Applications are open for the 2015 edition of the Anzisha Prize, which seeks to reward young social entrepreneurs with prizes…
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.
Kenyan incubator the iHub has partnered Chase Bank in an arrangement that will see the two organisations collaborate on advancing…
Young female coders from the Khayelitsha area of Cape Town met Twitter vice president for engineering Nandini Ramani and other…
South African startup SmartPrac, which provides cloud-based electronic health record and practice management software, is plotting expansion to Namibia and…
Kenya’s CardPlanet and Egypt’s ElWafeyat were amongst the startups that pitched at the 500 Startups Demo Day in San Francisco,…
Johannesburg-based accelerator programme Seed Engine has merged with major European equivalent Startupbootcamp, with the partners now fundraising to host accelerator…
Most startups would be quite satisfied with profits of US$30,000 in only their third year of existence, and clients including…
Hotels.ng has announced it will sponsor the first hackathon in northern Nigeria, HackJos, aimed at encouraging developers to come up…
MergersAfrique, an online platform designed to allow buyers to find potential acquisitions in Africa and smooth the purchasing process, has…
BBC World Service and BBC Connected Studio are today holding a hackathon event in Nairobi, Kenya, in order to generate…