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Twelves startups from Ghana and Nigeria selected for the 2019 Facebook Accelerator in Lagos, Nigeria. Facebook Accelerator, Nigeria in partnership with Co-Creation Hub has commenced season two of its program aimed at supporting and empowering students and entrepreneurs to build locally relevant solutions using advanced technology. This year, the... -
Andela and Github are hosting a hackathon in Nigeria on October 26th and 27th to showcase the talent and work of the Nigerian developer community. Andela – the African company that is solving the technical talent shortage by building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s most talented software engineers and... -
Nigerian fintech startup Kuda — a digital-only retail bank has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Haresh Aswani. Kuda, Nigeria’s first digital-only bank with a standalone license, has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Haresh Aswani, as reported on Wednesday, Sept 11, 2019. Ragnar Meitern and... -
Guest post by Charles Onyango-Obbo, highlighting innovative projects tackling entrenched gender inequality among African women entrepreneurs. As ride-hailing apps proliferate the globe, An Nisa Taxi in Kenya is one of the standouts in Africa. Developed by 33-year-old Mehnaz Sarwar, An Nisa is run by women and serves female passengers... -
Tech-enabled logistics platform which connects the supply of trucks with the demand of transport services by freight/cargo owners, Kobo360 has officially launched operations in Ghana. One of the fastest growing technology companies in Africa focused on the logistics/ supply chain framework, Kobo360 has officially widened its operations to Ghana... -
Kobo360 is a tech-enabled logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. They just announced a plans expansion into Accra, Ghana, and Nairobi, Kenya.... -
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange today, per SEC documents and confirmation from CEO Sacha Poignonnec to TechCrunch.... -
The design lab is an unprecedented next step in Africa’s growing tech sector, and is set to become a leading creative space where it’s multidisciplinary team of product designers and engineers will collaborate with scientists and stakeholders globally, to explore the application of emerging technologies that will solve Africa’s... -
African technology startups smashed funding records in 2018 as 210 startups secured US$334.5 million worth of investment, according to Disrupt Africa. ...
