Ghanaian Startup: Dropifi Becomes First African Startup To Join #500Strong Program.
Dropifi, a smart widget that allows companies to better analyze incoming “contact us” messages, announced today that they’ve joined the 6th batch of companies to join 500 Startups Accelerator Program. Dropifi seeks to clear out the era of long and scary website “contact us” forms that deny businesses of valuable feedback and leads, but will still deliver business critical insights and a spam-free cus...
Cloud computing enabling Entrepreneurship in Africa
From the Google Developer Blog: Dave Humby, CTO of Nomanini - a startup based in South Africa which provides a platform to sell prepaid products such as airtime, electricity and insurance electronically is giving local South African youths an opportunity to enter into business with their devices. Nomanini uses Google App Engine to support the back-end system for their network of point of sale terminals across S...
30 Brilliant African Tech Startups To Watch
From the Ventureburn.com blog: 30 African startups were profiled. Their selections were based on the startup coming from an African root and secondly, it been just brilliant. From Transport apps: TaxiRank - South Africa Down in Cape Town, Taxi Rank makes it easy for the city’s 4-million citizens to catch a cab. Simply enter your pick-up and drop-off destinations to compare estimated quotes from multiple cab co...
StartMe - A South African Crowdfunding Site
On cp-Africa South Africa has for a long time been a frontrunner in the Sub-Saharan Africa startup scene, pioneering business models and start-ups. StartMe a crowd-funding platform for South African Entrepreneurs and Investors. Founded in 2011, StartMe is the next generation of business investment. It is a new way to fund entrepreneurs, artists, schools and community projects in South Africa by crowd-fundin...
Day 1: Maker Faire Africa Lagos - Entrepreneur Spotlight - Nneamaka Nwosisi
African fabrics are been used in designing fashion accessories and more these days. Not only in Ghana is this creativity and innovation available. At Maker Faire Africa Lagos event, young and elegant Nneamaka Nwosisi showcased fashion accessory made with locally sourced African fabrics/prints. According to Nneamaka, she started her fashion line Mak Nisy Collections in June 2011 after returning from the UK to ...
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