Start-Ups
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3.1KBootstrapping an mhealth business in Africa
Chukwuemeka Onyenwe, CEO and co-founder of Nigerian tech start-up Find-A-Med updates on their progress since first featured on Appsafrica.com. Onyenwe provides great insight for...
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4.4KBitPesa gains investment to grow BitCoin business in Africa
BitFury Group, the world’s leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, has made an investment in BitPesa, one of Africa’s leading bitcoin...
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4.3KTech 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...
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3.1KBuilding 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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3.7KGhana: 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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2.8KSeedstars Africa bringing top startups, mentors and investors together in Morocco
300 African startups, investors, speakers and mentors from over 20 different countries across Africa and Europe will be at Seedstars Africa along...
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3.4KSouth African start-up matching pictures to sound in real-time
Taking photos, selfies and sharing your life with the world is easy but sometimes the context can be lost with no audio,...
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2.4KSuregifts launches new credit platform
While Nigerian consumers have some credit options, they are largely difficult to access because of the very high interest rates, difficult payment...
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2.4KNew Search Engine uses 70% of its profit to undertake water projects
Water is often taken for granted and typically not a focus in technology circles, being considered more a health and social issue...
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2.6KWeChat 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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2.4KFacebook launches Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa
Facebook is launching the Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, with the aim of recognising developers and entrepreneurs who are using the internet to improve the...
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3.1KiDEA 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.
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3.5KAppsafrica Innovation Award Winners 2015
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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4.9KAppsAfrica.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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3.3Ki4DAfrica 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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6.7KBest African App 2015?
The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 attracted entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents, we now take a look at the Best App...
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4.6KMD of Jovago.com shares insight on online travel and hotel bookings in Africa
Marek Zmyslowski, Managing Director of Jovago.com, Africa’s No 1 booking portal explains how online bookings are changing travel in Africa. Jovago is...
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Best Disruptive Innovation Finalists
With only a few weeks to go until the Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 in Cape Town, kindly supported by Mobile Monday South Africa, Uber and AppsWorld we...
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6.2KMillions of users across Africa read books on mobile
Research has shown that reading for pleasure is positively linked with literacy-related benefits such as writing ability, text comprehension and grammar. It...
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2.5K200 entrepreneurs to launch businesses on buses in Africa
Microsoft and AMPION took Appsafrica.com’s Paul Adepoju on the West African venture bus in Lagos, Nigeria to talk start-ups.
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2.3KInvestors outnumber startups at DEMO Africa 2015
After months of anticipation, preparation and adjudication across the continent, Africa’s biggest startup event DEMO Africa is holding today with a rather...
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2.9KDEMO Africa ushered in with ABAN Investor Summit
The 2015 edition of Africa’s biggest startup event DEMO Africa was ushered in on Wednesday with the ABAN Investor Summit presented by...
