South African startup The Social Vibe (TSV), a marketing platform for showcasing innovation through banner advertising, has unveiled the second…
Month: June 2015
East African mobile startups pitching competition PIVOT East has announced the judges that will whittle the 50 semi-finalist startups down…
Ugandan startup MMINDZS has been awarded a US$100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop the…
Tanzanian classifieds platform Kupatana has raised funding from Frontier Digital Ventures to assist the startup’s growth in Uganda, Rwanda and…
Peter Scott is co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of BURN Manufacturing, which has built East Africa’s largest cooking stove…
Payday lending startup Shield Finance came out on top against five other teams at the DEMO Africa pre-pitch event held…
When South African stock exchange personal assistant platform Stock Shop went live a year ago it was a very different…
South African startup iGrow Academy has raised funding from an educational institution in the country in order to expand marketing…
African startups BRCK, Lumkani, SokoText and OkHi are among the 46 finalists of Design to Improve Life’s global INDEX design…
CauseTech, a new private sector initiative aimed at crowdsourcing breakthrough ideas, products and emerging technologies to support the work of…