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Publiseer to feature at Katapult Future Fest 2019
Nigerian digital content distribution company, Publiseer, is among the impact tech startups that were hand-picked to feature at Katapult Future Fest 2019, taking place in Oslo, Norway, from the 15th to 16th of May, 2019. Katapult Future Fest is a…
Vote for your favourite African creative in the DLA Online Pitch Competition
Public voting is now open until April 28 for the 30 African creatives selected to compete at the Digital Lab Africa (DLA) Online Pitch Competition. The DLA is a springboard and an incubation platform for African creatives in digital content.…
Nigeria’s Value Seeds tops Access to Seeds Index
A new study on seed companies operating in Western and Central Africa has identified Nigeria as a leading seed hub in Western and Central Africa. The Access to Seeds Index 2019 – Western and Central Africa ranked Value Seeds number…
Founders Factory Africa selects 5 fintech startups to scale across Africa
Founders Factory Africa (FFA) and Standard Bank have announced that they have selected and invested into the first five fintech startup businesses in Africa. Founders Factory Africa is a South African company operating across Africa delivering a corporate-backed accelerator and…
Centbee closes Series A round funding
South African-based Bitcoin company, Centbee, announced that it has closed its Series A round with entrepreneur Calvin Ayre, founder of Antigua-based investment firm, Ayre Ventures and CoinGeek. Ayre, who has invested $1 304 700,00 (R18.3 million), announced that, “Centbee has…
Vodacom Foundation equips female farmers with digital skills
Vodacom Foundation, in partnership with UN Women, introduced Female Farmers programme in 2018. The programme, which is focused at empowering smallholder female farmers within the country’s agriculture sector, has to date trained 350 small-scale female farmers in rural areas of…
Fintech startup to offer affordable healthcare solutions to medical schemes
Alignd, an all women-led fintech start-up, aims to bring alternative and affordable healthcare models to the South African market. With an intention to provide alternative, more patient-centred and value-led healthcare models to the country’s medical schemes, Alignd is the…
South Africa: Cisco launches Incubation hub for SMMEs in Durban
Cisco in partnership with Minister of Communications, Telecommunications and Postal Services, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams launched Cisco South Africa’s USD $143 600,00 state-of-the-art Incubation Hub in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. This is the second facility of its kind, built by the company, in South…
Nigeria’s digital content distribution platform invited to Young Africa Works Summit
Founders of Nigeria’s digital content distribution platform Publiseer, Chidi Nwaogu and Chika Nwaogu, have been invited by the Mastercard Foundation to participate in its Young Africa Works Summit, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa on October 17 and 18,…
SMMEs add their voice on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
In order to hone in on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and help prepare small businesses for the digital era, small businesses from across the country gathered at the second edition of the SMMEs in ICT Summit and Expo, which took…
Africa gets first user experience Lab
Nihilent, a global consulting and solutions integration company, official opened the first user experience (UX) lab in Africa. Located at Bryanston in South Africa, the lab caters to all type of businesses and verticals B2B and B2C for product/content validation,…
Harambee wins 2019 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Foundation has announced that Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator has received the 2019 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, this prestigious award recognises change agents whose innovations have had significant, proven impact on the…
Vox launches email archiving solution for SMEs
Vox, an integrated ICT and infrastructure provider, has launched an unlimited email archiving solution to provide organisations with a cost-effective and user-friendly way to protect their email data in the event of a disaster. “It has become far too commonplace…
The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative is officially open
The application process for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) is officially open to African entrepreneurs from all countries, sectors and age groups. The ANPI is a prize competition founded by the Jack Ma Foundation that will award US$10 million…
Oracle’s global startup program will support 500 startups in Ghana
The Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem and the Government of Ghana have announced the Ghana-Oracle Digital Enterprise Program, a new collaborative effort to support technology-enabled startups and entrepreneurs across Ghana. The Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem, Oracle’s program for entrepreneurs and innovators…
GESF2019: Tanzanian start-up announced as winner of Next Billion Ed-Tech Prize
Tanzanian start-up Ubongo, a localised educational media platform that reaches millions of families through accessible technologies, has won the ‘Next Billion’ Edtech Prize launched by The Varkey Foundation to recognise the most innovative technology destined to have a radical impact…
