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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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…
The #YouCAN pitch competition is an entrepreneurship competition organized in partnership with ActivSpaces, VC4Africa and Sanaga Ventures open to all startups in Cameroon. Cameroon Angels Network (CAN) founded in 2014, invests in all sectors and industries with a particular interest in technology. CAN is the first network of angel investors in Cameroon. The #YouCAN competition…
For those who don’t know, Tiketmobile was an online bus tickets reservation startup that died an untimely death, in July of 2013. Apparently, the startup had burnt through the whole $5000 seed funding it received, barely 10 months earlier, from the Tony Elumelu Foundation, and could no longer continue. Those in the know will probably…
Oya Run With Friends, the game based on Nigeria’s forthcoming general elections, that allows players to run with fictional candidates in an Olympic track event; an interesting metaphor for the country’s presidential “race” it seems; is out. The trailer was released last month; and now the game is out. You can run, win votes and…
The largest Hotel Booking Agency in Nigeria, Hotels.ng has entered into an agreement to be sponsor for the first hackathon in Northern Nigeria. Code name: HackJos. The HackJos Hackathon to be held in Jos, Nigeria is a free, 3 day-long coding marathon for developers to create new and novel applications targeted at providing solutions to…
After receiving what must have been thousands of applications from prospective entrepreneurs; and even having to extend the application deadline by 5 days, Airtel Nigeira has finally sent out invitations to the entrepreneurs with the shortlisted business ideas for the Catapult-a-Startup to their pitching event. At the event, shortlisted candidates would present their ideas to…