Lenovo Southern Africa’s flagship event, Accelerate 2025, has just wrapped up in Johannesburg — and if the conversations are anything to go by, the…
Here are 20 accelerators, incubators for African startups to apply for in 2020
Is your startup looking for technical assistance to develop its minimum viable product (MVP), funding or new clients or partnerships with corporate clients? If…
Are these the biggest SA tech acquisitions of 2019?
This year saw some pretty big acquisitions in the tech sector. Most notable were Kenyan company DPO’s acquisition of Cape Town based fintech PayFast and Vodacom’s…
Controversial or not, these SA entrepreneurs launched or invested in a startup this year [Updated]
UPDATE (27 December 2019): In this article we initially had it that SA entrepreneur Eran Eyal, who was convicted of fraud earlier this month…
African tech startups netted over $6m in collective prize money in 2019 [List]
African tech startups this year tapped millions of dollars by taking part in and winning startup competitions — at least over $6-million collectively, by…
Africa-focused fintech Chipper Cash raises a further $6m
San Francisco based fintech startup Chipper Cash announced yesterday that it had raised a further $6-million, in a seed round led by California-based Deciens…
Fintech startups have until 15 January to apply for Catapult: Inclusion Africa 2020 bootcamp [Updated]
UPDATE (13 January 2020): The application deadline has been extended to this Wednesday (15 January 2020), LHoFT Foundation’s content marketing representative Daniel Gray told…
African science entrepreneurs can tap total of $125k through Next Einstein Forum initiative
Are you an entrepreneurial scientist in the fields of technology, engineering, mathematics or the social sciences? The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and Co-Creation Hub…
Kenyan AI startup UTU raises $500k round from Japanese VCs
Nairobi-based artificial intelligence startup UTU has raised $500 000 in a round in which at least two Japanese venture capital (VC) firms participated in….
Cape Town based OceanHub Africa accelerator to launch first cohort in first quarter of 2020
Cape Town based impact accelerator OceanHub Africa has announced that it will launch its first programme in the first quarter of 2020 with six…
Here are four books you should consider reading this festive season [Book reviews]
By now most of us are winding down business as we prepare for the festive break. For most this is a great time to…
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