Standard Bank and Thinkroom have announced the launch of the Standard Bank Development Programme, an enterprise development initiative aimed at…
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 startup InfiniteUp has launched Doer, a web app that provides a two-sided marketplace for “JobGivers” and “Doers”. Using Doer,…
Thought leaders persistently predict an increase in deal volume and deal values on the African continent, and yet the pace…
Visa has launched a new Africa Fintech Accelerator programme to help enable African startups through expertise, connections, technology, and investment…
Rwandan insurtech startup Eden Care, which offers affordable, accessible and personalised health coverage to businesses and their employees, is the…
The Africa Business Angels Network (ABAN), a pan-African association of angel investors, and Rwanda Finance Ltd (RFL), a company dedicated…
The Anglo American Foundation (AAF) has partnered with Grindstone, an accelerator renowned for engineering high-growth entrepreneurship, to launch a South…
Zambia’s Union54, a leading provider of innovative digital financial solutions, has partnered Mastercard to launch social commerce platform ChitChat. A…
Twenty Ghanaian startups have graduated from the UNICEF StartUp Lab Accelerator, securing GHS500,000 (US$45,000) investment support. Led by UNICEF in…
South Africa’s InfoDocs provides compliance and CIPC-related services to over 30,000 companies – and over 70,000 directors and members -…