reports and [...] Read more ›
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Mastercard has launched a new programme aimed at providing tailor-made solutions that boost market entry and expansion for fintechs in Africa and the Middle East. Fintech Express will leverage the power of partnerships and Mastercard’s expertise, technology, and global network to help fintech companies focus on innovation that drives the digital economy. The programme is [...] Read more ›
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