Ideas are great. Ideas change both the direction and the face of our world. They’re where new realities are made,…
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.
Egyptian early-stage investment network Cairo Angels has opened applications for its Bridge Rounds – Investor Breakfast event, which will take…
The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) is to extend its Angel Investor Masterclass series to Cairo and Lagos next week,…
Six startups have been named winners of the Attacq Retail Innovation Entrepreneurs Challenge, sharing seed funding of ZAR100,000 (US$7,000) as…
Kenyan agri-tech startup FarmDrive has partnered farming insurance firm ACRE Africa to utilise weather data for the provision of credit…
The Global Editors Network (GEN) has partnered Journalism.co.uk to launch a new edition of Startups For News (SFN), which is…
JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms and Blue Pencil Management Architects – trading as Blue Pencil – have launched a “boutique” business…
Five startups will share ZAR80,000 (US$6,000) and enter an incubation programme after being named the winners of the Nedbank Fintech…
Applications have opened for the Barclays Accelerator programme, powered by Techstars, a 13-week programme based in Cape Town aimed at…
Pan-African digital payments startup BitPesa has expanded its payment automation services in order to deliver faster, more cost-effective transactions between…