Advanced IT Solutions Limited emerged top of the DEMO Africa Kenyan innovation tour challenge held in MasterCard Labs Nairobi. Out of a passion to bring back independence to the visually impaired the team showcased Alex a walking stick imbedded with GPS and proximity sensors to support the blind with navigation. ...
TIFAT a farm technology that connects farmers to a buyer’s marketplace emerged the winner of the DEMO Africa Uganda Innovation Tour. Tifat beat a field of more than 15 other startups from Uganda in a two-round contest at the Hive Collab in Kampala. 30 start-ups participated and they all came ...
DEMO Africa 2018 will be held in Morocco and will see the top 30 start-ups launch their products in front of investors, technology buyers, mentors and the media according to our sources at DEMO Africa Secretariat. Founded in 2012, DEMO Africa allows selected startups to pitch to a diverse set ...
DEMO Africa has unveiled the five top companies from its 2017 startup competition held on November 23rd and 24th in Johannesburg, South Africa. Speaking to TechMoran, Harry Hare, DEMO Africa Director said the 5 Lions include Morocco's SOS Sante, Nigeria's Versecom, South Africa's Rooster and Kenya's M-Post and Zoa. Harry added that this year ...
DEMO Africa has shortlisted 35 startups out of over 900 startups from across Africa to undergo the final vetting to pitch at this year’s launch event in Johannesburg, South Africa. “We received a total of 956 applications this year, which is about 20% more than last year,” said Harry Hare, ...
Kenya Strauss Energy, Nigeria's Solstice and South Africa's Sortd, ConnectMed & MediaBox have been declared winners of the 5th edition of DEMO Africa concluded last Friday. The five 5 startup will benefit from the DEMO Africa LIONS programme, a partnership between DEMO Africa and the [email protected] initiative that curates a 2-week Innovation ...
Bitcoin Foundation director Llew Claasen is among Top African VC's & entrepreneurs set to speak at DEMO Africa 2016 raising speculations he might champion for the adoption of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on the continent. The Bitcoin Foundation is the oldest and largest industry group focused on Bitcoin and ...
The world is reading about the promising startup scene in Africa, and you could be just another reader too and doing nothing about growing the ecosystem. Ingressive, a group of investors has organized a tour into the continent's tech scene and wants to bring you along. Ingressive is offering interested ...
Ghana's Flippy Campus, a university news and info portal keeping students up to date on current campus happenings via its Flippy Campus channels has won itself a place at the DEMO Africa 2015 set to take place in Lagos this September. Flippy Campus allows students to follow campus events from ...
Collins Onuegbu, member of Lagos Angel Network (LAN), who attended the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) conference in Eindhoven, Holland alongside Tomi Davies, president of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), said EBAN is committed to the support of the development of the African angel community. “Our attendance was to ...
The application deadline for DEMO Africa 2015 has been extended for a month and the new deadline has been set for June 30 2015. In a statement, Ben White Co-founder and CEO, VC4Africa said, “It’s important to connect with innovators from all corners of the continent. It’s great these regional ...
Organisers of DEMO Africa today announced they will be holding four mini-events ahead of the main event in September. The events are intended to bring together regional technology eco-systems to learn and share from peers and industry players. The events are also aimed at encouraging innovations in less favored categories ...
Lagos , Nigeria will play host to this year’s highly anticipated startup conference DEMO Africa and with it comes the African Business Angel Network jointly presented by DEMO Africa and VC4Africa. This was announced Thursday, May 7, at the 2015 Annual Conference of The European Trade Association for Business Angels, ...
Africa's startup launchpad, DEMO Africa has announced that the application process for 2015 is now open and entrepreneurs can apply from now. Like last years', the application process will be hosted by DEMO Africa’s partner VC4Africa and the application window is open from today and will remain open throughout March, ...
In a move to bolster entrepreneurial talent in Africa and to help the youth to develop innovative solutions on the continent by making best use of the power of mobile technology, MTN Group, SAP and Microsoft have announced they will financially support AMPION's 2014 operations. Free hardware and bandwidth granted ...
Jifunza (Rwanda), Nerve (Nigeria), Paysail (Ghana), Chura (Kenya) and Spacepointe (Nigeria are the five startups chosen to represent Africa at DEMO US. The US State Department through the [email protected] partnership will sponsor the five for the ten-day trip as a way of thumping their support for entrepreneurship in Africa. The ...
After an Investor Summit hosted by venture capital community VC4Africa September 24th, at the DEMO Africa 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria, angel investor networks from across Africa are pondering how to work together in a pan-African Business Angel Network. The investors discussed “The Future of Angel Investing in Africa” with a ...
Microsoft Corporation has taken up platinum sponsorship for this year’s edition of DEMO Africa that will be held later in the month, in Lagos, Nigeria. The company will participate in the event for the 3rd time under the Microsoft 4Afrika initiative. The sponsorship will see Microsoft offer financial support for ...
The U.S Department of State and the U.S. Africa Development Foundation (USADF) will support selected Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) entrepreneurs to attend and participate in the DEMO Africa 2014 conference according to an announcement made at a gathering of 500 Young African leaders, a forum that was addressed by the ...
Africa's the Pearl Dream, Inc is currently raising a 1.5 million dollar equity round to create more authentic digital content for its customers and bring critical team players on board. "So far we have been bootstrapping, but we are currently raising a 1.5 million dollar equity round to create more ...
Malaria is still the most dangerous diseases in the world, killing as twice as many people as AIDS, with an estimated four million deaths a year. Not only does malaria kill a child every 60 seconds, it causes miscarriages and also reduces the ability of people's producivity, but it seems ...
Nigeria's Cribpark.com is an online shop set to sell everything needed in the house, from furniture, rugs, appliances and even services such as painters and home movers so you enjoy your stay in your new house, or move into a new one with ease. Apart from its online store, the ...
A new agreement between DEMO Africa and AMPION Venture Bus will see the best start up team that emerges from the Venture bus pitch at the opening session of DEMO Africa 2014 in a move that will set this years launchpad apart from the rest. According to DEMO Africa’s event ...
Founded early 2013, in Cairo, Egypt’s TrafficBytes, is an M2M cellular-based roads traffic management system that allows mobile operators and telecom vendors to leverage their cellular infrastructure and provide real-time accurate roads traffic information. The startup aims to transform existing big data at mobile operators related to cellular events like ...
Image:outofthebags.com Founded in 2011, Cameroon's Adelrick has combined AI and GSM technologies to create MuZik, a value-added service, which make mobile phone subscriber’s life more easier, by providing the right music or information , automatically grabbed on Internet, for feature mobile phone (without data plan) first, ...
Global payment providers and remittance companies make it difficult for Sub-Saharan Africans to send and receive money. The explicit blacklisting of entire African countries by firms such as PayPal and exorbitant remittance fees by the likes of WesternUnion, MoneyGram among others stifle economic development in this region. With USD 50’000 ...
Kenya's Chura, Swahili name for Frog, an Airtime for Cash Service signifying the transition in leaping from one mobile network to another is set to launch a USSD platform to change the status quo, especially in a country where mobile money interoperability has failed to work. "We plan on rolling ...
DEMO Africa has announced the 40 best tech startups that will take part in the competition in September this year with Nigeria taking the lion’s share followed by Kenya, Ghana and Egypt. Other African countries to be represented are Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa which have two start ups each and ...
After extending its application window open for one more week from Sunday June 15 to Sunday June 22, 2014 following numerous requests by start-ups to have more time to meet its demands, DEMO Africa has today unveilled the whole list of judges who will select its final 40. The jurists ...
IMG:Innovationpop.com Flash backwards. The year is 2007. Kenya is the premier country, globally to successfully pilot and launch mobile money transfers via (Vodacom) Safaricom’s M-PESA. This could be probably due to the failure of courier services, lack of access to banking services by folks in rural ...
