Kenyan bitcoin payments startup BitPesa has raised follow-on funding from a number of investors to take its total secured investment…
Month: August 2017
The World Bank has chosen the 20 startups that will take part in its XL Africa accelerator programme, which offers…
African fintech startups have been invited to apply for the PitchIt competition at the LendIt Europe conference in London in…
Startups have been invited to apply for the M4D Utilities Innovation Fund, supported by the UK Government and the Scaling…
Back in mid-2011, I landed in Kenya as a young, wet-behind-the-ears journalist not knowing what to expect and where it…
A number of African startups are among the finalists of the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge, which will award four grand…
Kenyan co-working space Nairobi Garage has announced the opening of its new state-of-the-art entrepreneurship centre, featuring three floors of specially…
Seven South African startups have been selected to take part in the #cocreate2ACCELERATE programme, which will see the building of…
South African developer recruitment platform OfferZen has achieved 500 companies hiring through its platform, and has launched a new billing…
Ugandan startup clinicPesa is employing its micro-savings platform to help users set aside dedicated healthcare funds to tackle the lack…