East African mobile startups pitching competition PIVOT East has announced the judges that will whittle the 50 semi-finalist startups down…
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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.
Tanzanian classifieds platform Kupatana has raised funding from Frontier Digital Ventures to assist the startup’s growth in Uganda, Rwanda and…
Peter Scott is co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of BURN Manufacturing, which has built East Africa’s largest cooking stove…
Payday lending startup Shield Finance came out on top against five other teams at the DEMO Africa pre-pitch event held…
When South African stock exchange personal assistant platform Stock Shop went live a year ago it was a very different…
South African startup iGrow Academy has raised funding from an educational institution in the country in order to expand marketing…
African startups BRCK, Lumkani, SokoText and OkHi are among the 46 finalists of Design to Improve Life’s global INDEX design…
CauseTech, a new private sector initiative aimed at crowdsourcing breakthrough ideas, products and emerging technologies to support the work of…
Nigerian startup SpacePointe, which develops products geared towards small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with a particular focus on retailers, is…
Western Cape startup support initiative Silicon Cape has announced the 11 individuals who will join Women Portfolio head Zimkhita Buwa…