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5 African takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2018

Mobile World Congress (MWC) the worlds biggest mobile event drew to a close yesterday in Barcelona with everything from 3D selfies to...

Greenhouse Capital completes Africa's most successful ICO for SureRemit

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Greenhouse Capital completes Africa’s most successful ICO for SureRemit

SureRemit, a non-cash remittance platform majority-owned by Africa’s largest fintech holding company, GreenHouse Capital, has raised $7 million on the initial coin...

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Mobile operators from across Africa among potential 9mobile bidders

MTN, Bharti Airtel and Ntel are among 16 firms that formally submitted interest in buying Nigeria’s 9mobile, formerly Etisalat Nigeria. As previously...

LangBot named most promising startup in Ethiopia

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LangBot named most promising startup in Ethiopia

LangBot won the Ethiopia round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland to compete for...

5 reasons African start-ups should apply to GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund

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5 reasons African start-ups should apply to GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund

With less than two weeks left to apply for the second GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund, here are five reasons start-ups in Africa...

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The year serious money was invested in African tech

While difficult to put an exact figure on how much the African tech ecosystem is actually worth, the increased level of activity in...

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mCommerce platform Kasha named Rwanda’s top start-up

Kasha has won the Rwanda round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland to compete...

12 start-ups to pitch at Seedstars Africa in Kigali

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12 start-ups to pitch at Seedstars Africa in Kigali

All roads lead to Rwanda next week for the 12 start-ups pitching at Seedstars Africa in Kigali for the finale of the...

SA marketing platform delvv.io raises over $450K

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SA marketing platform delvv.io raises over $450K

Less than a year after launching, South African creative technology startup delvv.io has successfully concluded first-round funding, securing R6.5 million to further...

Wutiko wins best start-up at Seedstars Dakar

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Wutiko wins best start-up at Seedstars Dakar

Seedstars World brought its Senegal round to a successful close during Seedstars Dakar. The event took place at Jokkolabs, and 9 selected...

Chalkboard Education Wins Seedstars Accra

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Chalkboard Education Wins Seedstars Accra

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets brought its Ghana round to a successful close with local company Chalkboard...

Health start-up Kangpe wins Seedstars Lagos

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Health start-up Kangpe wins Seedstars Lagos

Seedstars Lagos took place last night in Seedspace, where 8 selected startups were invited to present their ideas in front of the...

Malaik to simplify impact investing across Africa

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Malaik platform to simplify and track impact investing across Africa

Malaik the Hausa, Swahili, and Arabic words for ‘Angel’ is also an impact focused equity crowdfunding platform allowing accredited investors co-invest in high...

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The environmental impact of transport tech

Appsafrica Advisory were invited to participate on the Open Streets Cape Town first Transport Minds Gathering. Jeremy George from Appsafrica Advisory, joined...

CEO of Safaricom shares how MNO's are evolving in Africa

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Safaricom CEO shares how they are evolving with tech start-ups

In a recent interview CEO of Safaricom Bob Collymore (BC) shared with Andrew Fassnidge (AF) from Appsafrica.com how the mobile network operator...

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Tech boom in Nigeria boosting demand for rooms and creating new businesses

Nigeria’s rapidly expanding tech scene is creating opportunities in other sectors such as hospitality where soaring demand means hotel prices are among the...

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...