DerevaBuddy.com which was launched five years ago to end hooliganism on Kenyan roads did not survive to see the light…
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FundingInsiderStartups
Updated: Kenya’s SokoWatch, Hover & Rwanda’s Leaf raised funding from Catalyst Fund
In July 2018, Kenya’s SokoWatch, Hover, a USSD firm founded by KopoKopo’s Ben Lyon and Rwanda’s Leaf raised funding each…
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With the new funding, Zipline’s operations in both Ghana and Rwanda will increase the number of health facilities the company…
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InsiderStartups
New ‘Uber for trucks’ startup launches in Kenya to take on Sendy, Lori, Senga & Bwala
A new ‘Uber for trucks’ startup has launched in Kenya to take on Sendy, Lori Systems, Senga, and Bwalae in…
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Epesi Trip Planner, a web-based vehicle scheduling software that queues, routes, maps, and manages rides, drivers & conductors in real-time…
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I have only been back home in Kenya for only ten days and I am already filled with a deluge…
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Recruitment is going digital globally and firms that are not ready will be left behind as technology is becoming part…
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Beyond Capital Fund, an impact investment fund that invests in for-profit social enterprises throughout India and East Africa has made its second…
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Kenyan Internet Services provider, BRCK, has acquired its rival Surf, in a move that makes it one of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest…
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Ghana has recently launched the Presidential Pitch competition; a business idea competition that aims to expand the entrepreneurial climate in…
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InsiderStartups
With backing from Mahindra Group, Zoto wants to disrupt merchant payments, P2P transfers & other financial service categories
Zoto started off as a mobile recharge platform for the 70 million mobile internet users in Nigeria. Over the last…
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Africa has for years been lagging behind in more ways than one and has desperately tried to leapfrog into the…
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It has been a long while before Kenya warmed up to the blockchain, previously regarded with suspicion and relative hostility,…
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BusinessFundingInsider
Why native African investors are shying from backing local tech startups and why this should change
In May of 2000, The Economist in no subtle terms labeled Africa ‘The Hopeless Continent’. Making up its mind that…
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FundingInsiderStartupsTech
Doubts about the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative as expatriate-founders take over Kenya’s startup ecosystem
African tech startups raised $560 million in VC funding in 2017, a 53% YoY Growth according to a report by Partech…
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Fuzu is a Swahili verb meaning ‘to succeed’. Fuzu the company, is a Pan-African company that launched the Fuzu employment…
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Much as we would like to talk about the roses and daisies of the startup world, the funding rounds and…
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InsiderStartups
African entrepreneurs need to be obsessed with data & AI, says Cellulant’s R&D chief
2017 marked the launch of Jack Ma’s AliBaba Group eFounders initiative program, in partnership with United Nations Conference on Trade…
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Over the past few years Kenya and Nigeria have risen through the ranks in the technology space, booting South Africa…
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Over the past few weeks, cryptocurrencies, in particular, Bitcoin, has made headlines with its exponential growth, increasing its value by…
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BusinessInsiderStartups
Kenya’s Pesa Zetu entangled in a bitter feud with former employees over unpaid wages
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaKenya’s Pesa Zetu, a peer-to-peer lending startup is reportedly entangled in a bitter feud with former employees over unpaid wages…
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BusinessInsiderStartups
Angani co-founders officially fired | Business Back As Usual
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaThough hundreds of Angani clients are still offline, the firm has announced it has revived 95% of all their operations…
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This is a guest post written by Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng – the biggest hotel booking website in Nigeria.…
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InsiderStartupsTechWomen
CEO Weekends: Are incubators really necessary for entrepreneurs?
by Contributorby ContributorBy Yann LE BEUX – Catalyst CTIC Dakar It is not easy for most people to understand the daily job…
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A family is having a conversation after dinner. On national TV a respected business reporter is interviewing an octopus-like business…
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Flash backwards. The year is 2007. Kenya is the premier country globally to successfully pilot and launch mobile money transfers…
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BusinessInsiderTech
MIH Africa CEO Leaves | Naspers to Shut Down African Operations
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaNaspers/MIH Africa is reportedly planning to close down its African classifieds operations to allow the giant media group to focus…
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It’s a few past one in the morning. A man leaves a bar in Nairobi’s CBD to his car, parked…
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BusinessInsider
This Investment Firm Aims To Accelerate East African ICT Development Through New Infrastructure Fund
Convergence Partners, an investment management firm focused on the telecommunications, media and technology sector in Africa, today…
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InsiderObituariesStartups
PesaTalk To Close Shop | This Is What You Will Miss
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaPesaTalk, a Kenyan web news startup founded in March 2012 might close shop the end of this month if no…
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