Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant promise or a Silicon Valley experiment. It’s embedded in the now. South Africans are already using generative…
Africa no Silicon Valley and other key takeaways from AESIS 2018 VC summit
Cape Town last week welcomed over 300 active and aspiring investors from Africa’s early stage investing ecosystem for last week’s two-day Africa Early Stage…
Samip, Code for Africa call for Cape Town media innovators to pitch products [Updated]
The SA Media Innovation Programme (Samip) and Code for Africa are calling on media innovators in Cape Town to apply to attend the Perfect Pitch…
Knife Capital announces participants in fourth cohort of Grindstone Accelerator
Cape Town based venture capital firm Knife Capital today announced the 12 companies that will make up the fourth cohort of its Grindstone Accelerator programme. They include an…
Women entrepreneurs honoured as 2018 Awief Awards announced
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (Awief) has announced the eight winners of its 2018 Awief Awards. They include a Kenyan innovator who…
Ugandan fintech wins Best Catapulter Award at Catapult: Inclusion Africa
Ugandan micro-pension service and e-wallet platform Four One Financial Services has won the Best Catapulter Award from Catapult: Inclusion Africa, a bootcamp on financial inclusion…
Snapplify to represent SA at next year’s Global Startup Edtech Awards finals
Cape Town based edtech Snapplify is heading to the Global Startup Edtech Awards finals in London — which take place in January next year. This, after coming…
Here are the 11 AfricArena 2018 partner innovation challenge winners
Eleven African startups will get the chance to work with big companies such as RCS and AirFrance KLM and French accelerators such as VivaTech and FSAT…
Gambian agri-business platform Money Farm wins Seedstars Banjul
Gambian agri-business platform Money Farm has been selected as the winner of last Saturday’s (17 November) Seedstars Banjul pitch event. Money Farm, which was founded by CEO and…
Kalon Venture Partners, Compass Capital invested $500k in FinChatBot [Updated]
SA venture capital firm Kalon Venture Partners and Mauritius-based VC Compass Capital today revealed that the investment that the two made last week in SA financial services…
Kenya’s Twiga Foods secures $10m investment from IFC, TLcom
Kenyan mobile-based B2B distribution platform Twiga Foods has secured a $10-million investment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), venture capital firm TLcom and the Global Agriculture and Food Security…
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