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Egyptian gaming community GBarena lands seed funding from Cairo investor

Egyptian esports and gaming community GBarena has raised seed funding from Cairo-based investor HIMangel, the startup has revealed. The startup made the announcement in…

African tech startups raised over $1.2bn in funding in 2018 – Partech report

A report by French venture capital (VC) firm Partech Africa has found that 146 African tech startups raised $1.163-billion in equity funding last year…

Cairo-based GoodsMart announces second investment from Algebra Ventures

Cairo-based household shopping app GoodsMart today announced that it has secured its second investment from Egyptian venture capital (VC) firm Algebra Ventures. The deal…

Egyptian healthtech Vezeeta does it again with $1-million raise from the IFC [Updated]

Egyptian healthtech startup Vezeeta has raised a new, $1-million investment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of World Bank Group — less than…

Egyptian ride-hailing app Halan raises ‘multi-million’ dollar Series-A round

Egyptian startup Halan — Egypt and Sudan’s first motorcycle and tuktuk ride-hailing app — has announced that it landed an undisclosed Series A funding round from round co-led…

Entrepreneurship platform RiseUp to launch Egypt Startup Manifesto

Cairo-based entrepreneurship platform RiseUp will tomorrow (4 December) launch the Egypt Startup Manifesto, which aims to outline solutions to the challenges faced by Egyptian entrepreneurs. The launch takes…

Egyptian startup HitchHiker secures $200k round from Dubai-based angels

Cairo-based peer-to-peer international shipping startup HitchHiker has announced that it has secured $200 000 in a round of funding led by Dubai based angel…

Physics, healthcare and imagination: meet Africa’s future

Every year, Microsoft asks university students to imagine what they could do with technology through its Imagine Cup competition — a skills-based challenge comprised…

Rockefeller Foundation pumping $100 million into Africa’s digital scene

Africa is where it is at and its digital/tech scene is all the rage. Bigwigs are noticing the continent. The latest group to take…

A look at some of Africa’s hottest startup incubators

Although investment in Africa has traditionally focused on commodities rather than technologies, the explosion of mobile usage has opened up opportunities for small-business development….

Remember plus codes? Google’s now making them easier to use

Netflix experimenting with ‘partial download’ playback feature

Trump rages at Twitter after social network fact-checks tweet

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [29/05/2020]

SA founded water drone startup Ranmarine Technology lands Series-A investment

Sandras Phiri bids farewell to Startup Grind Cape Town

Huawei P40 lite vs iPhone SE 2020: which should you buy? [Sponsored]

Vivo to bring new Y series phones to SA in July, 5G device before year-end

This is Samsung’s ‘Tactical Edition’ of the Galaxy S20

The new BMW 5 Series is now a high-performance hybrid

Updated Kia Picanto brings load of tech to South Africa

The C63 AMG and the case for AMG’s final V8-powered C-Class