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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....
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...