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AfriLabs, a network organization of innovation centres across 47 African countries has added 27 new members to its network which brings the total number of members to 225....
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Tanzania's Kilimo Fresh Foods Africa Limited has been announced as the overall winner of the MEST Africa Challenge 2020. They walk away with an investment totalling $50,000 and will be welcomed into one of MEST’s Hubs for a year of support and incubation. Kilimo Fresh is a company from Tanzania...
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Gozem, the ride-hailing app offering transportation services via motorcycles, tricycles and cars in West and Central Africa, has today taken one step further towards becoming Africa’s all-inclusive super app. With the launch of e-commerce delivery services, users in Lome and Cotonou can not only use Gozem to move around...
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uLesson is the first of its kind in Africa. An organisation that leverages best in class teachers, media, and technology to create high-quality, affordable and accessible education for African students. We have built a platform that helps students be the very best they can be - an app that...
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Thin Lei Win and Katy Migiro report on how African innovators are keeping economies hit by Covid-19 afloat with their ideas and inventions for the Reuters. ...
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Many financial services claim to adopt an omni-channel approach but more often than not, the reality is that, whether the user is being onboarded via the website, mobile app, USSD or in-person (agent /banking hall), these channels are designed with inbuilt flaws, that needs constant optimization....
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More than 200 start-up companies from across some 28 countries in Africa applied for a place on the Africa4Future initiative run by Airbus. Now in its third season, #Africa4Future saw 10 start-ups originating from Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania, all of which will have the...
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Nigerian fintech platform Okra has secured a $1mn pre-seed fundraise from TLcom Capital, strengthening its push to build the infrastructure for Africa’s next wave of fintech innovation. The platform is building the first API in Africa to retrieve real-time financial data from a bank account to any web or...
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Venture funding in the first quarter of the year for African startups reached $350 million according to data from Briter Bridges, a tech ecosystem data consultancy. South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt topped the funding charts. These 4 countries also received the largest share of funding in the whole...
AfriLabs, a network organization of innovation centres across 47 African countries has added 27 new members to its network which brings the total number of members to 225....
Tanzania's Kilimo Fresh Foods Africa Limited has been announced as the overall winner of the MEST Africa Challenge 2020. They walk away with an investment totalling $50,000 and will be welcomed into one of MEST’s Hubs for a year of support and incubation. Kilimo Fresh is a company from Tanzania...
Gozem, the ride-hailing app offering transportation services via motorcycles, tricycles and cars in West and Central Africa, has today taken one step further towards becoming Africa’s all-inclusive super app. With the launch of e-commerce delivery services, users in Lome and Cotonou can not only use Gozem to move around...
uLesson is the first of its kind in Africa. An organisation that leverages best in class teachers, media, and technology to create high-quality, affordable and accessible education for African students. We have built a platform that helps students be the very best they can be - an app that...
Thin Lei Win and Katy Migiro report on how African innovators are keeping economies hit by Covid-19 afloat with their ideas and inventions for the Reuters. ...
Many financial services claim to adopt an omni-channel approach but more often than not, the reality is that, whether the user is being onboarded via the website, mobile app, USSD or in-person (agent /banking hall), these channels are designed with inbuilt flaws, that needs constant optimization....
More than 200 start-up companies from across some 28 countries in Africa applied for a place on the Africa4Future initiative run by Airbus. Now in its third season, #Africa4Future saw 10 start-ups originating from Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania, all of which will have the...
Nigerian fintech platform Okra has secured a $1mn pre-seed fundraise from TLcom Capital, strengthening its push to build the infrastructure for Africa’s next wave of fintech innovation. The platform is building the first API in Africa to retrieve real-time financial data from a bank account to any web or...
Venture funding in the first quarter of the year for African startups reached $350 million according to data from Briter Bridges, a tech ecosystem data consultancy. South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Egypt topped the funding charts. These 4 countries also received the largest share of funding in the whole...