Airsmat is a Nigerian startup that uses drones and satellite data in conjunction with AI to help farmers identify problems in their farm before they affect the yield in a planting season. Today, they joined Nvidia Inception, a program that nurtures startups involved with AI and data sciences.Airsmat is starting ...
Google Africa and the International Finance corporation (IFC) released a report that estimates that Africa's internet economy could be worth $180 billion by the year 2025. This figure would represent 5.2% of the total gross domestic product (GDP) of the entire continent. According to the report, the main catalyst for ...
Paxful, one of the leading peer to peer crypto marketplaces, has joined with African financial services startup, Uhuru wallet. The wallet will become one of the listed methods of payment on the paxful platform, making it easier for South Africans and other neighboring regions to conduct trading. Uhuru wallet will ...
US-based Venture Capital firm, Aptive Capital, has invested into three early-stage African startups. In June 2020, the firm announced that it was taking applications to invest upto US$ 10,000 into eligible startups based in Africa. The investment is part of the firm's US$ 1 million portfolio fund. Founders of 500+ ...
TikTok has today partnered with The Gritti Fund, the world's first purpose-driven and happiness-focused investment fund to launch the innovative and daring Pitch Up in The Sky – the world’s first elevator pitching event of its kind for entrepreneurs. Pitch Up in The Sky is the ultimate elevator pitch for daring entrepreneurs who ...
Currently live in the UK with plans to open up in the US, Canada and the Continental Europe corridors in the nearest future, PayAngel says it's a simplified system of sending money home, fast, convenient and safe. Founded by Jones Amegbor, an African in the Diaspora with a unique understanding of the exact ...
Ghana's Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is now recruiting in Kenya, making it the third African country to start accepting applications, after doing so in Nigeria last year. Ekua Odoom, MD MEST Training Program announced in a blog post, “2014 was the first year that MEST recruited outside of ...
VC4Africa, a startup finance platform serving the fastest growing community of African entrepreneurs and investors, launches a new tool to promote partner opportunities to entrepreneur’s part of its community. Event organizers, competition organizers, corporations, foundations, accelerators, incubators, investment funds and other startup ecosystem players can now publish branded promo pages ...
Getting info on most campuses in Africa is an offline thing. You have to be on campus checking notice board to notice board. This might not be the best way of passing info especially in this internet age. A group university Students in Ghana have built a mobile application called ...
