Android app Chatpages has launched with an initial focus on South Africa, offering small and medium enterprises (SMEs) an affordable…
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.
It’s kind of like Uber, but it also kind of isn’t. And it’s in Ethiopia. Launched in December 2014 as…
Village Capital has partnered makers organisation Creativity Group to hold its second African hardware accelerator programme in Accra, Ghana, which…
Kenyan hardware and connectivity startup BRCK has raised US$3 million in funding from investors including Jean and Steve Case, Jim…
The launch of movie-streaming service Netflix across Africa has “zero impact” on Nigerian startup iROKO, according to the latter’s chief…
South African startup Custos Media Technologies, which employs bitcoin bounties as a means of cracking down on piracy of various…
Back in June, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) imposed a raft of new foreign exchange controls, denying importers access…
So the dust has settled on 2015, a stellar year in the development of the African tech startup sector. The…
Kenya’s @iLabAfrica, the research centre located at Nairobi’s Strathmore University, has partnered local IT solutions firm Copy Cat to collaborate…
Venture capital (VC) firm Grovest is looking to raise ZAR200 million (US$12.8 million) to invest in highly scalable, post-revenue South…