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Ghana fintech startup secures $700k investment

OZÉ a Ghana-based fintech startup has secured $700k in capital from a seed round with investment from Anorak Ventures and Matuca Sarl and angel investors including Nigeria’s Rising…

Ingressive Capital grows African tech fund to $10m

Lagos based venture capital (VC) fund Ingressive Capital has announced that it has doubled its investment fund to $10-million, to back high-growth, tech-enabled startups…

Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [09/02/2020]

This week Future Females will be launching its first workshop in Philippi Village, Cape Town, in partnership with the UK-SA Tech Hub on Wednesday…

Here are the 12 startups selected for Google Launchpad Africa’s fourth class

Google has announced the names of the 12 startups selected for the fourth cohort of its Launchpad Africa accelerator based in Lagos. They include…

Sub-Sahara Africa is top market for those that made Inclusive Fintech 50 list

Sub-Sahara Africa is the favoured region for top fintech companies aimed at improving financial inclusion to operate in, if the names of those listed…

Oze, Snode Technologies, WayaWaya each win $50k at MEST Africa Challenge final

Three African startups — Ghana’s Oze, Kenya’s WayaWaya and SA’s Snode Technologies — have each won $50 000 in equity investments at the MEST…

Fourth annual MEST Africa Summit to take place in Nairobi

MEST Africa has announced that the 2019 MEST Africa Summit will take place between 10 and 12 June in Nairobi, Kenya.

Meet the five finalists of the 2019 MEST Africa Challenge who will pitch for $50k

MEST Africa has announced the names of the five startups that will pitch at the 2019 MEST Africa Challenge finals in June for a…

Here are the 50 regional finalists of the 2019 MEST Africa Challenge

MEST, the Pan-African training programme, seed fund, incubator and hub for tech entrepreneurs in Africa, has announced the 50 regional finalists of this year’s…

SA startup Wala wins $100k Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion

SA fintech Wala has clinched the $100 000 grand prize in the 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prize is run by the Massachusetts Institute…

Here are the finalists of $100k Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship together with the Mastercard Foundation has announced the 10 African startups selected as finalists for this year’s…

Phase Two of COVID-19 vaccine rollout in South Africa to start on 17 May

The evolution of payments: Where small businesses can succeed [Sponsored]

The Coolest OG’s: SA game show to see elderly contestants compete for R100 000

Algebra Ventures launches $90-million fund to invest in startups

SU Techpreneurship programme connects students with tech internships

At any cost: The South African fraudsters who took the tech world for more than $40-million

Lil Nas X launches hellfire twerking game (NSFW)

New contract deals for Nintendo Switch announced

6 new Nokia smartphones announced across different price ranges

Toyota finally gives the 86 more power

Road test: The Isuzu D-Max 3.0 X-Rider

RS6 and S8 power-up Audi presence in South Africa

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