Four teams will take part in the Negawatt Demo Day in Nairobi on Saturday, May 30, during which two teams…
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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.
East African pay-as-you-go energy provider for off-grid customers M-KOPA Solar has announced it has powered up 200,000 homes in the…
South African accelerator Ignitor is accepting applications for two zero-equity accelerator programmes, planning to teach startups the lean mentality through…
Event booking and management system Moovi was named the winner of the Mozambique leg of the global Seedstars World pitching…
The same rules apply to e-commerce businesses as to the likes of banking, telecommunications and street trading, and startups are…
A group of international investors have partnered to establish the US$30 million investment company Business Partners International East Africa (BPI…
Nigerian online hotel booking platform Hotels.ng has raised a US$1.2 million funding round from Omidyar Network and EchoVC, which will…
StartUpWestAfrica.org has gone live with the aim of crowdmapping startups and incubators in Lagos, Accra, Abidjan and Dakar, stressing the…
In 1986, then Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi launched the Nyayo Car project, an ambitious move aimed at creating a…
The @iBizAfrica incubator at Nairobi’s Strathmore University will on July 10-12 host a Startup Weekend event dedicated to finding solutions…