Startups
In nearly a decade, hundreds of entrepreneurs have emerged with innovative startups across the African continent. We provide insights on their experiences and highlight the activities of investors who fund them.
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Here are 4 projects by the African Dev Community that really got us talking and we believe you will find interesting: Cruncher At the top of the list is Cruncher, an app made with Ruby on Rails and Angular to “make sense”/ analyse your GTB transaction statement. Maybe you can find out what you’ve been…
“When you are small, don’t rely on your strength, rely on your creativity.” This week, we will be taking a trip into the world of Faaji Hub, checking out how the event vendors’ listing platform is looking to take over the world. There exists a need for party planners who want to have access to a wide…
As Megan E. Holstein put it, if you can’t explain your solution’s comparative advantage in a short period and clearly, you’re already at a disadvantage. So the question is ‘how best can you give a one-sentence pitch?’ As a follower of Techpoint, you probably would know about the Startup of the Week series, a weekly…
The Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) announced on Monday that three (3) new ventures have been admitted into its Incubation program. The startups will each receive seed funding ($15,000 – $25,000), mentoring, business development support and office space critical to their quest to find repeatable business models that can rapidly grow their business. Grit Systems is an…
I’m seriously tired of how easily Nigerians seem to disregard property rights laws (I feel like Linda Ikeji is to blame, but that’s another story). Today we got to witness another evidence of how bad it has gotten with popular food blog, 9jaFoodie calling out food delivery service, Hellofood for the same crime (yes, it’s a crime)…
The African tech industry is growing rapidly. Technology has enabled people on the continent solve problems like financial inclusion and facilitated trade through e-commerce. Africa has a wealth of young entrepreneurs who are hustling to turn their dreams into reality. African entrepreneurs however face common avoidable challenges such as high costs of power generation, internet,…
Preparations for the 2015 edition of DEMO Africa which will hold in Lagos, this year, are intensifying. The event dates have been confirmed as 24th and 25th of September at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. DEMO Africa has now announced that this year’s edition of the DEMO Africa startup event will once…
Look, hiring by social media is upon us. First, It was Mark Essien’s genius quizzes; next we had Sim Shagaya asking people to go bug searching through the Konga iOS and Android app, and now we have Jason Njoku of IrokoTV announcing that IrokoTV is hiring and he would give N1 million to the highest…
The introduction of GSM into Nigeria can be termed one of the nation’s biggest achievements in the last 20 years. With GSM came improved internet penetration and consequentially mobile/internet based businesses such as online gambling, internet banking and eCommerce. The eCommerce sector has seen tremendous growth in the last 4 years with big players like…
“An open source school management solution that solves two biggest problems in the market – customization requirement and user interface design.” AcadaSuite is a school management solution designed to help educational institutes in their day-to-day activities. The solution has modules that are structured to simplify and manage school process and operations with respect to students,…
Over the week, I was trying to shop for a printer on one of the leading online marketplaces in the country. The printer I wanted to go for had no model number in the product details, so I tried getting across to the support team of the store on every available channel but couldn’t get…
Simeon Ononobi is Founder & CEO of SimplePay, an innovative payments platform that allows users with an e-mail address and a bank account to securely and conveniently send and receive payments online, sort of reminiscent of PayPal. What SimplePay is doing is however very unique to the Nigerian market. “I don’t believe that you can just borrow something…
Job recruiters must have one of the most excruciating jobs in the world. What with the huge number of applications they have to process daily? According to Jobberman, recruiters and employers typically spend less than 30 seconds to go through your CV and determine whether or not you get shortlisted. It goes without saying that your chances of getting…
For people who like to read, advancements in reading solutions are a joy. For people who don’t like to read, advancements in reading solutions are also a joy, but for totally different reasons – advancements mean easier ways to get through those books. TalkingBookz, a Lagos based technology start-up, recently launched its flagship product at…
Startup Weekend is a global movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is a large community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 1800 past events in 120 countries around the world in 2014. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: people pitch their…
First, some background. One Africa Media – Venture capitalists who own stake in and operate one of Africa’s largest portfolio of online marketplaces focused on Jobs, Cars, Property and Travel. companies in their portfolio include Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property etc. SEEK – SEEK Limited is the one of the world’s largest global online employment marketplace…
Over the week, I had the opportunity of chatting with the Founder and CEO of ChurchPlus, Ihesie Peter who talked about the solution, the challenges of the company as well as the future of the company. A very bright future, the founder envisages the platform being a global competitor in years to come. In the beginning…
Applications are now open for early founders or growth stage start-ups who can benefit from being part of the iDEA incubator program; especially for entrepreneurs with innovative solutions in Finance, Enterprise (especially for SMEs), E &M Commerce and Healthcare. Selected start-ups will spend up to a year of incubation to become competitive high growth companies. …
Joining the event planning industry in Nigeria, is Eventorer, a platform that makes you an event planner yourself by providing all you need to plan an event. The Eventorer platform boast of having a large directory of event vendors towards helping people plan event with less hassle from end to end. How it works As…
Since the launch of the Konga Marketplace in April 2014, over twelve thousand sellers have registered and are actively trading from their stores on Konga.com. And Konga has been hard at work making selling easier for all the registered merchants, including the new complimentary cards customized for them, in partnership with Printivo. In that vein,…