Africa

Take Action to bridge gap between community and service providers

Service delivery sucks. Even when it works, it generally requires you to go stand in a queue, wait on hold, make extra payments… you…

Disrupt everything: Lagos and the transportation overhaul

The streets are flooded, it has been raining all night and all morning, and I need a cab. I have a couple of meetings…

Global Innovation Index 2014 spells promising signs for Africa

Swizerland, the United Kingdom and Sweden have been named the world’s most innovative countries of 2014. The seventh annual Global Innovation Index (GII) study…

Rwanda’s Think tech incubator calls for Africa’s savvy entrepreneurs

Based in Kigali, Rwanda, and brought to us by Tigo and Millicom, the Think tech incubator has now opened its doors and is looking…

PayFast’s 30k merchants can now accept bitcoin as online payment

Starting today, one of South Africa’s most popular online payment service, PayFast, is enabling sellers using its services to easily start accepting bitcoin payments…

6 inspiring insights to learn from photo-editing startup Over’s story

Photo-editing startup Over is all about inspiration. Just follow its Instagram account and you’ll find a range of motivational — often quirky — images…

Carmudi zooms in on Africa’s mobile generation with new Android app

Since it launched mid-2013, Carmudi has shown to be one of Rocket Internet’s fastest expanding startups. The online car classifieds startup has launched an…

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Nairobi could become the African tech leader

Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has presented a summary of his Africa trip in which he said Kenya’s capital Nairobi was “a serious tech…

Where are the women in African tech?

This article by Hilda Moraa Morara originally appeared on Venture Capital for Africa, a Burn Media publishing partner. The clamour for innovation in the…

Why African tech entrepreneurs need to learn from each other

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” – John Cotton Dana Learn. Teach. Two words that startups and members of tech hubs…

Entrepreneurs speak about their motivations for 2013

What motivates entrepreneurs building great companies in Africa? At VC4Africa, the largest online community of African entrepreneurs and investors, ‘creating better lives’ and ‘feeling…

How tech entrepreneurship is driving development and innovation in Africa

In just the past five years, Africa’s mobile phone market has rapidly expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States…

5 ways to grow the amount of early stage VC funding in South Africa

A new report set out to explore the reasons for the lack of early-stage VC in South Africa and to provide some proposals for…

Protecting your inventions: IP and the perceptions of Kenyan startups

Economies can lose billions of dollars due to piracy and IP infringement. Therefore, a country that values intellectual property (IP) can potentially create an…

20 African news startups you really have to know about

Countries around the African continent have a chance to do something really special when it comes to news innovation. With a highly mobile literate…

4 ways to help build your tech startup in Africa

There are many issues that African tech startup entrepreneurs have to deal with in building successful global businesses, but I’d like to highlight these…

Entrepreneur diaries: trying to get funds can be a distraction

Editor’s Note: Nicholas Haralambous was the co-founder of mobile social network builder Motribe, which was recently acquired by Mxit for an undisclosed sum. The…

Entrepreneur diaries: lessons I learnt from building a mobile startup in Africa

Editor’s Note: Nicholas Haralambous was the co-founder of mobile social network builder Motribe, which was recently acquired by Mxit for an undisclosed sum. The…

Oxygen Broadband’s Wi Fi hotspots aim to connect Nigeria and its entrepreneurs

Getting access to a fast and affordable internet connection in Nigeria is still problematic. To solve this, internet provider Oxygen Broadband is aiming to…

Africa rising: entrepreneurship now in vogue with students [Study]

Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. These days, every second person you meet doesn’t want to go find themselves in a temple in India…

Report reveals attitudes towards entrepreneurship in Africa

African entrepreneurs rank the EU as the region offering the most profit potential to new African Business, despite Europe’s recent economic woes. One in…

Nollywood 2.0: how tech is making Africa’s movie industry a global leader

Nollywood, Nigeria’s ever-expanding film industry, is ranked #2 globally, after Bollywood (#1) and Hollywood (#3), by the number of annual film productions (making roughly…

Silicon Lagoon: Nigeria’s growing innovation hotspots

It seems Nigeria’s Silicon Lagoon, based in Lagos is upping its innovation game. The region recently saw the launch of the ‘Lagos Angel Network,’…

The Alarming Truth About Gen Z Gaming Cybercrime

SA’s Smallest Businesses Are Job Engines – So Why Can’t They Get Funding

Starlink in South Africa – Regulatory turbulence grounds Elon Musk’s satellite internet plans—for now

Investors Finding Their Way Back to the Kenyan Market

African VC Market Rebound

South Africa’s MSMEs Still Locked Out of Funding – New Report Calls for Radical Reform

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

Gemini AI to enhance Volvo infotainment

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