German investment group, GreenTec Capital Partners, has invested an undisclosed amount into Cameroonian agri-tech startup, Freshbag. Freshbag is a digital platform that connects farmers to vendors in a bid to ensure a fair and reliable food supply network. Freshbag buys produce from farmers at fair rates and dispatches the produce ...
Founded by Etang EGBE Founder, Shoppote, a shopping platform based in Cameroon aims to bridge the gap between digital consumers and offline retailers. The product discovery platform helps consumers have a virtual access to on-shelf products and offers in real-time and has now registered 200+ offline retail partner stores across the cities ...
Bongalo Inc. is Cameroon’s largest property search portal listing houses, flats, vacant land and farms from the country's top estate agents and landlords to help them market their properties to buy or rent. Founded by Ndahing Pijenda and Achu Normad, Bongalo aims to be the countries largest database of private property for ...
Entrepreneurs and startup founders face a whole lot of problems with their business. One very pronounced one is the issue of capital/funding. In this present day, it is quite hard for a new founder to get the required capital for his/her business. This is exactly where Guanxi Invest comes in. ...
Kamerbigbang. A startup founded by Angele Messa leveraging technology to improve the Education sector in Cameroon. The unemployment rate in the country, as in other African countries is very high. According to Angele, it was what informed the launch of the startup. Kamerbigbang helps Cameroonian youths to NOT depend on ...
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes is coming for the very first time to Cameroon. With the support of ActivSpaces and regional partners Enel, Merck, Orange and Microsoft 4Afrika, Seedstars World will be holding a dynamic pitch event on September 29th at ActivSpaces. Cameroon ...
Medx.care is a digital hospital offering a CASH2HEALTH services to empower families across the emerging countries, with initial focus on Africa. Speaking to TechMoran, Patricia Monthe said the platform is an end-to-end, one-stop-shop covering a wide variety of healthcare services ( from self-care to primary, secondary and tertiary care in ...
WorldRemit, a global digital remittance service has signed up new partnerships with MTN Mobile Money, Express Union and Banque Atlantique to ensure that people in Cameroon can choose to receive remittances in a way that suits them – turbocharging Mobile Money transfers and adding nearly 700 cash pick-up locations throughout the ...
Aiming to support the Cameroonian startups, helping them to grow and transform their ideas into real business, African Center for Technology, Innovation and Ventures Spaces (ActivSpaces) in association with the Cameroon Angel Network (CAN) are organizing the second edition of "PITCH DAY 237",an annual contest that gives the opportunity to ...
Cameroon's Feem, a WiFi file transfer has hit 100, ooo doanloads on the Google Play Store just few days after the firm released an updated version in a move to simplify peer-to-peer file sharing in the country. In a tweet, Fritz Ekwoge Ekwoge CEO FeePerfect the firm behind the app ...
Cameroon's ActivSpaces gives technology startups office space, internet, mentorship and financing while the Cameroon Angels Network (CAN) is Cameroon's first network of angel investors and invests in all sectors and industries with a particular interest in technology. Read more here.
Jumia, one of Africa’s top e-commerce sites, has launched full-fledged e-retail services in Cameroon. This follows recent successful launches in Ghana and Uganda, thus taking the total number of African countries that have the online retailer active to nine. Cameroonians have a strong purchasing power and are more and more ...
As of June 2013, 98 million (48%) of the 203 million registered mobile money accounts globally were in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) - East Africa holding the lion's share of SSA’s total and accounting for 34% of the global total. In addition, 9 African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Cameroon have ...
Rocket Internet's auto classified site Carmudi, has launched in Ghana, some six months after it set foot in Lagos Nigeria last year as it's first African city and then Cameroon as the second. The online auto marketplace is expecting to take on Cheki Ghana, a One Africa Media company already ...
Hon Biyiti Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam, Cameroonian Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications has said the country is working on establishing Internet access points in the country in a move to cut costs involved in the transit through foreign networks which a government study estimated ...
Known for Kenya's political satire, the XYZ show, Buni TV has released the story of renowned Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s THE PRESIDENT: “How Do You Know It’s Time to Go?” . The film clearly refers to the country’s real-life leader Paul Biya, who has been the President of Cameroon since ...
Cameroon's bus ticketing startup, QuickTicket beta is set to launch its services across Africa and into other emerging markets. According to Acha Nelson, co-founder QuickTicket, "We want to raise funds to complete the final stage of development, test the application deploy with some bus companies to make sure it s ...
