Women
Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource Passes On at 37
Samasource, a Nairobi and San Francisco-based AI training provider, has lost its founder and CEO Leila Janah, to a rare form...
Janngo unveils its €60m Janngo Capital Startup Fund for fintechs in Africa
Janngo has unveiled its 60€ million Janngo Capital Startup Fund to back technology startups founded, co-founded or benefiting women. Janngo...
Seedstars Global Winner to take home up to $500K from its 7th Global Summit
Seedstars, the emerging market startup community and investor, is officially announcing its global Seedstars Summit 2020. The 7th edition of...
Farmshine Raises USD 250,000 Funding from Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS
Farmshine, a Nairobi based agritech start-up that focuses on helping women subsistence farmers realize more income through smart ways has...
Automation’s transformative power will change banking
The banking industry on a global scale is currently leveraging off the concept of automation to drive growth and cost...
Bookings Africa, a Nigerian talent marketplace for creatives, raises funding & launches in Kenya
Bookings Africa, a Nigerian talent marketplace for creatives has launched in Kenya in a move expected to leverage technology to...
Rebecca Enonchong Elected New AfriLabs Board Chair
Rebecca Enonchong, founder and CEO of AppsTech, a provider of enterprise application solutions and chair of ActivSpaces, Cameroun was elected...
Why payroll is a function all SMEs should outsource
Regardless of your area of business activity or company size, dealing with employment issues may prove to be demanding task...
BRCK launches Moja, it’s free public Wi-Fi in South Africa
BRCK, a Nairobi-based hardware startup has launched Moja, it's free public Wi-Fi in South Africa in an expansion move aimed...
LifeBank launches drone deliveries, urged to focus on Nigeria
LifeBank, a medical sample and blood delivery startup has launched drone deliveries in a bid to help its partner institutions...
KampaBits Wins the 2019 Miss.Africa Digital Prize
KampaBits, a youth-based organization that exists to positively change the lives of vulnerable youth in Uganda has been named the...
Nigeria’s LifeBank Wins $250,000 from Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize 2019
Nigeria's LifeBank was last night declared winner of the Jack Ma Foundation Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) prize taking home...
RedViolet Company CEO on E-Commerce in Nigeria: The Good, The Bad & The Way Forward
As the founder and CEO of e-commerce firm RedViolet Company in Nigeria, I can testify how the internet has propelled...
Zumi, a lifestyle & fashion magazine which raised over $370,000 calls it a day
Zumi, a lifestyle and fashion magazine focused on the millennial generation has called it a day, and the founders are...
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...