Search results for "investment"

• 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...

• Innovation

  CcHub call for entrepreneurs

  Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is a launch pad for start-ups, transforming ideas to sustainable ventures that solve real Nigerian problems. To date CcHub...

• 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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  East Africa

  UK 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...

• Innovation

  Is Africa ready to facilitate large-scale satellite deployments?

  With the advent of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services within Africa’s connected business environment, the question of what happens with the remainder...

• Events

  Day 4 of Social Media Week Lagos

  Here’s the full schedule of today’s events at Social Media Week in Lagos

• 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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  Ethiopia

  Interoperable mobile money service goes live in Ethiopia

  Another day, another mobile money initiative in Africa in an ever changing landscape. Today Ethiopians have been given access to mobile financial...

• Events

  Cameroon start-ups competition

  Cameroon Angels Network is organizing a pitch competition at GICAM in Douala, Cameroon on November 29th 2014 called #YouCAN. In partnership with...

• Awards

  Calling all African innovators for $150K IPA 2015 award

  AIF announces 30-day extension for the US$ 150 000 IPA 2015 award – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for African innovators to take their...

• Social Media

  Social media for business a no-brainer

  Social media for business is the single most cost effective distribution channel any business has at its disposal. This Content-generating resource lends...

• East Africa

  Tanzanian edu-tainment cartoon Ubongo targets expansion

  Tanzanian social enterprise Ubongo is planning on launching its edu-tainment cartoon Ubongo Kids, which went live on terrestrial television in January, in...

• 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.

• Apps

  Ugandan student becomes apps “billionaire”

  Abdu Ssekalala is a young Ugandan student at the School of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University, and a billionaire, at least...

• Apps

  Mobile survey app GeoPoll tracks African views

  Global mobile surveying tool GeoPoll has been tracking the opinions of Africans over the ongoing US-Africa Leaders Summit, finding 37 per cent...

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  Awards

  Nigerian start-ups top entries for Demo Africa 2014

  DEMO Africa has released the names of the forty start-ups that have qualified to launch their product on the DEMO Africa stage...

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  Awards

  DEMO Africa Application Window Closes

  The application window for DEMO 2014 has finally closed with VC4Africa confirming that 27 African countries are represented this year.

• 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...

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  Events

  Seedstars coming to iHUB Nairobi

  iHub Nairobi, in partnership with payment solutions company, Ingenico will be hosting Seedstars Nairobi, the Nairobi leg of Seedstars World on the 3rd...

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  Nigeria

  Growing pains for Nigerian tech start-ups

  Foreign investment became a lively topic of debate today at Mobile West Africa (#MWA2014), which is being held in Lagos, Nigeria this...

• Awards

  PIVOT East 2014 Semi-finalists Announced

  PIVOT East the startups competition geared towards nurturing the growing ICT talent in East Africa, has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s competition....

• Events

  Investors flock to Lagos this week to meet new start-ups

  Angel Fair West Africa (AFWA) is bringing together entrepreneurial businesses and active investors from across Africa to “do deals” in Lagos this...