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Leading technology and startups blog; Ventureburn has released its 2018 Ventureburn Tech Startup Survey which took a look at 153 South African startups. Ventureburn has released its 2018 Ventureburn Tech Startup Survey powered by Telkom Futuremakers which took a look at 153 South African startups to gauge the state of... -
Ghanaian Agritech company; Farmerline and five others have won the USAID’s Fall Army Worm Tech Prize Frontier Innovation Award. The U.S. Agency for International Development, Land O’Lakes International Development, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research announced the six winners of the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize at... -
First-ever re:publica Conference heads to Accra, Ghana in partnership with BMZ and Hub Accra to celebrate Africa’s rising Tech & Innovation scene. re:publica Conference – Europe’s largest gathering of digital nomads, tech-entrepreneurs, bloggers, and change activists will be heading to Accra, Ghana from December 14 – 15 under the theme: “Next Level“. Together... -
Uganda’s co-working space; Hive Colab to host payment startup Flutterwave to discuss their flagship product; rave to Startup Founders San Francisco and Nigerian based online payment technology solutions firm; Flutterwave in partnership with Uganda’s co-working space; Hive Colab will on Friday 2nd, November 2018 hold a meet and discuss... -
Ghana has made progress to improve the ease of doing business, ranked 114 among 190 economies in the ease of doing business according to the World Bank Group 2019 Doing Business Report. Ghana has made progress to improve the ease of doing business, according to the World Bank Group... -
The NimCure app is a digital patient care tool to promote adherence to treatment by TB patients in Nigeria developed by NIMR in partnership with CcHub. The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in partnership with Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) has launched a medical trial for NimCure App – a... -
Airbus BizLab launches a call for African startups to rethink how their technology could interact with Aerospace. Airbus announced the launch of its second edition of #Africa4Future, a joint accelerator program between Airbus’ global aerospace accelerator BizLab and Make-IT in Africa, a programme by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale... -
Amazon plans to build new data centers in Cape Town, South Africa to speed up cloud services and reducing costs for Amazon’s local corporate clients. U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon has announced plans to construct new data centers in South Africa, establishing the company’s first infrastructure region in Africa. The data... -
Nigerian ISP startup Tizeti and its consumer-facing brand, Wifi.com.ng has closed a Series A round of $3M, led by 4DX Ventures. This follows on from the company’s Seed investment of $2.1M reported in 2017, with this round included existing investors Y Combinator Continuity, Lynett Capital, Social Capital, Western Technology Investment, Friále, and Golden Palm Investments. Tizeti will use this investment to expand...
