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Nominations for the second edition of the Southern Africa Startup Awards to open on 29 April

Nominations for the second edition of the Southern Africa Startup Awards will open on 29 April, the award’s parent organisation Setup A Startup has…

Swiss accelerator Kickstart calls on later-stage African startups to apply for its 2019 programme

Zurich-based tech accelerator Kickstart has opened applications for programme, and has called on later-stage African startups to apply for its fourth cohort. Kickstart focuses…

Three South African startups among six companies selected to pitch at the Stanford Africa Business Forum

Three South African startups have been selected to pitch at the Stanford Africa Business Forum which kicks off this Saturday (20 April) in Stanford,…

Founders Factory Africa selects five African fintech startups for accelerator, $40k investment

Corporate-backed accelerator and incubator Founders Factory Africa has selected five African fintech startups for its six-month long acceleration programme and for investments of up…

Dakar Network Angels looking to make four investments per year with investment tickets of $20k to $100k

Dakar Network Angels (DNA), a francophone Africa focused angel investment group which launched last month will make four investments each year, with investment tickets…

SA Bitcoin wallet, merchant payment startup Centbee raises £1-million from Calvin Ayre in Series-A round

Johannesburg-based Bitcoin wallet and merchant payment startup Centbee has announced that it has raised £1-million from Ayra Ventures founder Calvin Ayre. Centbee was founded in…

Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund to invest tickets of €3m-€15m in African startups

The recently launched Cathay Africinvest Innovation Fund will invest tickets of between €3m and €15m or the equivalent in local currency, Cathay Innovation co-founder Denis…

Pearson Ventures’ $50m fund will explore opportunities in South Africa, other markets

South Africa is one of the markets in which British education company Pearson will explore opportunities through its $50-million Pearson Ventures fund, says Pearson…

ConnectMed founder joins Google as product manager after take over by Merck

ConnectMed founding CEO Melissa McCoy has joined Google as a product manager, following the takeover of the Nairobi-based healthtech startup through an asset sale…

Here are the eight finalists of the Season 3 of the Santam Safety Ideas Challenge

General insurer Santam has selected eight finalists who will compete in the finals of Season 3 of its Santam Safety Ideas Challenge in August….

JSE-listed investment group Sabvest acquires 30% stake in crypto platform Revix [Updated]

Sabvest, a JSE-listed investment group, has announced that it has acquired a 30% stake in digital asset management platform Revix. Revix uses proprietary bundling…

AfricArena expands world tour to include Abidjan, Cairo, Kigali

Tech startup conference and ecosystem accelerator AfricArena has expanded its world tour to include Abidjan, Cairo and Kigali. In a statement issued after its…

Google to offer 30 000 Google Africa Certifications Scholarships this year

Internet giant Google has announced that it will this year offer 30 000 Google Africa Certification Scholarships. The move is inline with the firm’s…

Fourth annual MEST Africa Summit to take place in Nairobi

MEST Africa has announced that the 2019 MEST Africa Summit will take place between 10 and 12 June in Nairobi, Kenya.

All you need to know about the 2019 SA Innovation Summit Pitching Den, Inventors Garage

Looking for investment, funding, new markets or new customers? Or do you want to showcase your invention to the world? Then you’ll likely be…

Media must help unite Africa’s tech startup scene, but also act as watchdog – Buckland

While the media has a role to play in uniting the continent’s fragmented tech startup scene, it also has a duty to perform the…

Jumia story about to become a whole lot more successful [Opinion]

Later this year, the African startup world will hit a massive milestone. The largest ecommerce business in Africa, which last month filed for an…

As SA proptech sector hots up here are five startups to watch

The proptech sector is hotting up. Last year saw online estate agency PropertyFox acquire fellow Cape Town based property platform Steeple for an undisclosed sum and Pam Golding Properties buy up…

How South African startups are solving informal sector problems [Opinion]

A valid criticism of the country’s nascent startup scene is that the businesses that are being created are just thoroughly irrelevant to the actual…

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