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Google supports South African start-ups, SMMEs and NPOs to help economic recovery

Google for South Africa unpacked its support for startups, SMMEs and nonprofits in a bid to accelerate digital transformation and help South Africa’s economy…

CT edtech startup wants to reach 1M kids and solve Africa’s tech job skills crisis

Mindjoy, the Cape Town-based edtech startup that’s for kids, aims to help one million children discover their superpowers through coding. Founded by Gabi Immelman…

Follow-on investment gives Carscan license to disrupt.

Augmented reality start-up Carscan closed a successful follow-on funding round that drew over $1 million in capital investment from Kalon Venture Partners, Allan Gray…

Cybersecurity is the top business risk in 2022

Cyber security concerns top the global Allianz Risk Barometer for only the second time in the survey’s history. Responders in South Africa, its continental…

Crime soars in security marketplace Aura’s inaugural report

AURA, South Africa’s leading security and medical response marketplace has released its inaugural Crime Trend Report, providing new and unique insight into South Africa’s…

Kenyan fintech Ubawa secures $350K seed funding

Ubawa Technologies, 2021 African Start-up Awards Start-up of the Year winners for Kenya, has secured $350 000 in seed funding from Nigerian VC Platform…

AFEX opens second round of funding series to strengthen Nigeria’s agriculture sector

AFEX has announced the reopening of its $240m (₦100bn) Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) to help stabilise Nigeria’s agriculture sector by offering Agro-processors low-cost financing to…

Free WiFi grows Citizen Journalism in the City of Tshwane

Project Isizwe, a non-profit organisation that aims to bring the internet to people across South Africa, said on Wednesday it is encouraged that citizen…

ApexPeak expands to the Middle East with Cashnomix acquisition

Marking its expansion into the Middle East, alternative finance company ApexPeak has just acquired Dubai based Cashnomix — a cloud based invoicing service. ApexPeak,…

CiTi announces Ian Merrington as new CEO

The Cape Innovative and Technology Initiative (CiTi) — which is responsible for projects like the Bandwidth Barn and CapaCiti — has just announced the…

Silicon Cape, TechWomen aim to showcase ‘pipeline of women tech leaders’

Silicon Cape, the South African entrepreneurial initiative, will this week host an event organised by TechWomen, an Initiative of the US Department of State’s…

Sideways wine farm app launches to make our summer more tipsy

South Africa’s Western Cape is renowned for its pretty, luxurious Winelands. It’s also responsible for around 4% of the world’s wine production. And so…

Jumia partners with First Bank of Nigeria so shoppers can pay in installments

“Those days of saving up all you had only to buy one single product are over,” Jumia boasts. Nigerian ecommerce has always had a…

Fintech startup Azimo is tapping into West Africa’s remittance market

As you may know by now, the remittance scene in Africa is quite a big topic with a bunch of startups both locally and…

Seed Academy startup survey comes with chance to win R48k worth of training

South African entrepreneurial school Seed Academy has launched a startup survey which gives participants the chance to win one of three places at Seed…

Kenya’s M-Kopa wins $1.5M, plans to build university institute

Solar energy in Africa is really hip and happening. The pay-as-you-go solar energy startup from Kenya, M-Kopa, has just won the 2015 Zayed Future…

Ubongo, Lekki Peninsula Affordable Schools named Africa’s top edupreneurs

There are plenty of exciting entrepreneurs in Africa trying to kickstart education systems through affordable education, interactive games, online content and digital career discovery…

Uber finally comes to Kenya, African expansion to be tested

It was only a matter of time before Uber unleashed its East African chapter. The US$40-billion worth taxi company is finally about to show…

SA startup looks to provide relief to those affected by Woza shutdown

The shutdown of Woza, Google’s free website service, earlier this week was big news. Understandably so too: the service, which launched in early 2012…

The Green City Startup looking to fund over R1M eco-friendly startups in Jozi

In partnership with the City of Johannesburg, Resolution Circle and the University of Johannesburg, green entrepreneurs are encouraged to partake in The Green City…

Travelstart acquires Hong Kong’s Satisfly to boost its social intelligence chops

Cape Town-headquartered online flight booking company Travelstart has acquired Satisfly, a Hong Kong-based social intelligence company. Founded in 2008, Satisfly uses big data and…

SA radar startup iKubu exits to Garmin technologies

iKubu, the Stellenbosch, South African-based company popularly responsible for the Bactracker bicycle radar technology, has exited to satellite navigation multinational Garmin. Grindstone fellow, iKubu…

Online auctioning site LiveBids launches, introduces pay-per-bid model

LiveBids Auctions has recently launched in a bid to take on South African hot shots like BidorBuy and international ones such as Ebay. These…

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AI in Recruitment: How Blue Pearl is Transforming Hiring for Modern Businesses

enza Secures $6.75M Seed Funding to Revolutionize African Payments

MGX’s $2 billion investment in Binance marks historic institutional backing

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