South African agri-tech startup swiftVEE has launched a new app – PrysWys – aimed at reducing input costs for farmers. swiftVee is an online livestock trading platform, and PrysWys leverages off its established customer base of approximately 100,000 commercial farmers. The app offers users a digital request form where farmers can list multiple products required [...] Read more ›
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German non-profit Impacc gGmbH, which supports local, green companies in Africa, has announced a call for application for its third venture cohort of investment in innovative entrepreneurs in Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania, which will get a smart equity investment to scale their businesses. Impacc is an international non-profit company registered in Germany that sees itself [...] Read more ›
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Egypt’s almentor, the leading online video learning platform in Arabic, has raised a US$10 million pre-Series C round of funding to accelerate its growth towards its goal of serving 10 million learners in the MENA region. Founded in 2016, almentor has worked with more than 950 prominent experts to create over 1,000 online courses for [...] Read more ›
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Social commerce has taken the African commercial landscape by storm recently, offering an easy and accessible way for consumers to purchase goods and services through social media platforms. One company at the frontlines of this is Peppa. Peppa is a social commerce platform making buying and selling on social media safer through a payment app [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Pocketfood has launched a “digital cafeteria” that offers corporate businesses and busy professionals individualised food selections. Founded in August, Pocketfood is a “kitchen as a service” tool that offers AI-supported, user-specific healthy meals made by ghost kitchens and delivered to the user’s workspace or doorstep. “The model is a food subscription where the [...] Read more ›
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The Green Entrepreneurship Team at adelphi is now accepting applications for the Green Entrepreneurship Awards 2023. A collaboration between SEED and the Circular Economy Catalyst, this year’s awards is broken into two – the Climate Adaptation Awards by SEED, focusing on Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia; and the Circular Economy Awards by Circular Economy Catalyst for [...] Read more ›
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Nigeria’s Jand2Gidi is helping to take the guesswork out of logistics for global brands who wish to deliver lifestyle goods to Africa through the use of shipping APIs that power hassle-free, trackable and affordable importation and last mile delivery services. Having offered importation and last mile delivery services to the Nigerian B2C market since 2013, [...] Read more ›
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Cameroonian startup Prepdia, which is helping learners improve their outcomes by reliably connecting them with professional tutors for in-person and online lessons, has expanded to Gabon after seeing impressive growth in its home market. Founded in 2019, Prepdia helps users quickly and efficiently connect with a vetted, reliable tutor in their local area. So far [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian fintech startup Pandascrow has launched a payments solutions platform built on escrow technology to help African businesses from new startups to market leaders in the commerce industry and beyond – grow. Pandascrow was born out of painful experiences of CEO Precious Tom and then several other members of the core team, as far back [...] Read more ›
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MENA-focused seed investor Flat6Labs has announced the launch of a new US$95 million fund to nurture the growth and development of early-stage tech startups on the African continent. Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, running a host of startup programmes and active in Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Jordan, [...] Read more ›
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)-based energy company Nuru is on track to build 13.7MWp of isolated solar-hybrid grids by mid-2024 after securing an initial US$1.5 million from investors in a convertible note round ahead of the close of its Series B funding round. Founded in 2020, Nuru deploys and operates renewable energy powered metrogrids [...] Read more ›
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Tanzanian music streaming startup Jibu has launched a differentiated offering it claims gives a larger chunk of revenues to independent artists as opposed to labels and distributors. Launched in December of last year by Godfrey Kilimwomeshi, Jibu Music aims to provide independent music artists and labels with affordable and equal access to all digital music [...] Read more ›
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South African company Naspers has closed its locally-focused venture capital fund Naspers Foundry, citing the “global investment environment” as the reason. Naspers announced the launch of its ZAR1.4 billion (then worth US$96 million, now US$76.8 million) Foundry fund, an investment vehicle aiming to boost South Africa’s tech ecosystem by investing in and supporting high-potential tech [...] Read more ›
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Fifteen startups from across the continent have been selected for the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders Africa Programme. An extension of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme established in 2017, the female-focused accelerator aims to empower and support women founders on the continent by providing resources and opportunities for them to scale. [...] Read more ›
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South African ed-tech incubator Injini has partnered the Mastercard Foundation to launch the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship Programme, which offers selected companies access to funding and other types of support. Founded in 2017, Injini, which is a member of the UVU Africa Group, is a registered non-profit company that exists for the sole purpose of [...] Read more ›
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The Zimbabwe-based E-Livestock Global, which uses hardware and software to generate vital data on the lives of livestock, plans to move into a host of new markets in the coming months and years off the back of swift uptake. Founded in 2019 Chris Light and Max Makuvise along with founding board member Melissa Enge, and [...] Read more ›
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Nigerian startup Ruubby has launched a platform that actively encourages users to build their credit scores while shopping for their favourite items online. More than 85 per cent of Africans do not have access to credit or other financial products, largely because banks and financial institutions do not have enough data to determine eligibility. The [...] Read more ›
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UCT GSB Solution Space and ayoba have opened applications for the latest edition of the e-Track programme, aimed at supporting startups from across the continent. Run by UCT GSB Solution Space – a specialised centre of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business – the e-Track programme is an early-stage venture acceleration and [...] Read more ›
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Husband and wife John and Natalie White are co-founders of Birda, an app they say will revolutionise birdwatching across South Africa. John hails from Durban in the garden province of KwaZulu-Natal, the son of a British father and Afrikaans mother, and has spent a childhood and more in the bush. His passion is wildlife, and [...] Read more ›
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South African startup Gradlinc has launched a bespoke career development platform that provides a national database to connect graduates and employers. Developed by the Innovation and Commercialisation unit at Stellenbosch University, and launched in October 2022, Gradlinc offers various opportunities, from part-time and holiday jobs for any student to bursaries, internships, and full-time employment opportunities [...] Read more ›
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