Cape Town-based publishing startup Paperight, which has won a host of international awards and is funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation,…
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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 Luvuyo Rani, co-founder of Silulo Ulutho Technologies, has been named a 2014 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of…
Property platform Lamudi has revamped its website to offer a more intuitive design, streamlining the online house-hunting process for users…
Tanzanian company Juabar, which designs and builds solar charging kiosks before leasing them to a network of entrepreneurs who use…
The D-Prize competition, which will award selected social entrepreneurs with US$20,000 to launch a pilot of a programme that could…
The fourth and final leg of the AMPION Venture Bus has begun in Tunisia next week, with the trip’s special…
Three teams from Giza, Egypt and one from Harare, Zimbabwe were named finalists in various categories of the Global Startup…
Nigerian startup Foodstantly, one of the 40 startups that pitched at the DEMO Africa conference in Lagos in September, is…
Social media marketing firm InsideMan and self-help web building tool VIGO have partnered to address Cape Town’s unemployment issues by…
South African venture capital (VC) firm Silvertree Capital is planning to make more investments next year after a relatively quiet…