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Africa’s Business Heroes competition seeks shining stars

The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy have launched the fifth edition of the Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition. It is a philanthropic initiative…

Over-C gets $1.2m investment for risk innovation

Over-C Limited, a leading property management software platform, has secured £1 million (about $1.2 million) in equity investment from Ayre Ventures. As part of…

Senegalese tea start-up wins $25k in AgriPitch competition

Senegalese businesswoman Adja Sembene Fall’s start-up Contanna has been an inspiration to many in the agriculture sector. Despite having only $200 to her name,…

Flexible staffing solutions needed to survive power cuts

Tania Govender, sales director at Worldwide Staffing, discusses the impact of load shedding on SMMEs in South Africa. With businesses struggling to cope with…

Vodacom Tanzania awards top tech start-ups with $85k

Vodacom Tanzania, in partnership with Smart Lab, has announced the three winners of the second season of its digital accelerator programme. The top three…

Peach Payments rolls out Capitec Pay’s real-time payments

South African fintech company, Peach Payments, has partnered with Capitec Bank to launch Capitec Pay, a new open banking payment method that allows online…

Stitch adds Capitec Pay to its impressive API offering

South Africa-based payments company, Stitch, is expanding its payments infrastructure offering by integrating Capitec Pay into its API. This integration will allow Stitch clients…

Innovation Hub celebrates 57 CoachLab start-up founders

Following months of intensive learning and personal coaching, 57 entrepreneurs from across South Africa graduated from the 2021 CoachLab Entrepreneurship Programme. The ceremony was…

Agritech disruptor AgriKool vows to increase farmer profits

Amid ever-rising food prices, interest rate hikes, fuel increases and changed weather patterns, a South African agritech start-up, AgriKool, hopes to bring down the…

Agritech start-up raises R1.7m in seed funding round

PixelBlue, the parent company of South African agritech start-up Homefarm, says it raised R1.7 million (about $104 000) in seed funding to enable consumers,…

Tech investment key to creating sustainable change in SA

As one of Africa’s “big four” start-up ecosystems, South Africa is an undisputed tech innovation leader. Paula Mokwena, chief executive of local venture capital…

Launch Africa ignites $2.5m Skrmiish seed round

Cape Town-based Launch Africa has made its first ever investment into a gaming-tech venture with Skrmiish, the world’s first mobile play-to-earn app. This, as…

Tripesa to digitise tourism MSMEs following pre-seed round

The Ugandan tourism-tech start-up Tripesa has closed a pre-seed round with participation from Eric Osiakwan, Future Africa, Consonance Investment Managers and LTNT Investments to…

Africa’s only Metaverse venue bags Swiss VC funding

Billed as Africa’s first and only Metaverse venue, SodaWorld has secured initial global investment form a prestigious Swiss venture capital firm. The technology start-up enables…

DataProphet closes $10m series A round led by Knife Capital

South Africa-founded DataProphet has completed a $10 million series A funding round. This, says insiders, sets the AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) platform on its way to…

Droppa goes global following series A funding round

Droppa, a South African logistics start-up, closed its series A investment round with SkyNet Worldwide Express. The relationship, though, was not formed in a…

From zero to hero: Zimele backs 500 rural start-ups

Mining giant Anglo American has vowed to turn more than 500 South African start-ups in rural communities into sustainable and successful companies. This will…

African languages AI picked for Grindstone accelerator

Billed as Africa’s first conversational AI, Botlhale AI is among the 25 high-growth start-ups that were hand-picked for a year-long programme by Grindstone, a…

AfricArena announces more top speakers for Tunisia summit

With organisers announcing more high-profile speakers, the official countdown has begun for AfricArena’s upcoming North Africa summit hosted in Tunis, the capital, and the…

Closing the gender gap for women in technology

It seems the South African digital sector hasn’t quite grasped the age-old law of supply and demand. Technology companies are scrambling for capable women…

Africa’s start-up glory a major confident booster for Africans

A recent wave of technology innovation coming out of Africa is changing how Africans view the continent. This is according to a new report…

SAVCA to honour businesses who thrived with investment

Portfolio companies, private equity and venture capital funds have until Monday, 15 August to enter the 2022 SAVCA Industry Awards hosted by the Southern…

Win cash, training in Access Bank’s womenpreneur contest

On the eve of South Africa’s official Women’s Day celebrations, Access Bank South Africa has announced a new programme in which three women-owned start-ups…

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