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Dragonfly V: The future of hydrogen drones takes flight

A Cape Town-based technology start-up, FlyH2 Aerospace, has announced the successful maiden flights of its hydrogen-electric Dragonfly V drone, which is designed for commercial…

20+ start-ups to lure investors at AfricArena’s Jozi summit

AfricArena, the continent’s leading technology accelerator, is gearing up for its highly anticipated Johannesburg summit. With only three weeks to go until the event,…

Jennifer Ward-Oppenheimer Research Grant Awards $600K to African Researchers Focused on Environmental Solutions

The Jennifer Ward-Oppenheimer Research Grant has been supporting African researchers since its inception, awarding over $600,000 to date, and aims to foster innovative research…

Kayamandi competing to become SA’s first smart township

Kayamandi, a township in South Africa, could become the country’s first smart township, thanks to an ideation competition called the #ideasforchange challenge. The challenge…

VC4A appoints Cassim as its acceleration team lead

VC4A, an ecosystem builder supporting start-ups in emerging markets, has announced the appointment of Abu Cassim as acceleration team lead. With over 20 years…

Cross Switch Ghana to revolutionise digital payments

Cross Switch Ghana has received approval from the Bank of Ghana to operate as an enhanced payment service provider (EPSP). The company plans to…

Pitch your start-up at Invest in Africa Summit in Amsterdam

Invest in Africa Summit 2023 is set to provide start-ups and innovation hubs in Africa with an exciting opportunity to gain access to markets…

B2B platform for small-scale traders opens SA office

SABI, an early-stage start-up with ambitious plans to aid millions of merchants across Africa, believes its new Johannesburg office will help to enable the…

African fintechs can now apply for Luxembourg accelerator

No less than ten of Africa’s most promising fintech start-ups will be selected for the fifth edition of Catapult: Inclusion Africa – a one-week…

5 fintech execs unpack financial inclusion in Africa

With innovative financial products and services in abundance, Africa still sees an enduring level of financial exclusion, believe five of South Africa’s leading fintech…

Hello Tractor joins new Nigerian agri innovation hub

The award-winning agritech start-up Hello Tractor is among the first organisations to join the Edo Agri Digital Innovation Hub. This is a brand-new Pan-African…

Nigeria’s PalmPay launches new payment security campaign

The Nigerian fintech start-up PalmPay launched a new campaign to raise payment security awareness in a desperate attempt to help customers improve their overall…

Grindstone selects Level Finance for entrepreneurship programme

Level Finance, a South African fintech start-up, is among the 20 finalists who made the cut for GrindstoneXL, the entrepreneurship development programme by Grindstone….

Cross-sector collab can unlock financial inclusion in SA

Nomvula Nyandeni, business development lead at Pay@, discusses how innovative thinking and cross-sector collaboration is needed to ensure that appropriate financial services, and instruments…

Conversational AI: Africans disproportionally disadvantaged

With about 3 000 different languages and dialects, Africans lose out when it comes to technology that is usually in English and major European…

Fintech revolution: Interoperability can empower Africans

For the African fintech revolution to reach its true potential, interoperability cannot be confined to the continent. It needs to be completely borderless. MFS Africa…

Portchie launches SA’s first generative canvas NFT art collection

Having sold more than 18 000 original artworks, South African artist Portchie has now also made history by becoming the first in the country…

Snapplify edtech among world’s top higher education sellers

In a new report focusing on the global tertiary e-textbook and multimedia market, South African edtech start-up Snapplify has been named one of the…

Africa Tech Week: Digital change drives economic growth

With African innovation igniting a technology boom, trailblazers from across the continent will gather in Cape Town on Wednesday, 31 August and Thursday, 1…

DigiFemmes invites Côte d’Ivoire women-led start-ups

Women entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire, on the south-eastern coast of West Africa, can now apply to join DigiFemmes Entrepreneurs, a technical assistance programme empowering…

UN launches open call for climate tech innovators in Africa

Young African innovators creating climate technology solutions are invited to join a three-day launchpad where the best projects will be invited to a further…

SA logistics start-up makes courier services more accessible

The face of retail changed forever during the Covid-19 pandemic. Such was the explosion for home deliveries in South Africa that e-commerce more than…

Games, stories key to exploring Metaverse opportunities

Immersive technology, persistent virtual worlds and Web 3.0. These three elements, believe Sea Monster chief executive Glen Gillis, define the essence of the Metaverse,…

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