Women
Former Visa, Airtel Kenya exec launches Prosper, a personal development app
Prosper, is a new personal development app seeking to help the youthful and upwardly mobile professionals to improve their leadership and...
Startup Circles, An African Online Accelerator & Startup School Launches
Startup Circles, a new African online accelerator and startup school has launched to help entrepreneurs across the continent build and...
Celebrating Women in Engineering
For a long time in history, engineering was considered to be a man’s field with very few women. The image...
Ingressive Capital Doubles its Fund to $10M with Backing from Michael Seibel, Techstars etc
Ingressive Capital has doubled its investment vehicle to $10 Million USD from the previous $5m to back high-growth, tech-enabled startups...
Kenya’s MamaPrime & Uganda’s Teheca emerged winners at Sanofi’s AfricaTech challenges
Kenya’s MamaPrime and Uganda’s Teheca emerged winners at Sanofi's AfricaTech competition which was supposed to be part of the canceled...
Five women-led startups receive KSh 1million in seed funding from Standard Chartered Bank Kenya
Five women-led tech businesses have each received KSh 1million in seed funding from Standard Chartered Bank Kenya following successful completion of...
Sophos Appoints Sharon Evelyn Ombongi as Country Manager for Kenya
Sophos has appointed Sharon Evelyn Ombongi as country manager for Kenya to drive the company’s strategic business growth in the...
Safaricom’s Sanda Ojiambo appointed United Nations Global Compact Executive Director
Safaricom's Sanda Ojiambo has been appointed as the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) the worlds largest...
Alitheia IDF raises $10M from Open Society to fuel women economic empowerment
Alitheia IDF has raised $10 million from Open Society to amplify women’s voices in economic empowerment. Alitheia IDF, says the...
Moringa School raises further funding from DOB Equity to boost learning during COVID-19
Moringa School has raised undisclosed funding from DOB Equity to provide remote on-line learning to equip students with the right...
4G Capital partners Turaco to bring micro health insurance to clients across Kenya
4G Capital has partnered with the insurtech firm Turaco to provide a micro health insurance package to its clients across...
Sumundi, Ghana’s retail management startup raises funding from GreenTec Capital
Sumundi, Ghana’s retail management startup raises funding from GreenTec Capital to help retailers manage, grow, and sustain their businesses. Sumundi’s...
GSMA Opens Applications for its Innovation Fund for Digital Inclusion
GSMA, the global association for mobile operators, has opened applications for the Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital...
KRA appoints Pamela Ahago as acting Commissioner for Customs and Border Control
Mrs Pamela Ahago has been appointed by KRA as the Acting Commissioner for Customs and Border Control (C&BC) effective 25th...
Okra, Africa’s API fintech “super-connector” raises $1m from TLcom Capital
Okra, Africa’s first API fintech “super-connector” has raised $1m from TLcom Capital in pre-seed fundraise to build the infrastructure for...
iHub’s Nekesa Were Appointed Executive Director at AfriLabs
iHub Director Nekesa Were has been appointed AfriLabs Interim Executive Director after a career spanning over 10 years in the...
Kenyan Universities Projects on COVID 19 Participate in The Global Grad Show, Dubai
Kenyan Universities Projects, Re-read Kenya and Rise up Africa Child are among Global Grad Show proposals to address the COVID-19...
SA’s SweepSouth launches fund to help domestic workers survive the COVID-19 lockdown
SweepSouth, a Cape Town-based online cleaning platform connecting domestic workers with employers, has launched a fund to help provide domestic workers...
MasterCard extends Girls4Tech program to Children, Teachers and Parents
Mastercard has extended access to its signature STEM curriculum, Girls4Tech, through a suite of new online, creative educational resources. The...
Hummingbird is raising $24M to back the most impactful tech startups across Africa
Hummingbird Impact, a for-profit and impact-driven tech venture fund launched recently by the Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB Canada) at...
Jack Ma’s $1.5M Africa Netpreneur Prize Open for Applications
The Jack Ma Foundation second edition of the “Africa’s Business Heroes” (ABH) prize competition is now open to African entrepreneurs...
Kenyan tech icon Ory Okolloh steps down from Omidyar Network
Ory Okolloh will be stepping down from Omidyar Group's Omidyar Network and Luminate Group where currently serves as Managing Director....
Kasha, a women-focused health eCommerce startup raises $1m from Finnfund
Kasha, an e-commerce platform improving women’s access to genuine health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa has secured $1...
Inside vivo Y series smartphones unveiled in Kenya
Vivo Y series smartphones include Y12, Y15 and Y17 come with a 89% screen-to-body ratio, AI Triple Camera to the Magical Color Fusion design, and...
Mastercard’s Girls4Tech 2020 aims to address tech skills gap among Kenyan women
Mastercard recently launched its first 2020 Girls4Tech programme in Kenya attended by 68 girls aged between nine and 12. Girls4Tech attendees will...
Tanzania’s WomenChoice Industries Secures $ 200,000 from Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS
Tanzania's WomenChoice Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of low-cost, affordable menstrual hygiene management (MHM) reusable sanitary towels has raised $200,000 from...
Remote working, collaboration and raising capital in a time of Coronavirus
South Africa is facing a coronavirus pandemic which is having severe social and economic consequences, and sooner than later the economic shock...
Flutterwave announces grants for female SME owners in 5 African Countries
Female SME owners in five African countries have been awarded an international women's day grants from a San Francisco and...
Kenya’s Lily Health & Oky among 6 startups selected into Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator
Kenya's Lily Health & Oky are among the 6 startups selected in the Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator which was launched in...
CiTi’s Women in Business programme Opens for Western Cape Women Entrepreneurs
CiTi's Women in Business programme, now in its third year has opened for Western Cape Women Entrepreneurs from February 2020....