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European Investment Bank launches SheInvest, a 1 billion EUR fund focused on women
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has launched SheInvest, a new initiative to boost gender equality and female economic empowerment. The...
Enda, a Kenyan athletic shoe startup raises funding to become Africa’s Nike
Enda, the first high-performance running footwear brand made in Africa, has raised a seed funding round to support its production,...
This Hackathon Tackling Gender-Based Violence Through Tech Is Giving Out Over R45,000 in Prizes
Hackathons for South Africa: Digital Solutions for Real World Challenges is the first of the four hackathons taking place in...
Women Enterprise Fund Disburses Ksh 11 Million to Women Entrepreneurs
Women Enterprise Fund has disbursed Ksh 11 million to fifty-eight women groups in Migori County in the last two months. ...
TLcom wants to help Africa’s female tech founders break the glass ceiling
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, wants to build a collaborative network of Africa’s female tech founders. To get...
Startupbootcamp AfriTech selects top 10 African startups for its 2019 pitch
Startupbootcamp AfriTech 2019 Demo Day has selected top ten startups to pitch for its third edition of the SBC AfriTech...
Wefarm raises $13 million to scale its smallholder farmer marketplace
Wefarm, a Nairobi and London-based startup digital network for small-scale farmers, has raised $13 million in a Series A financing...
Water Access Rwanda providing clean & safe water for low-income earners
Water Access Rwanda (Warwanda) seeks to eradicate water issues by providing clean and safe water for low-income earners in Rwanda....
21-year-old Yannick Kimanuka from DRC grabs $25K for winning the 2019 Anzisha Prize
Yannick Kimanuka, a 21-year-old from the Democratic Republic of Congo has been crowned winner of the 2019 Anzisha Prize for...
Women Enterprise Fund collaborating with KEBS to support women-led SMEs
Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) is collaborating with Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and other organizations to provide support for women...
Catalyst Fund receives £10 million to invest in African-fintech startups
The Catalyst Fund, has received £10 million UK Aid from the Lord Mayor of the City of London Peter Estlin...
Tia Organics produces cosmetics that are good for hair, skin & the environment
Tia Organics, founded by Portia Kampota- Munhuweyi, is a Zimbabwean startup producing organic cosmetic products that are not only good...
Microsoft partners SheHacks to help women thrive in tech
Microsoft, through the Cloud and AI Security Engineering team has partnered with SheHacks, women STEM-focused annual festival, to encourage more...
The Future of Work – Are Robots the key to reducing unemployment?
With the rise of robots, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), the employees of today are in panic mode...
Maktaba Mashinani wants to launch mobile libraries across Kenya, with your help
Maktaba Mashinani wants to launch mobile libraries across Kenya, and the startup needs your help. Maktaba Mashinani, Swahili and slang...
Raye7, Egypt’s carpooling startup wants to bring sanity to Cairo’s roads
Raye7, Egypt's carpooling founded by siblings Samira and Ahmed Negm wants to bring sanity to Cairo's roads by connecting city...
E-farms, a woman-led crowdfunding site for Nigerian farmers
E-farms, a woman-led crowdfunding platform for Nigerian farmers, knows there are other platforms in Nigeria such as FarmCrowdy, ThriveAgric, Farmkart,...
Pitch AgriHack awards over £60K into African innovators transforming Agriculture
Pitch AgriHack, a competition organised by CTA to support young agricultural entrepreneurs (agripreneurs), has awarded over £60,000 to several startups...
Sesi Technologies & Maungo Craft win the $100K GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize
Sesi Technologies and Maungo Craft have been named winners of the inaugural $100,000 Generation Africa GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, a new...
Village Capital Agriculture Africa 2019 program startups unveiled
Village Capital Agriculture Africa 2019 program has announced startups that paricipated in this year's program which was focused on solutions...
Apple Cycle Tracking: How the new period-tracking feature will work in iOS 13 & WatchOS 6
Apple in early June this year announced plans to launch a new period-tracking app known as Cycle Tracking that will...
Standard Chartered to invest $193k into 20 women-led tech startups
Standard Chartered and Strathmore University @iBizAfrica have announced a call for applications for the Women in tech incubator cohort three...
Omidyar’s Luminate launches a $1m media lab to fund journalism in Kenya
Omidyar Group's Luminate is investing $1m to launch a dedicated hub for journalists, publishers and media entrepreneurs dubbed the Baraza...
Women in Tech Week 2019 to hold in Ghana this October
Women in Tech Week 2019 is set for October this year in Ghana to allow women in technology spaces in...
ShopIT, Wakulima & ExportUnity named winners of Nestlé innovation challenge
ShopIT, ExportUnity and Wakulima from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, have been named winners of the Nestlé Research and...
Accion Venture Lab Launches New $23M Fund for Fintech Startups
Accion has announced that its seed-stage investment arm Accion Venture Lab is adding $33M to its initial capital pool, with the launch...
Mastercard unveils Young Africa Works to give jobs to youths in Ghana
The Mastercard Foundation has launched Young Africa Works in Ghana, to enable three million young people to access dignified and...
Kobo360 officially launches in Kenya with over 3000 registered trucks
Kobo360, the IFC-backed African e-Logistics startup has officially launched in Nairobi, Kenya after five months of running a beta operation...
Here are the 2019 Open Internet Leaders
Open internet leaders are advocates passionate about protecting and promoting an open internet and working in media, civil society and...
Communications Authority appoints Mercy Wanjau as Acting Director-General as Wangusi leaves
Communications Authority of Kenya, the telecoms regulatory body, has appointed Mercy Wanjau as Acting Director-General effective today as Francis Wangusi's...