Search results for "funding"
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5.2KAppsAppsAfrica.com Innovation Award Winners 2015 Announced
Ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 supported by Uber, Mobile Monday South Africa, Appsworld and Picup were announced and honoured...
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3.5KInnovationi4DAfrica Tech Pitch London
Africa Tech Pitch LDN is an evening pitch event aimed at showcasing high-potential, high-impact startups addressing a need in the African market.
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9.2KAwardsFinalists announced for Appsafrica Innovation Awards 2015
The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 attracted over 200 entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents. We can now announce the finalists our...
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2.1KEast AfricaDigging for data on Africa’s climate future
Efforts to digitise old records and gather new data will improve local climate modelling explains Lou Del Bello from SciDevNet. The cardboard...
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2.2KEventsAfrican kids to learn entrepreneurship through Citrus Saturday
Young people around the world will be starting their very first enterprises on Saturday 4 July as they take part in Citrus...
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Apps
SMS service seeks to reduce baby mortality in Africa
Most tech start-ups feel pressure in delivering a good experience for users but none probably as important as this one. “I wish...
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4.4KInnovationFrom motorists to expectant mothers, the CcHub is driving innovation in Nigeria
Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), Nigeria’s first social innovation centre based in Lagos has just announced three new start-ups have been admitted to its...
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2.7KEast AfricaAfrica’s era of tech entrepreneurs
Tech-oriented business incubators and accelerator programmes are opening their doors across Africa. Research by the World Bank has estimated that over 90...
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2.5K1Events
Last chance to register for Tech Pitch LDN tonight
Africa TechPitch supported by Appsafrica.com takes place tonight in London and is aimed at showcasing high-potential, high-impact start-ups and businesses that address a...
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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...
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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...
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Events
Tech Pitch LDN finalists announced
The Africa Technology Business Network is a growing community of entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers who are passionate about driving business-led economic...
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4.0KEast AfricaUK start-up BBOXX raises $3M to lead solar revolution in Africa
The brainchild of three Electrical and Electronic Engineering graduates from Imperial College London, BBOXX a UK start-up delivering clean energy supply in the developing world...
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3.4KAppsApplications closing for $50,000 Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture East Africa accelerator
East African startups have one week left to apply for Village Capital’s new accelerator programme, Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa...
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East Africa
Mobile operators emerge as Africa’s latest VC investor
Venture capital (VC) funding is slowly but surely arriving in Africa for in greater quantities. High profile funding rounds in 2014 for...
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Innovation
Consolidation best bet for profitable e-commerce businesses in Africa
The year 2014 for South African e-commerce platform Takealot adequately sums up all that is good and all that is bad for...
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3.0KAwardsSeedstar World finalists battle for $500K equity prize
After nine months on the road, Seedstars World will be welcoming 36 finalists including seven African startups for the opportunity to claim a...
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3.5KEast AfricaKenya’s BRCK providing African solution to rural connectivity issues
In the last year, the world has woken up to the crucial importance of connectivity in developing nations, with Africa a priority...
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3.5KGadgetsAfrica’s first low-power android desk-top
As technology advances many communities are still left out of the global village which is why there is a need for tailor-made...
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Nigeria
Tech hub to boost social innovation
Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) plans to dramatically increase social innovation in Nigeria with the launch of a $500,000 seed investment fund.
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Nigeria
Applications closing for Lagos start-up accelerator
Applications are now closing for the 440NG 2014 accelerator program in Lagos with only one day left to submit applications. 440NG invest...
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Awards
5 startups to win over $50,000 and VC training at PIVOT East
Five startups will win a combined total of over fifty thousand dollars in funding at the PIVOT East finalists conference. The five...
