Mettā has selected 5 startups into its third fashion product lab cohort powered by HIVOS East Africa after a rigorous multi-phase selection process. Mettā Nairobi, in partnership with HIVOS East Africa,...
Read moreThe Cell C board has appointed Douglas Craigie Stevenson as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Craigie Stevenson was appointed as interim CEO in March this year. In a statement, Kuben...
Read moreSolaris Offgrid has received an R&D Grant from Efficiency for Access, with funding from UK Aid to work on a standardized ecosystem that facilitates the integration of Paygo devices with...
Read moreKobo360 Inc, an 'Uber' for trucks in Nigeria has raised a $6 million equity investment led by the IFC with participation from others including Silicon Valley investors WTI, YCombinator ,...
Read moreIn every country there are greater institutions of learning that produce the next entrepreneurs that change the world and just like Stanford University in California and Kenya is no exception....
Read moreImpressed with her ability to make a 3-minute animation film within just 10 hours during a competition, Seppan.com, a software company, offered then 13-year-old Sindhuja Rajaraman a job of chief...
Read moreImage:blog.elagaan.com Startups failure in Africa is mostly linked to lack of funding, space, mentorship and team's ability to execute but a number of hubs and accelerators...
Read moreVOIP service Skype hit another milestone of 280 Million users speaking for over 2 billion minutes a daily. Skype announced the good news on Wednesday. The 2 billion minutes can...
Read moreAga Khan The Aga Khan ‘His Highness’ the Aga Khan founded Nation Media Group (NMG) in 1960 to provide independent news in the years building up...
Read moreOry Orry Okolloh Currently Google Policy Manager for Africa, Okollo holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a graduate degree...
Read moreCall them Bigwigs as #KOT calls them, here are the top 5 tweeps worth following for informative, educative tech stuff in Kenya. @WhiteAfrican, Erik Hersman ...
Read moreY Combinator invests a small amount of money ($14-20k + an $80k note) in a large number of startups twice a year, since 2005 and have seen startups launch into...
Read moreNick at the launch of his app After acquisition of Summly by Yahoo today, Nick D’Aloisio at just 17 years joins the millionaire's club and becomes...
Read moreAfrica's startup ecosystem is growing and booming day by day leading to massive competition to for users, seed or VC money and clients for the benefit of the local users....
Read moreSince the launch of Twitter 7 years ago, today the company has grown to over 200 million active users with 400 million tweets being posted on daily basis. The company...
Read moreFounded in February 2005 and after 8 years in operation today YouTube announced it has hit a billion unique active users monthly since its launch. YouTube has been recording over...
Read moreFacebook is reportedly running a small test of a new notification that reminds users to post something to their profiles if they haven’t been active in a while, fast company...
Read moreImage:infosthetics.com Most startup founders dream to scale their ventures into millions and probably have a good exit. In Africa a few founders are on the brink...
Read moreAfter 3 intensive months of work, nine startups which were accepted into 88mph accelerator will pitch live Thursday April 25to potential investors at the accelerators Cape Town base, formerly the...
Read moreLaunching a startup is directly affected by the start-up ecosystem and there has been a vacuum on whom to learn from in Africa. There's no record of success or failures...
Read moreAre you hungry? Need food delivered to your doorstep? Yum.co.ke, a local Kenyan startup founded by Jake Goldberg and Mike Hudson from personal experience.They were disappointed with the few delivery...
Read moreThe most and widely talked Samsung Galaxy S4 launched yesterday. Samsung, a key rival of Apple is taking things to another level with the release of this new amazing phone....
Read moreDash2do, Kenya's Taskrabbit wants to do errands you don't have time for as you run your office, crib or party. The team told TechMoran they want to make sure busy...
Read moreMimiboard, a virtual notice boards built by SA's UmuntuMedia, a firm founded by Johan Nel have today announced a 27 million page views milestone. Speaking to TechMoran, Nel said," This expansion has...
Read moreTheStartupAngel accelerator programme is set to launch its first online accelerator programme in a move to help startups in Africa that have not yet received funding or not in incubators but with a...
Read moreA few weeks ago we covered one of the hottest startup in India, mYwindow.me which was only a few weeks old in the market. Now the startup is set to...
Read moreImage:warbaahiye.com It’s now a week after Kenyans went into historic elections to choose their leaders in an elections characterized long queues, manual voting and in some...
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