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Submissions Open For Meet The Farmers Innov8Agric Challenge

Submissions for the 2018 Meet The Farmers Conference Innov8Agric Challenge are now open. The submission is open for Kenyan and other African...

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Nigerian FinTech Startup Mines Secures $13M to Grow Digital Credit Platform

Mines, a fintech startup re-inventing credit in emerging markets, has closed a Series A round of $13M led by The Rise Fund,...

Honeywell Group Launches Itanna Accelerator in Lagos

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Honeywell Group Launches Itanna Accelerator in Lagos

Honeywell Group has officially launched its new accelerator and investment vehicle, Itanna in Lagos. Tomi Otudeko, Head, Innovation and Sustainability for Honeywell Group, and Director...

Artificial Intelligence leaders to gather at AI Expo in Cape Town

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Artificial Intelligence leaders to gather at AI Expo in Cape Town

Taking place on 9-11 September 2018, Century City Conference Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, AI Expo Africa 2018 is focusing on real...

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Nigerian B2B Venture Builder Zone Tech Park Launches in Lagos

Zone Tech Park, a new venture builder for start-ups in Nigeria, has officially opened for business and is already turning great ideas into...

Sokowatch Closes $2 Million Seed To Modernize African Informal Retail

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Sokowatch Closes $2 Million Seed Round To Modernize African Informal Retail

Sokowatch a B2B e-commerce platform connecting African retail stores with multinational companies such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble, announced today the...

Gebeya has announced that it has acquired CODERS4AFRICA Inc. (C4A) to further accelerate its growth and fuel its developer talent pool into its marketplace.

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East Africa

Gebeya acquires Coders4Africa to expand African developer base

Gebeya has announced that it has acquired CODERS4AFRICA Inc. (C4A) to further accelerate its growth and fuel its developer talent pool into its marketplace. ...

Andela Launches Pan-African Technology Hub In Kigali for Software Developers Across the Continent

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Andela Launches Pan-African Technology Hub In Kigali

Andela has today announced the launch of a pan-African technology hub in its fourth African market: Kigali, Rwanda in partnership with the Government...

Google's Loon partners with Telkom to deliver internet via balloons in Kenya

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Google’s Loon partners with Telkom to deliver internet via balloons in Kenya

Telkom and Google Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet have announced the signing of agreement to pilot an innovative new 4G/LTE access network...

Applications Closing For Village Capital Programme

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Innovation

Applications Closing For Village Capital Programme

Incubators, accelerators and seed funds in sub-Saharan Africa are encouraged to apply by July 6 for VilCap Communities Africa, a programme to...

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Entries Open For The AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2018

Entries are now open for the fourth annual AppsAfrica Innovation Awards which celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa, showcasing...

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Innovation

Piggybank.ng Secures $1.1M Seed Funding

Nigeria’s Piggybank.ng, an online and mobile app savings platform targeted at African Millennials, today announces that it has closed on Seed Funding...

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Innovation

Facebook Launches NG_Hub in Lagos – its First Hub Space in Africa

Facebook today unveiled NG Hub in Lagos, Nigeria – its first flagship community hub space in Africa, in partnership with CcHub. In...

Building An Inclusive Technology Ecosystem In Africa

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Innovation

Building An Inclusive Technology Ecosystem In Africa

The building of a technology ecosystem in Africa must have an underlying purpose and, particularly given the macro-environmental fundamentals prevalent in Africa,...

Lagos Co-creation Hub Announces Latest Incubation Cohort

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Innovation

Co-creation Hub Nigeria announces latest incubation cohort

Following a search for ambitious Nigerian tech solutions, Co-Creation Hub Nigeria has announced a new cohort for their 2018 Incubation Program. CcHub...

The Underserved Market in Venture Capital: Women

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Innovation

The underserved market in venture capital: women

The entrepreneurial ecosystem is at various stages of development across emerging markets worldwide and especially Africa. However, there is one statistic common...

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Innovation

African agri-tech ecosystem grows 110% in last two years

The African agri-tech space is booming, with the number of startups operating in the market growing 110 per cent over the past...

Can Equity Crowdfunding Deliver For African Tech?

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Innovation

Can Equity Crowdfunding Deliver For African Tech?

There are numerous ways that African tech businesses can try to access funding, however equity crowdfunding has untapped potential. “Despite its slow...

Ecobank Launches 2nd African Fintech Challenge

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Apps

Ecobank Launches Second African Fintech Challenge

Ecobank, the leading pan-African banking group, is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter its Ecobank Fintech Challenge. Now in its second year,...