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Akili Labs, BGI Genomics bring clinical sequencing to Africa

Akili Labs and BGI Genomics have signed a technology transfer agreement to provide southern Africa with clinical-grade sequencing solutions. This development will improve the…

Finverity raises $5m to bridge global trade finance gap

London-based digital ecosystem for trade and supply chain finance, Finverity, raised $5 million in an oversubscribed equity funding round from both new and current…

Funding gap: Africa is rich with women entrepreneurs, but…

Despite being the continent with the highest proportion of women entrepreneurs globally, African women receive less than 7% of all venture capital investment. Jessica…

Savvy awards 3 impact-driven start-up founders

The 2023 Savvy prize for impact-driven entrepreneurs has come to a close, and three winners have been selected out of over 3 000 applications…

AWS announces funding boost for women founders in Africa

Tiffany Johnson, the global business development manager at AWS Startups, this afternoon launched the new Fem-Tech Startup Innovation Challenge aimed at empowering women founders…

Ramp secures $5m for game-changing forecasts

Ramp, a global decision science start-up with its head office in the United Kingdom, has closed a $5 million seed funding round. The company…

ABC Fund invests $4.5m in African agri-businesses

The Agri-Business Capital Fund (“ABC Fund”) has made a significant investment in the agri-tech industry across Africa, totaling €4.21 million (about $4.5 million). It…

SADA also unveils digital academy in Côte d’Ivoire

Smart Africa’s capacity building arm, the Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA), continues to expand its footprint in Africa, with Côte d’Ivoire being the latest…

New real-time AI platform announced at AI Africa Expo

With a Cape Town-based founder, Jay van Zyl, a United States start-up known as ecosystem.ai today launches its real-time, behavioural SaaS platform at the…

Load shedding changed ‘how we work, live and play’

While South Africans are fearing a “total blackout” amid one the worst power cuts since December 2019, load shedding has dramatically changed the way…

Savvy to train 1 000 start-up founders in Kenya

An additional 1 000 young Kenyans will be empowered to start their own start-ups following a partnership agreement between Savvy and the Kenya Private Sector…

Paradigm shift needed to teach software development

Technology is evolving rapidly. It seems only fair to expect that the skills being taught to software developers entering the workplace also need to…

What SMEs should be looking for in a start-up accelerator

Starting and running a business is challenging, especially in today’s economic climate. More than ever, the right support network for SMEs can significantly improve…

Cape Town start-ups urged to join Bootcamp to Boardroom

Start-ups wanting to scale, gain access to mentors and investors, and a well-connected peer-to-peer network that will take their business to the next level…

Teach technology skills at all education levels, plead experts

Technology literacy and digital literacy are crucial for Africa’s future. And while we are making progress with the introduction of coding in primary schools…

Invest in metaverse marketing? Rather sit back and wait

If you’re wondering whether your brand should be buying some metaverse advertising real estate, the answer is that you can probably take a sit-back-and-see-what-unfolds…

East African start-ups can apply to pitch at AfricArena event

With its East African summit now just three weeks away, AfricArena has announced the names of the first high-profile speakers who will travel to…

6 youth-led start-ups win big at Pitch AgriHack

African agritech innovators from all four corners of the continent claimed victory in the eight edition of Pitch AgriHack. The 2022 competition saw a…

Africa Data Centres joins forces with Nigeria’s IXPN

Africa Data Centres, the largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities in Africa, and part of the Cassava Technologies group, has…

M-KOPA unlocks $600m in credit for underbanked customers

M-KOPA, a fast-growing African fintech platform, says it unlocked $600 million worth of credit for customers by the end of 2021. In its latest…

Women in Crypto to simultaneously gather in Accra, Nairobi

Women Who Build Africa, a community that brings together women and non-binary people working in or around the tech space, has officially launched. Its…

FMO backs SBC AfriTech to empower more African start-ups

Designed to scout skill and scale early-stage tech startups in Africa, the third installment of the Africa Startup Initiative is back with a bang….

SADA rolls out national digital academy in Benin

Smart Africa’s capacity building arm, the Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) and the government of Benin have launched a national digital academy, demonstrating the…

Epson Survey Reveals Surge in Demand for Projectors as Home Cinema Trend Takes Off

Opera Mini Brings Free AI to South Africa, Tackling Data Costs and Boosting Digital Inclusion

HONOR X7c: Does This Budget Beast Deliver on Battery and That 108MP Camera?

Umvuzo Health Turns 21 with a Tech-Driven Medtech Model That’s Redefining Corporate Healthcare

Kazang Brings Card Payments to Spaza Shops, Driving Fintech-Fuelled Financial Inclusion

Flutterwave Launches Accelerate Workshop to Upskill Young Africans in Tech

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

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