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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... -
Google’s Launchpad Accelerator Class 2 announces Eleven African Startups in Lagos, Nigeria after a 3-month program to build the digital ecosystem in their countries. The second class of startups to go through Google’s Launchpad Accelerator Africa program graduated today in Lagos after a 3-month program. The 11 startups comprising Launchpad... -
A ride-hailing service, Vaya launched by Cassava Smartech, an Econet Wireless company will be available to commuters in the country’s capital, Harare from 2019. Zimbabwe now has an app based ride-hailing service which will first be available in the capital, Harare. Known as Vaya Lift, the service has been... -
Ghanaian agritech startup CowTribe has secured a $300, 000 investment from the US-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. The startup made the announcement earlier today in a post on Twitter. In a subsequent phone call with Ventureburn, CowTribe co-founder and CEO Awin Peter (pictured above, second from right) said the investment was in the... -
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... -
A South African cab-hailing app, uMeshesha wants to be both a ride-hailing service during peak periods and delivery service.... -
Opinion-Ed By Sandiso Sibisi, UNDP Open Innovation Africa Lead - Why Youth employment is key to unlocking Africa’s economic growth... -
For fans of comics, superheroes, and heroines, there’s a new badass heroine in town called Karmzah. Karmzah, a comic that portrays a person with cerebral palsy as a heroine was launched on Saturday, 6th October to coincide with the celebration of World CP Day worldwide. The Comic to be made... -
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...
