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. Memeburn...
View ArticleFabFi does fabulous things in Afghanistan and Kenya
Something interesting is happening in Afghanistan. It’s also happening in Kenya. I think that it is proof that it is possible to open the Internet to every developing country in the world. Back in...
View ArticleEast African startup accelerator gets international attention
East Africa has a new tech startup accelerator fund and it’s getting international attention. The Savannah Fund is a partnership between Mbwana Alliy, Paul Bragiel and iHub founder Erik Hersman and is...
View ArticleGoogle nestles in with Kenya’s 88mph, SA expansion planned
Looks like Google’s African startup footprint is about grow a little more. Kenyan startup accelerator 88mph has signed a partnership with the tech giant in a bid to ramp up its African expansion. The...
View ArticleAfrica rising: entrepreneurship now in vogue with students [Study]
Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. These days, every second person you meet doesn’t want to go find themselves in a temple in India or the snowy mountains of Nepal. No they want to start a company...
View ArticleProtecting your inventions: IP and the perceptions of Kenyan startups
Economies can lose billions of dollars due to piracy and IP infringement. Therefore, a country that values intellectual property (IP) can potentially create an excellent environment for IT innovation...
View ArticleKenya’s M-Shwari crosses Ksh1 billion in mobile banking transactions a month
Recent estimates put adoption for M-Pesa, Kenya’s wildly successul mobile payment service for the unbanked, at 17 million users. The service that allows users without bank accounts to complete simple...
View ArticleBuzzCity CEO on the rise and future of Africa’s mobile marketplace
Mobile in Africa is a well-documented juggernaut. In late 2012, Africa was well on its way to reach 750 million mobile subscribers and the number is expected to rise to one billion by 2015. Recent...
View ArticleBRCK: Ushahidi’s Kickstarter project designed to fix Africa’s internet issues
Leave it to the Kenyans to figure out a way to connect to the internet no matter where you are and without electricity. Currently attempting to raise a whooping US$125 000 on crowdfunding platform...
View ArticleRockefeller 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 interest in Africa is the Rockefeller Foundation, which announced a new...
View Article12 young African entrepreneurs who will blow your mind, seriously
What where you doing at 15? What about at 19? Or 22? If you are one of these 12 entrepreneurs, the answer is: changing the world. Each of them was chosen as part of the 2013 annual Anzisha Prize, an...
View ArticleThe East African startup landscape: everything you need to know
So we have told South African startups what’s what when it comes to the happenings of the country’s startup ecosystem. People have been asking us about other parts of Africa and if we could put...
View ArticlePata Cab brings smart cab-hailing to Nairobi, prevents excess fares
Hailing a cab can be tricky business. In a large city like New York, this is because the demand is so high for rides, in a place like Africa, there is the extra worry of being conned by taxi drivers —...
View ArticlePivot East heading back to Kenya for its 2014 run
The annual initiative brought to us by m:lab for the fourth time, Pivot East, is a mobile startup pitching competition and conference focusing on East Africa’s mobile developer and entrepreneurship...
View ArticleFrom iHub to the BRCK: how Ushahidi became an African success story
If you’ve spent more than a minute in the African tech scene, you’ve probably heard of Ushahidi — and the Kenyan team behind the non-profit software didn’t stop with its crisis mapping, crowd sourcing...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s bet on Africa grows with launch of youth gadget programme
We’ve written quite a bit about Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative which sees the software giant explore ways of linking the growth of its business to growth on the continent. The company is now throwing...
View ArticleWaabeh shows snapshot of Africa’s music streaming industry [infographic]
Online music streaming has been booming ever since iTunes was released more than a decade ago. With African content for Africans in mind, services such as Nigeria’s iRoking and Kenya’s Waabeh are...
View ArticleLighting up Kenya: M-KOPA Solar hits 60 000 users countrywide
Established in 2011 to end the dependency on kerosene lamps and fuel in Kenya, M-KOPA Solar, an innovative asset financing company that sells solar home systems to off grid households, on an affordable...
View ArticleMEF predicts major mobile growth in Africa, notes the rise of m-education
This week MEF, the global global community for mobile content and commerce, released the findings from the second phase of its African Growth Market Study. The survey, which covered Kenya, Nigeria and...
View ArticleLamudi boasts 250k property listings, celebrates growth with this infographic
Africa Internet Holding’s (AIH) online property listings brand Lamudi is six months old and now operates in 25 countries across Africa, Asia and South America. The company has released an infographic...
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