Senegal-based solar startup Oolu has raised funding from a number of investors, including US accelerator programme Y Combinator, to begin…
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With unemployment rife across many African countries, an increasing number of tech-savvy entrepreneurs are taking matters into their own hands,…
The money remittance industry sees over US$34 billion sent to sub-Saharan Africa each year, accounting for an average of 5…
In an exclusive three part guest post series written for Disrupt Africa, David B. McGinty, team leader of the Human…
As it prepares to launch in Nairobi and Harare in the coming months, Nigerian startup Truppr can boast of some…
Kenya is the clear hub for impact investing in East Africa, accounting to more than half the impact capital deployed…
Road travel app MyQ, which earlier this week won the Nigerian leg of the Seedstars World competition to win a…
The predominant approach to low-income communities across Africa of making charity donations of cash and equipment is fundamentally misdirected, and…
24 year old Peris Bosire grew up in a small, impoverished farming community in rural Kenya. Almost the whole community…
Peer-selection by accelerator participants is the best model for making investments, because it leverages the industry expertise of the participants…