The total capital invested in African startups more than doubled to US$26.9 million in 2014 compared to US$12 million in…
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.
South African startup TheRoomLink is reporting growth of between 1,000 and 2,000 users per month as it approaches the first…
Non-profit Lagos-based incubator iDEA has partnered MicroMentor in a bid to create a diaspora-focused community of volunteer mentors to assist…
Nigerian online hotel reservation service Hotels.ng has announced it has hit 6,000 listings on its service, and aims to hit…
The Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP) at the US State Department has partnered Girl Up, Intel, Microsoft and the…
South Africa-based mobile point of sale (PoS) service Nomanini has partnered Zambian airtime distributor StreetCred to facilitate the rollout of…
Ghanaian startup Kudobuzz, a reviewing and marketing solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has doubled revenues and seen 25…
Kenyan startups Tumakaro and SokoNect won cash investments of US$5,000 each after pitching to judges at the Mobile Impact Ventures…
The Egyptian government has announced a public-private partnership partnership (PPP) to launch the EGP10 billion (US$1.4 billion) Ayady for Investment…
With its innovative way of creating interoperability in Kenya’s multi-SIM environment, award-winning startup Chura is seeing strong growth in uptake…