South African agri-tech startup Aerobotics has released a new yield management platform, offering growers tools to measure, manage and protect…
Author: Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson
Passionate about the vibrant tech startups scene in Africa, Tom can usually be found sniffing out the continent's most exciting new companies and entrepreneurs, funding rounds and any other developments within the growing ecosystem.
South African ed-tech startup Vambo Academy is enabling African language learning, translation services and access to indigenous knowledge via its…
Hybrid hardware-software company Qwili, based in Cape Town, has raised US$1.2 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to help…
Applications are now open for the second year of the incubator programme run by DMZm which aims to support early-stage…
Nigerian startup Woodshare.ng hopes to scale its furniture e-commerce platform across Africa once it has secured funding, having seen strong…
Egyptian startup Cartona, a B2B platform connecting retailers to manufacturers and wholesalers, has closed a US$12 million Series A funding…
Nigerian logistics startup Kwik has launched Kwikstore, an easy-to-use e-Commerce solution to help African merchants sell online from their smartphone.…
The Switzerland-based Seedstars has launched its second emerging market seed stage fund with a first close of US$20 million. Since…
Nigeria’s Hashgreed, an NFT marketplace, multipurpose NFT and super dapp platform under the Krosscoin Ecosystem, has recently raised more than…
The United Nations Population Fund and AfriLabs have launched an incubation programme aimed at supporting ideas tackling female genital mutilation…