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Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [03/04/2020]

US based SA entrepreneur and Civic founder Vinny Lingham has been under a lockdown for two weeks now and has been stockpiling food since…

Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [27/03/2020] [Updated]

Due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) many events have been called off, including those in the startup community. But don’t be despondent, there’s always the…

Seedstars selects 11 startups to attend its 2020 global summit

UPDATE (9 March 2020): Seedstars World has announced that it has moved its annual Seedstars Summit — which was expected to take place from…

Seedstars Summit Africa 2019 now underway in Johannesburg – here’s who’s pitching

The Seedstars Summit Africa 2019 is now underway in Johannesburg bringing an end to this year’s edition of Swiss emerging market startup competition Seedstars World….

These are the nine startups pitching today at Seedstars Johannesburg

Swiss emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has named the nine startups that will pitch today at Seedstars Johannesburg. The event will be held at…

Digital commerce startup Vectra wins Seedstars Cape Town

*Correction: Subsequent to the publication of the article, Vectra founder Wynand Geldenhuys informed Ventureburn that the company is in fact a digital commerce startup…

Seedstars adds gender equality entrepreneurship track to pitching events

Upcoming Seedstars World pitching events in Bamako, Cape Town and Johannesburg will now include a new gender equality entrepreneurship track. The development follows an…

Seedstars World partners with AfDB to add job creation track to pitching events

Swiss emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to add a job creation track to its pitching…

Travel booking platform Glocaltravel.io wins Seedstars Harare

Glocaltravel.io, a travel booking platform developed by Africabookings.com, has been named the winner of this year’s Seedstars Harare pitching event. Glocaltravel.io will now represent…

Ivorian startup Lifiled named Seedstars Abidjan winner

Swiss emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has named Ivorian startup Lifiled the winner of this year’s Seedstars Abidjan pitching event. The startup offers…

Here are the Ivorian startups pitching today at Seedstars Abidjan

Seedstars World, the Swiss emerging market startup competition, has named the nine companies that will pitch today at Seedstars Abidjan in Ivory Coast. The…

Teheca, an app that connects expecting mothers to nurses wins Seedstars Kampala

Teheca, an app that connects new and expecting mothers to nurses for in home checkup, has come out tops at Seedstars Kampala in Uganda. Teheca…

Here’s who’s pitching this afternoon at Seedstars Tunis

Swiss emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has named the nine Tunisian startups that will pitch today at Seedstars Tunis. The event, which is currently underway…

Solar solutions firm Nadji.Bi Gambia wins Seedstars Banjul

Nadji.Bi Gambia, a firm that offers solar solutions to a potential potential customer base of 1.3-million people, has won this year’s Seedstars Banjul pitching event. The…

These are the nine Rwandan startups pitching today at Seedstars Kigali

Seedstars World, one of the world’s biggest competitions for emerging market tech startups, has announced the names of the nine startups that will pitch today…

Here are the nine Gambian startups pitching this afternoon at Seedstars Banjul

Emerging market startup competition Seedstars World has named the nine startups that will pitch at Seedstars Banjul. The event will kick off at 3pm…

Angolan e-commerce platform Roque Online wins Seedstars Luanda

Angolan e-commerce platform Roque Online has been crowned the winner of this year’s Seedstars Luanda pitching event. The event took place on Friday (6…

Here are the 10 Sierra Leonean startups pitching today at Seedstars Freetown

Seedstars World, one of the largest emerging market startup competitions, has selected 10 Sierra Leonean startups to pitch at today’s Seedstars Freetown pitch event….

Here are the eight Senegalese startups pitching today at Seedstars Dakar

Seedstars World, one of the largest emerging market startup competitions, has selected eight Senegalese startups to pitch at today’s Seedstars Dakar pitch event. The…

Four startups from Zanzibar event win chance to pitch at Seedstars Dar es Salaam

Seedstars World, one of the largest emerging market startup competitions, has selected four Tanzanian startups as the winners of last week’s Seedstars Zanzibar pitch event….

Here are the 10 Tanzanian startups pitching right now at Seedstars Zanzibar

Seedstars World, one of the world’s largest emerging market startup competitions, has selected 10 Tanzanian startups to pitch at today’s inaugural Seedstars Zanzibar event….

Here are the nine Ghanaian startups who will pitch at Seedstars Accra

Seedstars World, one of the world’s largest emerging market startup competitions, has selected nine Ghanaian startups to pitch at tomorrow’s Seedstars Accra event. The Ghana leg…

All-woman panel to select Seedstars Nairobi winner from these 10 Kenyan startups

Seedstars World, one of the world’s largest startup competitions, has selected 10 Kenyan startups to pitch at Seedstars Nairobi this Friday (28 June). The sixth edition of…

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