Lenovo Southern Africa’s flagship event, Accelerate 2025, has just wrapped up in Johannesburg — and if the conversations are anything to go by, the…
Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [23/02/2020]
This Thursday (27 February) in Cape Town, Heavy Chef will feature three investors in the second of its two events on investors. Over in…
Four Cape Town startups land over R2.7m in Savant TIA grants for their innovative ideas
Four Cape Town based startups have collectively landed over R2.7-million in seed grants from the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), administered by Savant, a hardware tech…
Nigerian fintech Vesicash nets further investment from Ingressive Capital
Nigerian fintech Vesicash has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Lagos-based investor Ingressive Capital. The startup provides a digital escrow service which helps…
Dutch VC fund takes a stake in SA’s Centbee after Paper Plane Ventures exits startup
UPDATE (21 February): An earlier version of this story had it that Dutch venture capital (VC) company Two Hop Ventures had acquired SA VC…
AfriLabs announces Morocco as host for next Annual Gathering
AfriLabs, a pan-African network of 174 technology and innovation hubs across 45 African countries has announced that it will host the fifth edition of…
Nigerian crypto platform Bitfxt lands $15m from UK investors, Payitup parent company
Nigerian crypto investment platform Bitfxt has announced that it has raised $15-million from a UK syndicate of hedge funds and UK company, Payitup Clearinghouse….
HiiL calls for legaltech innovators to take part in Global Legal Hackathon 2020
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) and Qubit Solutions, together with IBM South Africa, are looking for lawyers, technologists and active citizens…
Nigerian fintech Carbon sets up $100k Pan-African fund
Nigerian fintech Carbon announced today that it has set up a $100 000 Pan-African fund for budding tech entrepreneurs on the continent. Carbon claimed…
Here are the 13 African fintechs selected for LHoFT’s bootcamp in Luxembourg [Updated]
UPDATE (23 March 2020): Subsequent to the publication of this article, the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) added Nigerian startup SmartTeller and Ghanian…
Anzisha Prize opens 2020 applications, with $100k in shared money up for grabs
Today, the Anzisha Prize — Africa’s premier award and fellowship for Africa’s youngest entrepreneurs — is excited to announce that the 2020 call for…
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