On January 20, 2025, during President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena, Elon Musk made a hand gesture that ignited…
AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2019 set for October in Addis Ababa
The fourth edition of the AfriLabs Annual Gathering will be held between 28 and 30 October in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. AfriLabs — a Pan-African…
Here are the 20 startups selected for the World Bank’s L’Afrique Excelle accelerator
L’Afrique Excelle, the francophone adaptation of the World Bank’s XL Africa tech accelerator, has announced the names of the 20 startups selected to participate…
SAB Foundation opens entries for Social Innovation, Disability Employment Awards
The SAB Foundation has opened applications for its ninth annual Social Innovation Awards, as well as the fourth annual Disability Empowerment Awards. In this…
Just under two days left to apply for Cities Alliance innovation grants
Innovators working on solutions that could improve tenure security, property and land rights in African cities have until Thursday to apply for up to…
Everything you need to know about East African startup landscape [2019 Update]
Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or…
Google launches 18 new Womenwill chapters across Sub-Saharan Africa
In honour of International Women’s Day, Google today announced the launch of 18 new Womenwill chapters across Sub-Saharan Africa. Womenwill is a Google initiative…
Future Females, UK-SA Tech Hub partner to train 50 SA women tech entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs in South Africa with a tech-enabled idea or business that has a positive social impact have one more thing to smile about…
Visa launches women’s global edition of its Visa Everywhere Initiative
Digital payments giant Visa has launched a women’s global edition of its Visa Everywhere Initiative. The global innovation programme tasks startups to solve payment…
GSMA reveals first speakers of 2019 Mobile 360 Series West Africa
The GSMA has announced the first speakers of the 2019 Mobile 360 Series West Africa conference which will take place on 16 and 17…
Applications for Class 5 of eFounders Fellowship now open
Digital innovators based in Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda can now apply for Class 5 of the eFounders Fellowship. The fellowship is…
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