A new co-working office space, Work & Co, has opened in Cape Town, hosting a community of entrepreneurs, creatives, small…
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.
The Accra-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is open for applications from South Africa for the first time, while…
Moroccan mobile startup LIK, which gives users mobile phone credit based on a points system, has won the lightweight title…
The University of Nairobi’s innovation hub C4DLab has received KES1 million (US$9,900) from UN-Habitat to pilot a bike-sharing concept aimed…
The consulting arm of Kenyan innovation space iHub has launched a developer-on-demand service allowing local companies to tap into the…
Ride-sharing and car-pooling application uGoMyWay has been launched in Cape Town, allowing users to safely find drivers and passengers who…
Kenyan e-learning startup Eneza Education has partnered with Safaricom to roll out Shupavu 291, a revision study tool that works…
South African digital content startup Eduze has secured investment from TED in order to rollout its Wi-Fi-based technology CLOX, which…
Niche e-commerce is on the rise across Africa, and they don’t come more niche than Nigerian startup Gibadi, a B2B…
In this guest post, Sw7 co-founder Keith Jones tells us how African governments can promote socio-economic development on the continent…