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SmartBlade co-founder Dr Caroline Corbett scoops Awief’s Tech Entrepreneur Award

Dr Caroline Corbett, the co-founder of Cape Town based medtech startup SmartBlade, has won the Tech Entrepreneur Award at the 2019 Awief Awards. Dr Corbett (pictured above…

Zambian legaltech platform Apptorney wins Seedstars Lusaka

Zambian legaltech platform Apptorney has been named the winner of this year’s Seedstars Lusaka pitching event. Apptorney, which was founded last year by Muchu…

Aerobotics named Best Startup, Venture Capital Company at 2019 Savca Industry Awards

Cape Town-based agritech startup Aerobotics has won the Best Startup and Venture Capital Company category at the 2019 Southern African Venture Capital and Private…

SA’s FinChatBot selected for Class 8 of INV Fintech accelerator

Johannesburg-based FinChatBot has been accepted into Class 8 of the New York based INV Fintech accelerator. FinChatBot develops artificial intelligence (AI) powered chat bots…

Nigeria’s Lidya set on being biggest non-bank lender to SMEs with Polish, Czech expansion

Nigerian fintech startup Lidya is on a drive to become the world’s biggest non-bank lender to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the world. “The…

Legal Hub Uganda wins Innovating Justice Challenge Kampala Regional Finals

Legal Hub Uganda has been named the winner of The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) 2019 Innovating Justice Challenge Kampala Regional Finals….

Amazon to incubate black entrepreneurs as part of R365m equity equivalent initiative [Updated]

Correction (11 November): Amazon Web Services today clarified in a statement that its newly launched equity equivalent investment programme aims to support 100% black-owned…

New incubator Tuksnovation to help commercialise IP at University of Pretoria

South Africa’s challenges must not be seen as problems but as opportunities for young entrepreneurs, says Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) CEO Mandisa Tshikwatamba….

Luno looking to hire 40 new staff at Cape office amid tech investment boom in city

Amid a tech boom in Cape Town, SA bitcoin exchange Luno has gone on a hiring spree. The startup is looking to fill 40 new…

Jack Ma to attend Unctad, Alibaba Group event on digital economy in Joburg

Jack Ma, the Alibaba Group founder and UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) special advisor, is set to speak at an event on the digital economy…

Microsoft funds three African startups to boost rural internet access

Tech giant Microsoft has, through its Airband Grant Fund, invested an undisclosed amount in three startups to provide internet access and cloud-enabled solutions to underserved…

Silicon Cape launches new membership model, strategy

Cape Town based tech initiative Silicon Cape has launched its new strategic plan, as well as a new membership model. The organisation, which aims to support…

SA drone startup Aerobotics launches bid to take on US market

SA aerial data-analytics startup Aerobotics has hired a US representative and plans to expand into the US market, with a team from the startup set to…

Andela’s VP global operations on why Kigali is strategic location for tech hub

US software training organisation Andela is betting on East Africa as a strategic location from which to recruit and train software developers for top employers around the world….

Cape Town’s IT sector more than double that of Lagos, Nairobi combined – report

A new report has found that the greater Cape Town area, including Stellenbosch, employs more than double the number of people that Lagos and Nairobi do…

AlphaCode calls on black-owned fintech startups to apply to programme

Fintech incubator AlphaCode is on the hunt for black-owned fintech startups, as well as innovators with ideas that could change the face of financial services…

Expat founders have it easier than locals says Danish founder of Rwandan startup

Do expat tech founders that set up startups in Africa have it easier than their local counterparts when running their business? Expat and entrepreneur Olivia Zank,…

How football helped kick off Nigerian agritech startup Farmcrowdy

In just 18 months Nigerian agritech platform Farmcrowdy has grown to helping 7000 farmers on farm land across nine states in Nigeria to help fund the purchase…

Kenyan startup wins $50k grand prize in Visa Everywhere Initiative

Digital payments company Visa has selected Kenyan startup Mookh Africa as the overall winner of the inaugural edition of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Everywhere Initiative. Visa’s…

SA insurtech startup Pineapple to launch insurance product in activation on Friday [Updated]

After two years of development insurtech startup Pineapple is finally set to launch their insurance product — with the startup claiming today in a statement, to…

Andela partners with Rwandan govt to launch pan-African tech hub in Kigali

Andela, a talent accelerator that trains software developers and pairs them with top employers around the world, has announced that it is partnering with…

MyLifeline to put R200k prize money into marketing, setting up web presence

Days after winning the Santam Safety Ideas Challenge, Stellenbosch-based wearables startup MyLifeline will invest a portion of its R200 000 winnings in marketing and setting…

Wits aeronautical engineers win $10 000 prize in travel innovation challenge

Three Wits aeronautical engineering students Jules Ntumba, Tso Mello and Fiona Ndlovu have clinched a $10 000 prize in a travel innovation challenge run by UK-based SITA…

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