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Demo Africa Tour: Meet the four startups selected at Casablanca, Lagos events

Moroccan healthtech startup MolDiag, and three Nigerian startups: Accounteer, E-pump and Termii have been selected as winners at two DEMO Africa tour events held in…

AFD to invest R14.5m in Tshimologong’s new Digital Content Hub

In its first investment in digital innovation in South Africa, the French Development Agency (AFD) will next week sign a three-year €950 000 (R14.5-million) grant to…

Liquid Telecom to provide AfriLabs hubs with services in new partnership

Communications services and solutions provider Liquid Telecom has partnered with AfriLabs, a pan-African network of 100 tech innovation hubs across 30 countries, to provide…

Look who qualifies for critical skills work permit in South Africa now

The starting point when bringing in a foreign specialist into your business is the Critical Skills List, which notes the professions where Home Affairs…

Unicef to provide drone startups with up to $100k zero-equity funding

Are you running a drone startup and are looking for funding? Unicef, through its Innovation Fund, is looking to make up to $100 000…

Rental startup GetHosted, rewards app Loyal1 win Jozi leg of DEMO Africa tour

Space rental startup GetHosted and end-to-end rewards application Loyal1 have been selected as the winners of the Johannesburg leg of the DEMO Africa tour….

Meet the African entrepreneurs who took part in Jack Ma’s eFounders Fellowship

Just days after attending a 11-day training programme run by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Chadian tech entrepreneur Andreas Koumato says he’s learnt to look at his…

Tiphub hosts inaugural Diaspora Demo Pitch Competition

Tiphub, the mentorship-driven accelerator and business consultancy that develops and supports seed-stage technology and social impact ventures within the African diaspora, has announced its…

Global business e-registration portal hopes to boost startup growth in Africa

This is pretty awesome. Time and time again we have written about how business registration and red tape are some of the key obstacles…

The Launchlab Pitching Den names its 5 startup finalists

Part of Stellenbosch University’s Innovus, The Launchlab accelerator and hub for entrepreneurs has just concluded with this year’s Pitching Den which saw tens of…

Silicon Cape gets over R3m in funding from FNB, big changes to come

South African-based entrepreneurial initiative Silicon Cape has just announced that it has received more than R3-million worth of funding from First National Bank (FNB)….

Rwanda’s Think reveals 4 promising African startups for acceleration

Rwanda’s Think accelerator (brought to the world by mobile network operators Tigo and Millicom), earlier this year called for applications to fill its first…

SweepSouth sweeps up award at SiMODiSA StartupSA

StartupSA by SiMODiSA saw on-demand cleaning service SweepSouth named the winner of the conference’s Get-Up Start-Up pitch awards last week. Apart from the food, drinks…

SnappBox from Snapplify enables rural schools to embrace ebooks

Ebooks distribution platform Snapplify is venturing into rural areas with the SnappBox distribution hardware solution. The hardware is built especially for rural schools that do…

Wallettec integrates BitPay for bitcoin PoS integration of SA merchants

South African Point of Sale (PoS) startup Walletec has announced that it has integrated global bitcoin payment service, BitPay, in an attempt to grow…

Mapped in Cape Town gives us insightful snapshot of city’s startup scene

This week Mapped in Cape Town– an initiative aimed at mapping the startup ecosystem in Cape Town — went live. The map is not…

Property management startup PropCare secures R300k on Dragons’ Den

After pitching to a panel of renowned judges, South African property management startup PropCare has secured a R300 000 funding round from the investors…

SA’s edtech startup Brighter Futures offers online math tuition for R50

South Africa’s elearning startup space is growing bigger (and brighter) by the day. Recently launched online tutoring service Brighter Futures joins the race to…

M4JAM’s next big project? Crowdsourcing recycling

A little while back we told you about M4JAM, a new microjobbing play looking to make the most of South Africa’s massive mobile penetration…

Here are the 10 finalists to pitch at SiMODiSA Startup South Africa

Flying the banner “Get-Up Start-Up”, South African entrepreneurial initiative SiMODiSA will see ten savvy startups pitch at its conference this week Friday. With an…

GoMetro relaunches as SA’s social network of transport

In celebration of National Transportation Month in South Africa, data and transport startup GoMetro relaunched this week. Apart from the additional social elements, the…

Uber is bringing its enterprise-like offering to Africa, meet Uber for Business

Uber is shaking things up with its latest offering Uber for Business. The enterprise space is hotly contested right now and everyone’s favourite private…

Microsoft awards 7 more African startups with Innovation Grants

Microsoft 4Afrika has announced the second round of startups that will have access to the tech giant’s Innovation’s Grant, the latest in a series…

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

MTN MoMo’s R10-a-Day Smartphone Offer Aims to Bridge South Africa’s Digital Divide

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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