German and Mauritian company Invnture will this year hold its first “investment safaris” in Southern Africa, aimed at connecting African…
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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.
Nigerian e-commerce startup Gloo.ng has launched a money-back guaranteed two-hour grocery delivery service, which it claims to be the first…
Nigerian startup TopCheck, a price comparison site for financial services launched in December 2014, has introduced insurance and personal loans…
Nigerian mobile payments startup Paga has partnered taxi hailing app Uber in the West African country to allow users to…
Speakers from the likes of 500 Startups, Ghana’s Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and the African Business Angel Network…
Cape Town-based high growth investment company Knife Capital has released figures from its second Grindstone accelerator programme, saying 12 scale-up…
A number of East African tech startups have been named as finalists for this year’s edition of the Sankalp Award,…
Cape Town-based social impact incubator RLabs has opened applications for the 2016 cycle of its Innovation, Incubation and Accelerator (InnovIA)…
“Kago was essentially the techie who hated teachers; I was the teacher who hated technology. Match made in heaven.” So…
Subsea cable operator SEACOM has announced it is to provide high speed internet connectivity to Ugandan tech incubator hubs Hive…