Global accelerator Startupbootcamp has selected 10 startups for its first African programme, which kicks off in Cape Town on September…
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.
Ugandan startup Qwicart is bidding to change the way people shop for groceries with a mobile app that allows people…
South African e-health startup the hearX Group has smashed its fundraising target after launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise…
The British Embassy in Cairo has partnered the Flat6Labs accelerator to host a hackathon for social entrepreneurs aimed at finding…
Digital loans startup Numida has been named winner of the Ugandan leg of global seed-stage startup competition Seedstars World, and…
The Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and South African e-learning company GetSmarter have launched a new online…
“At FasterCapital, we believe that there is a great unexplored potential in the market that most incubators and accelerators ignore…
Nigerian agri-tech startup Releaf has been selected for the Silicon Valley-based accelerator Y Combinator, bagging itself US$120,000 in funding as…
African tech startups supported by any of the various mLabs set up across the continent by infoDev has a survival…
It is clear that technology is changing the landscape of financial services in rural Africa, write Howard Miller, an associate…