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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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In the next 6 months, the Google Impact Challenge for Africa will reward 36 non-profits with community impact in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa a total of $6m in grants.
Lidya, a financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for small businesses, has just announced raising $6.9m in Series A funding. This is coming only 14 months after it raised a $1.25m seed round in March, 2017. This latest funding round was led by Omidyar Network, with support from early Paga investor, Alitheia Capital…
In recent times, I have received several emails about updated privacy terms of services from most of the websites and apps that I use. All of them have something to do with GDPR that is taking effect from May 25th, 2018. You too have probably received a few emails like these in your mailbox. GDPR…
The $47.5 million investment in Cellulant not only surpasses that of Flutterwave but has now become the largest involving a Fintech company operating in Africa.
The eventual goal for all students after secondary school is to gain admission into a tertiary institution. But this did not play well for Aboluwarin Kitan-David and Banjo Mofesola Paul who failed unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) several times (five and three times respectively). During this period, instead of being discouraged, they embraced failure by…
The framework has already been laid down by the Lagos state government, as the structure for the hub would be ready within the next 18 months.
Akure TechUp innovation challenge winner, TREP which is run by two undergraduate students (Taofeek Afeez and Alayande Abiola) of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), emerged as this year’s national finalist of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Nigeria. Microsoft Imagine Cup Nigeria is an annual competition organised by Microsoft corporation for undergraduate students in a…
Port Harcourt based startup, Touchabl finally puts pen on paper to an agreement that allows it secure seed funding of $20,000 from Hubly, formerly Genesys Tech Hub.
Here are some ways brands can still leverage on the massive audience of the forth-coming FIFA World Cup in Russia to grow their brand.
the decision to expand the outsourcing centre aspect of its operation, according to Oluwadaser David, nHub founder, is premised on the increasing uptake in request for its remote developers
The fund, which is estimated between $500,000 and $1 million, will further enable Easyshop Easycook to optimize its online platform and existing farm-to-last-mile supply chain
TradeDepot has reportedly received $3 million in funding from Partech, a venture capital firm specializing in information and communication technologies, and operating in Europe, Paris, Berlin, as well as San Francisco in the US.
Last week, Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, visited Lagos on a personal tour of its tech community. But his visit his visit was disappointing as what follows is a list of matters that were surprisingly not addressed.
A group of former staff members of Payporte claim that the company has failed to pay their salaries since November 2017 despite being a major sponsor of BBNaija. Could these allegations be true?
Placements journey to Washington evokes memories of a humble beginning, one that many “now established” startups in the tech industry can relate with.
The Zinox Group has reportedly acquired Konga but the financial aspects of the deal are still not in the public domain. The acquisition encompasses all of Konga; its eCommerce domain, Konga.com, KOS Express which is its logistics arm, and KongaPay, the integrated mobile money payment channel. According to a ThisDay report, Head of Corporate Communications at the…
Sighting a difficulty Nigerian banks struggle with, they left their stable jobs and formed TeamApt to take on the challenge.
This article was published in 2017. “Won’t you go to work today?” If you have to answer this question or a different version of it frequently, especially with the suspicious glare that it typically comes with, then you probably belong to the league of remote workers. Well, in this part of the world, that could…
Editor’s note: The following exposé was originally published in French by Afrostream founder, Tonjé Bakang. Dear subscribers, partners, entrepreneurs, and friends, On September 13, 2017, two years almost to the day after the launch of the Afrostream video-on-demand service, we stopped the marketing of subscriptions. The service closes definitively in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and in 24…
When you think of farming, the image of a farmer in a remote village with hoes and cutlass comes to mind. That is changing with the age of internet farmers
