Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has received 75 applications for funding over the last four months under its recently launched Spark…
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Kenyan startups Umati Capital and Kyatabu have been named among the winners of the Citi Mobile Challenge, walking away with…
South African online rental marketplace Ekaya has expanded to cover Gauteng as well as the Western Cape, while also announcing…
Pan-African startup competition AMPION has announced it will run five Venture Bus tours on the continent this year, taking in…
Cape Town-based startup Sense Virtual is in the process of developing Africa’s first virtual reality (VR) science fiction film “Awakenings”,…
East African pay-as-you-go energy provider for off-grid customers M-KOPA Solar has announced it has powered up 200,000 homes in the…
Youth entrepreneurship organisations from six East African Commonwealth (EAC) countries have agreed to form an alliance, to be known as…
A group of international investors have partnered to establish the US$30 million investment company Business Partners International East Africa (BPI…
Nigerian online hotel booking platform Hotels.ng has raised a US$1.2 million funding round from Omidyar Network and EchoVC, which will…
StartUpWestAfrica.org has gone live with the aim of crowdmapping startups and incubators in Lagos, Accra, Abidjan and Dakar, stressing the…