F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Startup Knight competition to reward innovation, major sponsors in tow
Software-based tech startups check this out. Startup Knight, a competition courtesy of Byte Orbit, will be hosted in Cape Town later this month and…
2go: SA startup you’ve never heard of crushes Facebook in Nigeria
South African instant messaging startup 2go is getting some good traction in Nigeria. The company is reporting that it recently crossed the 10 million…
Daterly: a new social dating network emerges from the African startup scene
Online dating sites like Match and eHarmony use matching algorithms to identify romantic partners, but this approach is believed to be flawed. The New…
75% of US startups fail says new study
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that the number of startups that fail to return their investors’ capital, might be significantly…
Metrorail and mobi.lity launch Go Metro mobile information service
When Ventureburn wrote about mobi.lity earlier this year, we learned about its successful pitch to Western Cape transport agency, Metrorail, for its prototype railway…
Slick, two-step brand mobiliser MHub courting restaurant owners
There are many, many services that allow you to create a free mobile site for your business. Few however, are as slick as MHub,…
African incubator encourages social entrepreneurship to improve young lives
Ventureburn readers from Chad, DRC, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania might find this compelling. GSM network Millicom, operating under the Tigo brand, and non-profit organisation…
Beauty subscription startup rubybox receives funding from HPV Africa
Rubybox, the innovative, try-before-you-buy beauty subscription startup, announced that it has received funding from venture capitalist Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa, for an undisclosed sum….
Attention tech gurus: change a budding entrepreneur’s life with Business Bridge
There are fervent entrepreneurs out there, hungry for your entrepreneurial knowledge. Business Bridge, a not-for-profit organisation, is attempting to start a movement which enables…
1 million African entrepreneurs by 2020 says African Entrepreneur Academy
When we took a look at entrepreneurial hub No Picket Fence, we discovered a group of individuals fervently engaged in sharing their entrepreneurial experiences….
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