With access to finance cited as a major barrier to development by small business owners across Africa, Ghanaian startup Bloom…
Month: August 2018
More than 60 key players in the Senegalese innovation ecosystem came together last month to draft a startup act at…
Applications have opened for South African female entrepreneur challenge #0to6matters, a collaboration between Innovation Edge and The Startup Hatchery. The…
Nigeria’s Passion Incubator has launched StartUp SouthWest, a regionally-focused incubation programme designed to train and support tech startups. StartUp SouthWest…
The Venture Lab accelerator at the American University in Cairo has partnered banking software company Temenos to provide the lab’s…
The 10 finalists of the Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion have been chosen, standing the chance to progress…
Entrepreneurs and small businesses have long been regarded as the engines that power the global economy, but the thing that…
Eleven startups have been named finalists of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2018, which offers cash prizes and the chance to…
Nigerian e-commerce startup WaraCake has announced it is now active in 23 states, and has also launched a new food…
More than 120 young South African women have graduated from a Mastercard-funded initiative that empowers women to pursue entrepreneurial ventures…