The Anzisha Prize has revealed its top 20 finalists for 2020. The ultimate winners will be announced at this year’s Anzisha Prize Conference in October. This year, Anzisha is celebrating 10 years since it begun supporting very young entrepreneurs. The 2020 edition saw 1,200 applicants from various African countries. 20 ...
Silicon Valley Links (SV - Links) and Silicon Valley Nigeria Economic Development (SV – NED) in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassy in Washington D.C. are going to be hosting the first week-long immersion program in Silicon Valley with Nigerian executives. The programme will bring over 30 top Nigerian executives to participate ...
Online food delivery service in Nigeria has been in existence for quite some time now, but despite this, some parts of the country are still yet to enjoy it. One of these is Southern Nigeria. In December 2016, Isoko Walter decided to change that by launching Swift Delivery NG to ...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the selection of 1,000 African entrepreneurs, creating the 3rd cohort of the 10-year, $100 million TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The 1,000 entrepreneurs – a bulk of which are Nigerian but also includes strong representation from countries like Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Cameroon and South ...
Led by Equity Investment Bank as the lead transactional advisor and other transaction advisors, Kenya’s Empire Microsystems is set become the first ICT firm to list on the GEMS counter of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). This move, the firm says, will prepare it for the increasing ICT, Oil and ...
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Report (GEMGR) assesses the state of entrepreneurship in the world. The 2013 GEMGR report shows that there are proportionally more women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) than other world regions. In Ghana, 28% of women are entrepreneurs as compared to only 10% in the USA ...
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys the state of entrepreneurship in 70 countries, of which 11 are African. GEM data (2013), which measures yearly growth of a country’s entrepreneurial activities based on the number of new business ventures (more than 3 but less than 42 months old), shows that Nigeria, ...
In communities throughout Kenya countless individuals are doing tremendous deeds to serve the people they know and trust. According to UN Habitat, of the four million people who live in Nairobi, over 60% live in slums, 78% of which do not have running water in their homes. Many struggle ...
Heshan de Silva needs no introduction. He has been in press for both good and not so good reasons but the devout Christian says he is not stopping his good deeds to the businesses he has funded and the youth he mentors at church every week to ditch substance abuse ...
By Nguru Mugendi, Kenya has been dubbed the Sillicon Savannah; with good reason. From this small East African country, technologies that have and continue to change the world have been borne (I will spare you the nearly cliché M-PESA story) and investors have, over-time taken note and sunk in millions ...
VC4Africa has initiated a global conversation on African entrepreneurship in over 20 cities around the world as a part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013. The initiative will see VC4Africa members hosting informal networking drinks, bringing together local networks of entrepreneurs, angels and VC investors as well as individuals eager ...
