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Seedstars applications open for African startups

Seedstars world looking to find best start-ups in South-Africa

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to South-Africa to find the best...

Aaron Fu managing partner from Nest VC shares how they have invested in start-ups from 52 countries across the world and are now looking to invest and grow African start-ups globally. Fu shares why Morocco is now a big opportunity on the radar of global investors and Nest VC’s plans for Africa.

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East Africa

Nest.VC helping to grow African start-ups globally

Nest.VC launched in Nairobi, Kenya last year bringing together a team of experienced entrepreneurs to help provide hands on mentorship and access...

Six key lessons on crowdfunding in Africa

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Start-Ups

Six key lessons on crowdfunding in Africa

In developing countries, the crowdfunding market is expected to reach $327 million this year—about 2 percent of the global total. Despite this...

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Ghana

MEST shares plans for 2016 including new venture fund for Africa

Accra-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has become a major entrepreneurial hub in Africa, training, supporting and incubating startups in Ghana,...

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Innovation

Building a better Africa one sticky note at a time

Work day and night for several months on a massive coding project for a blue-chip company, produce fantastically engineered code, only to...

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Events

Ghana: iSpace Foundation hosting Social Impact Week in Accra

The iSpace Foundation in collaboration with their partners at Making All Voices Count, Hivos, The Doen Foundation and Indigo Trust will host...

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Apps

WeChat to invest $3.4M in start-ups in Africa

WeChat is to invest over $3.4 million in tech companies supporting local start-ups and innovations in Africa.

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Apps

iDEA incubator accepting new cohort

iDEA Nigeria has opened up applications to for its next accelerator and incubator programs to find the next cohort of start-ups in Lagos.

Bitcoin entrepreneurship is taking hold worldwide. The first quarter of 2015 saw record levels of investment pumped into Bitcoin startups across the world, with global Bitcoin startups receiving US$299 million – a 51 per cent increase on the end of 2014.

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Apps

Bitcoin: a cryptocurrency ideal for Africa?

Bitcoin entrepreneurship is taking hold worldwide. The first quarter of 2015 saw record levels of investment pumped into Bitcoin startups across the...

Africa seeing a rise in Bitcoin activity.

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Cryptocurrency Africa

Reaching the unbanked in Africa through digital currency and blockchain

Africa is seeing a rise in Bitcoin activity, with the continent’s first Bitcoin conference having taken place earlier this year, and startups...

think Welcomes Four New Tech Start Ups To New Accelerated Incubator Incubation hub think expands to meet demand by entrepreneurs for fast-track support

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East Africa

Think Rwanda set to announce new cohort

Millicom had the idea to create a hub where innovative tech solutions could be developed for the African continent. With that, Think Rwanda...

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Awards

PIVOT East 2015 Semi-finalists Announced

PIVOT East, has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s event. The competition opened the call for applications in April 2015 with startups from...

Awards

Crowdfunding platform Afrikstart dedicated to African entrepreneurs

With President Barack Obama attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya in July, 2015 is deemed to be the Year Of the...

TalkingBookz seeks to disrupt the traditional book publishing market and redefine how Africans consume books

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TalkingBookz to disrupt traditional book publishing in Africa and beyond

Nigeria’s first audiobook online store and publisher, TalkingBookz provides users with unlimited downloads to 3000+ audiobooks including many international bestsellers.

Ghana

MEST Incubator & Samsung partner in West Africa

Recognized as one of Fast Company’s Top 10 “Most Innovative Companies in Africa”, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced...

East Africa

Want to invest directly in growth stage African companies?

As of today ordinary investors can now invest directly in equity and debt fundraising campaigns by unlisted growth-stage companies in select frontier...

Events

Day 3 events at Social Media Week Lagos

Social Media Week is into its third day here in Lagos. Today see’s Nigerian entertainment industry’s heaviest hitters coming together to talk about...

Events