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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Easter is coming and ChopUp is asking all of us to join them in doing something different this Easter. The company will release a new game: Chicken Escape. The premise: Don’t kill the chicken. Spare it, and let’s help it escape. Here and taking a play out of Rovio Games’ book is ChopUp’s latest game,…
The Blackberry Leap is BlackBerry’s latest foray into making touchscreen phones, but this time, there’s a twist. Blackberry believes that this new smartphone will appeal to the young people and startup founders audience in particular. The Blackberry Leap features a 5″ 1280 x 720 display, 2MP front facing, 8MP rear facing cameras, 2800 mAh non-removable…
Without a doubt, the startup ecosystem in Nigeria has been bubbling and full of life in recent years. One can’t deny the fact that a lot is going on with quite a number of indigenous startup success stories to show for it. Here are 7 convincing reasons to join the train
Spring, an accelerator that just launched is taking a different a totally different approach from the rest. Spring aims to find, fund and advise up to 90 entrepreneurs who are developing products aimed specifically at the millions of girls in Africa and around the world who live in abject poverty. The new accelerator already has…
Complustech Nigeria Limited has launched Church+ v2, a solution for churches, fellowships and Ministries to overcome administrative and management dilemmas. The solution is set to reach at least 10,000 churches across the country within the next six (6) months offering better Membership and People Management; Performance Analysis; Accounting; Improves SMS and Email communication. Particularly…
Writer and professional photographer, Adewale Yusuf interviewed two of the founding fathers of E-commerce in Nigeria, the Co-Founder and former Managing Director of Nigeria’s No 1 online retailer Jumia, Tunde Kehinde and Former Chief Operating Officer of Jumia, Ercin Eksin. The founders of ACE Africa Courier Express shone a pretty bright light on the future…
This morning, we announced the launch of the Dial-4-home, an offline service for house-hunters for its users in Kenya looking to find ideal homes using their phones; and now the service has launched for Lamudi users in Nigeria too. The Dial-4-Home hotline has been developed as an extension to Lamudi’s market-leading Internet platform to extend…
Online real estate platform, Lamudi, has now introduced an offline service called ‘dial-for-a-home’ for house-hunters for its users in Kenya looking to find ideal homes using their phones. Despite the growing number of internet users in the Kenya, Lamudi says half the population has not yet switched online, which is why it introduced the new…
Nigerian E-Commerce and e-Payments operations company, NeTPlus Advisory has secured a multimillion-dollar investment to further its work in the e-commerce and e-payments space in Nigeria and Africa at large from Synergy Capital, a Ghana-focused Private Equity firm. Pardon the non specifics of the heading, it is unclear how many million dollars was invested in the…
Photo credit: ‘Isomo Loruko’ – oyotunji.org The name you decide to give your shiny new startup could make or mar your chances of success. Here are 3 things you need to consider when choosing an appropriate name for your online business For the love of SEO Do not fall victim of underplaying the importance of…
Hardly a day goes by without an African tech startup being featured in the mainstream media. CNN regularly updates its special report on the topic; The Guardian covers local debates surrounding emerging ecosystems; The Financial Times tracks Africa’s mobile revolution; Forbes has extended its “Top 10” series to include African female tech founders; Vanity Fair pins its hopes…
According to a media report, DealDey, aggregator of discounted goods and services has raised $5 million in Series B funding from Kinnevik. Kinnevik also happens to be DealDey’s original investor. It is unclear how much DealDey has raised in total funding till date, but the rumoured amount of capital invested by Kinnevik is said to…
Hotel booking platform, Jovago, has received a stamp of approval from EFCC that will ensure that customers and partners using the Jovago.com website are assured of the highest quality control on all financial transactions. According to the company’s blog, users can book their hotels & pay online or at the hotel and be assured of…
VMK, a company founded by Vérone Mankou, the Congolese entrepreneur behind the first tablet made in Africa, has announced the opening of its first VMK store in Abidjan today, the 19th of February, 2015. This point of sale which is located in the Treichville commune at Zone 3 C, Immeuble Rive Gauche, will exclusively sell…
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Online enterprise solution startup, PushCV launched the first installment of the Elite Employee Quest in an event last Thursday. The Elite Employee Quest is a competition that aims to identify 5000 of the best talent from the labour market; and then connect them with and place them in top organizations that need their services. The…
Yesterday, at a very brief event held at the Airtel Headquarters in Banana Island, Airtel announced the seven winners of its Catapult-a-Startup event. The winners were: Yuzah Yuzah is a diesel delivery service that allows anyone to request immediate delivery of diesel to their home or office through the Yuzah mobile app ChopUp Games One…
Konga.com is set to deliver through NIPOST (Nigerian Postal Service) across the Country, according to our source; Konga has been working behind the scene on the agreement with NIPOST as a point to deliver to their customers all over Nigeria. Konga is leveraging NIPOST’s reach of about 5000 locations in every part of the country for their…
A pretty common investment trend right now, is one where the rich and established commit part of their portfolio into startups; it’s called Angel Investing (I wrote a think-piece about it a while back, check here) Sometimes a company’s future growth (or birth) is contingent on landing angel investment funding. The challenge is to find…
Gloo.ng, founded by Olumide Olusanya, a former Medical Doctor back in October 2012, along with his wife, is a Lagos-based online supermarket. Well, not for long, they are moving to Abuja come April. Gloo.ng’s value proposition is to provide customers with a very convenient, efficient and affordable means of shopping for their living essentials, saving…
Everyone loves destination holidays. From celebrities to professionals, we all want to get away [for me, it’s Bora Bora *fingers crossed*]. And so Travel Bay is here to democratize the destination holiday experience; to ensure that going on vacation doesn’t put a hole in your pocket. Travel Bay is a pocket friendly way to go on…