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Team behind water saving solution wins special prize at blockchain hackathon

SudoTesla has been announced as one of the winners at the Unlock the Block blockchain Hackathon at an awards ceremony in Cape Town last…

Nigerian tech startup sector still up against challenges, say commentators

A few years ago, when startup founders and tech stakeholders were asked what was still missing in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem, they often began by detailing the lack…

AWEC calls for applications to women entrepreneur training programme

The African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC), a flagship initiative of US non-profit the Centre for Global Enterprise (CGE), has opened applications for its inaugural entrepreneur…

Tappit Africa: Quicket, Old School Group and UK’s tappit in new joint venture

Multi-brand sports group Old School Group and events ticketing startup Quicket have teamed up with a UK-based cashless payment solutions provider tappit to form a new joint…

MTN Solution Space opens applications for 2018 Venture Incubation Programme

Building Africa’s next innovative tech startup? The MTN Solution Space — an initiative of UCT’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) and MTN — is…

Startupbootcamp Cape Town, RCS Group to take on Day Zero with H2O Hackathon

Startupbootcamp Cape Town and financial services provider RCS Group have partnered to take on Cape Town’s water crisis with the H2O Hackathon set to be held…

EasyEquities puts startup crowdfunding offering ‘on hold until further notice’

Investment platform EasyEquities has put its crowdfunding startup investment offering, which was set to launch tomorrow (1 February), on hold until further notice. Purple Group vice-president…

Instant messenger 2go is targeting smartphones, hedging its bets, hiring

Ventureburn recently reported on 2go, the instant messaging startup that was seeing significant traction in Nigeria. The company attributed much of its success —…

Nokia and the Kenyan government team up to fund mobile startups

Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia has partnered with the government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board to work towards ensuring tech startups specialising in…

Valuation startup wins Tech4Africa’s Ignite competition

ValuationUP has won the top spot at Tech4Africa’s ignite startup competition. The competition is part of the annual conference that looks at tech innovation…

GoMetro and iROKING partner to bring free music to SA commuters

Man, mobi.lity is on a roll. First, the startup’s GoMetro service got picked up as the official traveller information system of commuter rail agency,…

Naspers snaps up online photography retailer SAcamera

Emerging markets internet and media giant Naspers has snapped up SAcamera, an independent online retailer that sells cameras and photographic equipment. According to Bandwidth…

Internet startups in South Africa: some home truths

Founders of South African startups are overwhelmingly white and male. And, for all the rumpus around the lack of access to VC in the…

With CellSchool Mxit flexes its muscles as an online teaching platform

Despite the recent turmoil at Mxit, it’s good to see the instant messaging service continuing to attract interest from companies involved in South Africa’s…

Journey: an astoundingly smart solution for building data-gathering mobile apps

In 2009, four guys based out of a dorm room in Stellenbosch started working on something quite extraordinary. It’s called Journey and it’s a…

Google for Entrepreneurs: a boon for emerging market startups

Google reckons there are about 400 million entrepreneurs out there in the world and it wants to see that number increase. The search giant…

5 Ghanaian startups recognised at inaugural TopApps Awards

Ghana, a strong West African tech startup region, played host to the first ever TopApps Awards ceremony, held in Accra last week. The ceremony…

Innovative competition sees startups compress a pitch into a tweet

Pitching your startup isn’t easy. You’ve got to be concise and able to say what you do and why you should be given funding…

Prepaid voucher business-in-a-box Nomanini raises series-A funding

Nomanini, the company behind the little orange device that empowers individuals to earn an income while selling prepaid vouchers, recently raised US$600 000 in…

2go: SA startup you’ve never heard of crushes Facebook in Nigeria

South African instant messaging startup 2go is getting some good traction in Nigeria. The company is reporting that it recently crossed the 10 million…

Meet the 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2012

The final 40 startups for the first ever DEMO Africa conference have been announced. The 40 entrepreneurs chosen for the conference have gone through…

75% of US startups fail says new study

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reveals that the number of startups that fail to return their investors’ capital, might be significantly…

Metrorail and mobi.lity launch Go Metro mobile information service

When Ventureburn wrote about mobi.lity earlier this year, we learned about its successful pitch to Western Cape transport agency, Metrorail, for its prototype railway…

Epson Survey Reveals Surge in Demand for Projectors as Home Cinema Trend Takes Off

Opera Mini Brings Free AI to South Africa, Tackling Data Costs and Boosting Digital Inclusion

HONOR X7c: Does This Budget Beast Deliver on Battery and That 108MP Camera?

Umvuzo Health Turns 21 with a Tech-Driven Medtech Model That’s Redefining Corporate Healthcare

Kazang Brings Card Payments to Spaza Shops, Driving Fintech-Fuelled Financial Inclusion

Flutterwave Launches Accelerate Workshop to Upskill Young Africans in Tech

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

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV