South African startup Custos Media Technologies, which employs bitcoin bounties as a means of cracking down on piracy of various…
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Venture capital (VC) firm Grovest is looking to raise ZAR200 million (US$12.8 million) to invest in highly scalable, post-revenue South…
Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) is set to launch a US$100 million venture capital (VC) fund in 2016,…
The Tony Elumelu Foundation has opened applications for the second cycle of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), a US$100…
Nigerian e-commerce startup Jumia has appointed Juliet Anammah as its new chief executive officer (CEO) after former co-CEOs Jeremy Doutte…
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has through its US Global Development Lab provided Tanzanian solar startup Off…
United States (US)-based team communication app Slack has launched a US$80 million fund to support developers building apps that interact…
Nigerian incubator Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) has partnered Venture Garden Group, Omidyar Network and the Bank of Industry to launch the…
Kenyan startup OkHi, which is employing technology in a bid to solve problems with physical addressing, has raised US$750,000 in…
Kenyan startup Ongair, a web-based dashboard that enables businesses to engage with their customers on instant messaging platforms, has raised…