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South African startup brings the African Safari experience to the world
South African startup ‘Africam’ is a media company that live streams HD footage from waterholes at various locations across Africa. The free streams are aimed at connecting people from around the world to African wildlife and create an online community…
Farmcrowdy closes $1 million additional seed funding
Nigeria’s digital agriculture platform, Farmcrowdy announced that it has closed on additional seed funding of $1 million. This follows on from the company’s initial investments of $1 million in 2017. International investors Cox Enterprises and Techstars, along with local investor…
Launchpad Accelerator Africa Class 3 starts in April
Google has announced the third Launchpad Accelerator Africa class which starts on 1 April 2019, involves 11 startups from six African countries – Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Out of the 12 startups, 6 have female co-founders…
South African start-up named Best Digital Company
Wyzetalk, an employee engagement company that has built its own patented mobile, USSD and app technology solution, enabling businesses to connect and communicate effectively and efficiently with their workforces including non-desk workers, has been named Best Digital Company at this…
Rwandan entrepreneurs benefit from Alibaba training programme
Alibaba Business School, Alibaba Group’s university, last week hosted 30 Rwanda-based entrepreneurs at the company’s global headquarter in Hanghzou to learn from Alibaba’s experience and the tools needed to run successful business in the digital era. This was the first…
Big names behind SiSebenza bringing change to South Africa economy
SiSebenza, the new South African business that is driving social and economic change in South Africa, is already disrupting the local market through its work with global collaborative workspace provider WeWork. SiSebenza is supporting WeWork’s drive to enter the African…
Cortex Logic CEO awarded AI Leader Of The Year
South African based Artificial Intelligence Software & Solutions veteran and founder of Cortex Logic, awarded premium accolade at Africa’s Tech Week event, underlying a life dedicated to AI and Data Science Innovation. Dr Ludik is an African based smart technology…
20 African startups enter World Bank Group tech acceleration program
Twenty Francophone African tech startups will participate in the L’Afrique Excelle residency in Mali, a full-week boot camp set to kick off the Francophone edition of the World Bank Group’s XL Africa, tech start-up accelerator. From 24 to 30 March,…
New venture firm focused on impact fintech
The Financial Inclusion Initiative at Omidyar Network announced it has spun off to launch Flourish, a new venture firm focused on backing entrepreneurs whose innovations are helping people across the globe to capture economic opportunity and achieve financial health. The…
Nigeria: OneFi secures $5 mln debt facility
One Finance Limited has announced that it has secured a $5 million debt facility for its consumer-facing platform, Paylater. The facility comes from New York and Nairobi-based Lendable, a technology-enabled funding provider to African consumer and SME lenders. The debt…
Visa Everywhere Initiative celebrates women entrepreneurs
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Visa has announced the launch of the first Visa Everywhere Initiative: Women’s Global Edition. The global program invites women entrepreneurs from around the world to tackle FinTech and Social Impact challenges for a chance…
Fundanii, Google and SAP bring digital storytelling to life
Fundanii is a digital learning outreach program that was established by Sinovuyo Apleni and Luthando Gubevu in 2016. Based near East London in South Africa’s second-most populous township, Mdantsane. The company aims to educate pupils in surrounding schools in computer…
Kenyan startups win Africa Business Challenge
Over 20 innovators from Kenya joined 20 contemporaries from Basque to take part in the Africa Basque Challenge (ABC) in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The challenge was to find social and technical solutions to help bridge the urban-rural divide in…
Boosting scarce data science skills in SA with top 20 fintech ideas
South African businesses and startups are aware of the increasing importance of using data effectively, but the demand for data science skills exceeds supply. Explore, a joint initiative launched by The Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) and Rand Merchant Investments…
Aerobotics expands Series A Funding Round to $4 Million
On Wednesday, 27 February 2019, Aerobotics announced that it expanded its Series funding round from $2 million to $4 million. The funding round expansion came through a signed deal with Paper Plane Ventures and brings Aerobotics total funding to $4.6…
Need branding help? Look to the Sisonke Design Sprint
Johannesburg packaging design agency, Stratcom Branding, has announced the opening date for applications for the Sisonke Design Sprint– a bi-annual social responsibility initiative which gives two 100 percent black-owned SMME’s, a pro-bono packaging design every year. This year, they also challenge…
