Fifty-six African startups, investors and other ecosystem stakeholders have been named regional winners of the East, North, Southern and West…
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.
Baby steps have been taken towards greater gender diversity within the African tech startup ecosystem, but much more needs to…
Nigerian startup Intron Health, which provides clinical speech recognition for over 200 accents spoken in developing countries, starting in Africa,…
Ten scale-ups from Africa and the Middle East have been selected to take part in the inaugural “Accelerate with Djembe”…
African tech startups raised just US$530 million in the first six months of 2024, down by 56 per cent on…
South Africa’s LULA, an enterprise ride-sharing platform, has announced its acquisition of the UK-based Zeelo’s operations in South Africa, a…
Shell Egypt has relaunched its Intilaaqah enterprise development programme in partnership with Flat6Labs, aimed at supporting more than 1,000 young…
Lavanya Anand is senior investment manager at AfricInvest, one of the most established private equity and venture capital investors on…
Egyptian fintech startup Banknbox has partnered with Jordanian payments provider CSC Jordan to drive financial inclusion and offer joint advanced…
Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa has launched the second edition of the Young Innovators Programme in collaboration with the Ministry…