South African venture capital (VC) firm Newtown Partners, formed by Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen to assist and invest in…
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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.
South African comparison site Click n Compare expanded to Nigeria and Kenya on the back of a successful year in…
The second in a series of Angel Investor Bootcamps organised by the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) has taken place…
PwC has announced the 20 finalists for its Vision to Reality awards in Africa, with the overall winner to attend…
The first Bitcoin Academy in Africa has been launched at the Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town, offering basic, intermediary and…
The Ghana-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced its latest cohort of entrepreneurs in training (EITs), which contains…
Applications have opened for the New Economy Accelerator (NEA) programme, aimed at assisting businesses in South Africa servicing the low…
m:lab East Africa has partnered technical computer security collective AfricaHackOn to launch a cybersecurity programme for Kenyan startups and entrepreneurs,…
South African newspaper the Sunday Times has partnered First National Bank (FNB) to launch Dragons’ Den-type contest Shark Tank in…
Two African fintech startups, Kenya’s SuperFluid and South Africa’s Creditable, are part of the first cohort of the DBS Accelerator…