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Here are six prizes, challenges African tech entrepreneurs can enter in Q1 2020

Last year African tech startups racked in over $6-million in winnings from startup competitions and challenges. Earlier this week Ghanaian agritech startup Okuafo Foundation…

New Village Capital programme aims to help those who support African entrepreneurs

Village Capital has launched a call for applications for a management training programme aimed at helping train those that work at entrepreneur support organisations…

Five SA startups prepare to jet off to Kingson Capital’s Silicon Valley bootcamp

SA venture capital firm Kingson Capital today announced the names of the five SA tech startups that it will send to Silicon Valley next…

Endeavor welcomes Clickatell’s Pieter de Villiers, FlexClub’s Tinashe Ruzane into fold

Clickatell co-founder Pieter de Villiers and FlexClub co-founder Tinashe Ruzane are the latest SA entrepreneurs to have been selected as Endeavor entrepreneurs. The two…

Ghanaian agritech startup Okuafo Foundation wins $600k Zayed Sustainability Prize

Ghanaian agritech startup Okuafo Foundation has been awarded $600 000 after it won the food category in the Zayed Sustainability Prize 2020. Inspired by…

Antler set to announce names of five startups that netted $100k from Nairobi programme

Antler, a global startup generator and early-stage venture capital fund, will next month announce the names of the five startups that each netted $100k…

IFC in call for East African healthtech startups to apply for TechEmerge programme

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched a call for healthtech startups in East Africa to apply for its TechEmerge Health East…

Endeavor Nigeria welcomes first two entrepreneurs into fold

High-growth entrepreneur organisation Endeavor has welcomed its first two entrepreneurs from Endeavor Nigeria into its network, as well as three North African entrepreneurs. In a statement last month…

Jozi fintech startup Franc Group wins Seedstars Johannesburg 2018

Jozi-based self-insurance platform Franc Group has been selected as the winner of last Friday’s Seedstars Johannesburg pitch event. The fintech startup was founded in…

AfriLabs partners with Francophone innovation hub network Jokkolabs

AfriLabs — a pan-African network of tech innovation hubs — has announced that it is adding 12 new hubs to its network and extending…

Nine African fintech startups selected for Catapult: Inclusion Africa bootcamp

The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) Foundation has announced the 14 fintech startups — nine of them from Africa — that have been…

AFD seeks startups with solutions that boost women to apply to digital challenge

French development bank AFD and innovation platform Digital Africa are seeking African tech startups that help boost women — be it in the economic, social, cultural or political sphere —…

How Naspers could help find SA’s next great tech startups [Opinion]

Former Naspers CEO Koos Bekker has always been vocal about the lack of good tech entrepreneurs in South Africa. It’s a statement that makes…

Cisco launches R10m business incubator in Pretoria, plans further centres

IT multinational Cisco today (1 November) launched a R10-million incubation centre in Pretoria aimed at helping small businesses and startups speed up entry into the market….

‘Excited’ co-founder’s legal firm is among 12 African startups in HiiL accelerator

Being selected for the Hague-based HiiL Justice Accelerator has been the “most exciting” moment in his career for Epoq Legal COO Emile Gerber. The SA legaltech startup —…

Airbus opens call to startups for second edition of its Africa4Future accelerator

Got a tech solution that can help address a problem with the aerospace sector? Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has launched the second edition of its Africa4Future initiative…

Here are the 10 SA startups that will pitch at Seedstars Johannesburg 2018

Seedstars World, one of the largest startup competitions for emerging markets, has announced the 10 SA startups that will pitch at Seedstars Johannesburg this Friday (2 November) —…

Here’s who won at the SA finals of the Southern Africa Startup Awards

The Southern Africa Startup Awards last week Wednesday (24 October), in partnership with Startup Grind Johannesburg, announced the 15 winners of the SA finals…

Meet the 11 startups that will pitch at Seedstars Douala

Seedstars World, one of the largest startup competitions for emerging markets, has announced the 11 startups that will pitch at Seedstars Douala this Friday (2…

Bank Zero to begin beta testing in the first quarter of 2019

Venture capitalist and former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan’s new app-based Bank Zero plans to begin beta testing in the first quarter of 2019, before launching to…

Collaborative medicine platform Rema wins Seedstars Abidjan 2018

Healthtech startup Réseau d’Échange entre Médecins d’Afrique (Rema) has been selected as the winner of this year’s Seedstars Abidjan pitch event. The pitch was held…

Faced with a small VC scene, Ugandan founders dig deep to bootstrap startups

For Ugandan entrepreneur Brian Matsiko, raising funding for his fresh food delivery platform has been far from easy. It’s taken him six years to…

Amazon Web Services to open data centres in Cape Town in 2020

Tech entrepreneurs in Cape Town are set to benefit, with the announcement yesterday by cloud computing services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) that it will open…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

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