Slack’s Stewart Butterfield, Box’s Aaron Levie and Craig Newmark of Craigslist have provided donations to the Nairobi-based Impact Africa Network to help it absorb more people into its 12-month Innovation Fellowship programme. Impact Africa Network is a non-profit startup studio on a mission to ensure young talented Africans can participate in the digital transformation of [...] Read more ›
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Ethiopian ed-tech and job placement startup Gebeya has signed a US$500,000 advisory services agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to implement the Digital Gender-Ethiopia Programme, aimed at solving the issues of gender disparity in the areas of technology and innovation. Gebeya focuses on cultivating the untapped tech potential of African youth to prepare them [...] Read more ›
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Applications have opened for the Space-Tech Challenge 2020, which will identify and develop the most promising new innovators, entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses in the space-tech sector across Africa. Space-Tech applications use earth observation to gather information about the physical, chemical and biological systems of the planet via remote-sensing technologies. Such tech has seen a surge [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian e-health startup RxAll has become the latest company selected to participate in Founders Factory Africa’s Venture Scale programme, which provides access to funding and additional support services. Founders Factory, which originally launched in London in 2015 and has already built 70 startups, launched African operations in Johannesburg in 2018, from where it plans to [...] Read more ›
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Zambian startup Zambezii has begun monetising its B2B e-commerce platform, which leverages technology to give manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors exposure across African markets. A simplified solution that reduces the barriers to entry, Zambezii is open to all companies from across Africa, and allows user to set up a virtual store and list products. Buyers can [...] Read more ›
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Pan-African entrepreneurial training programme, seed fund and incubator MEST Africa has partnered the Mastercard Foundation to make the MEST Express accelerator available to Ghanaian startups. Born in Ghana and still based in Accra even as it has become more pan-Africa, MEST is returning to its roots during COVID-19 with the launch of MEST Express, an [...] Read more ›
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South African startup Valenture Institute, a tech-enabled high school launched last year by GetSmarter co-founder Rob Paddock, has secured US$7 million in funding for growth globally. Paddock, who exited GetSmarter to Nasdaq-listed 2U in 2017, launched Valenture Institute in January 2019, offering a curriculum recognised by the world’s leading universities. Already established as a fully-fledged [...] Read more ›
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The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has approved US$6 million in equity investments in Africa-based e-commerce companies Copia Global and Kasha. The US development bank, DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world, investing across sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and technology. [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian e-health startup Rology has raised a US$860,000 pre-Series A round which it will use primarily to to fuel its growth in Saudi Arabia and Kenya. Founded by Amr Abodraiaa, Moaaz Hossam, Mahmoud Eldefrawy and Bassam Khallaf in October 2017, Rology has built a cloud-based platform that provides intelligent matchmaking between patients and remote radiologists, [...] Read more ›
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Ntende Kenneth and John Kigony are already busy running Ugandan fintech startup DusuPay, which is going great guns, but they have diversified this year with the launch of a new startup – enterprise software provider MonkeyPesa. DusuPay, which provides infrastructure that allows global businesses to make and accept mobile payments across Africa, averages US$150,000 in [...] Read more ›
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When Robert Mtshali first launched MobiWash in Gauteng’s Alexandra township in 2014, he used a bicycle to travel to clients to wash their cars. Yet uptake was slow. “The market wasn’t ready for such a service. People in the township were still used to the old traditional way of going to the car wash, so [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan co-working company Nairobi Garage and entrepreneurial club METTĀ have announced they are combining their services to create a new innovation community, offering flexible access to all their workspaces and networks, as well as a new digital event series. Nairobi Garage is a premium workspace for innovative and growing businesses, housing 150 companies across four [...] Read more ›
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Washington DC-based venture capital firm Openner is accepting applications from Egyptian start-ups, aiming to identify 50 startups to expand and scale them locally, regionally and globally through its accelerator. A pre-seed and seed VC firm that has invested US$25 million in over 100 portfolio companies in the United States since 2016, Openner provides funding, technology [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan green and environmental solutions startup KOKO Networks has rolled out it first business line in KOKO Fuel, which uses a range of hardware and software tech to make clean bioethanol fuel more affordable. Venture-backed tech company KOKO Networks, which has been quietly building over the last few years, rolled out KOKO Fuel late last [...] Read more ›
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Philanthropic organisation Bestseller Foundation has launched an accelerator programme for waste-to-value enterprises in East Africa. In December of last year, the Denmark-based Bestseller Foundation partnered Intellecap to launch the Waste to Value Challenge in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, and received over 400 applications from which six enterprises were finally selected. These enterprises will be [...] Read more ›
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Kenyan fintech startup Zagace has been quietly raising a US$16.7 million seed round since 2016 as it plans to expand across the world. Founded by Mubarak Muyika in Kenya in 2013, Zagace provides software packages composed of accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, sales, marketing, stock management and storage. Targeting micro-businesses with 10 employees or less, Zagace’s core [...] Read more ›
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South African fintech startup Ozow has launched what it is calling the “Ozow Revolution”, rolling out two new payments platforms and zero-rating data costs to ensure all South Africans can access digital payments. Ozow, which rebranded from i-Pay in April 2019 as it zeroed in on assisting SMEs with payments, was launched in November 2014 [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian incubator Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) has partnered MusicTechSpace to launch the Music-Tech Innovation Challenge 2020, which will provide winning solutions with access to incubation and the possibility of funding. Launched in 2019 by Bez Idakula, MusicTechSpace is an innovation and community platform focused on the intersection of music and technology. It aims to find, identify [...] Read more ›
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Nigeria’s African Leadership Institute (ALI) is one of the fastest-growing massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the continent having reached 6,500 users since its launch in June. Founded by Oladokun Oluwasegun, a 23 year-old final year student of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, ALI helps learners acquire new skills by taking courses created by [...] Read more ›
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Egyptian prop-tech startup Isqan has raised a six-figure US dollar pre-seed funding round as it launches its new platform designed to revolutionise the country’s real estate sector. Founded last month by Ali Ezzat and Karim Hazem, Isqan is a listings platform for users looking to rent or buy properties in Egypt. The startup, which only [...] Read more ›
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