BRCK in March announced Moja, a free public WiFi project for smartphone users in Kenya. The service is finally live in a number of areas in Nairobi, Kenya's capital and has signed up partners Facebook and Vanu for similar trials in rural Rwanda. Moja was announced sometime back in Kenya and is ...
Invested Development's Miguel Granier has completed the acquisition of iHub Limited and Gearbox via investment firm BSP Fund LLC as the space for techies starts a new life under new owners. The deal was announced in March awaiting regulatory approval by the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK). iHub announced the ...
Kenya's BRCK has launched SupaBRCK,a connected rugged microserver powered by a dual core Intel 64-BIT processor with a up to 5TB of hard drive space and a 10-hour onboard battery life. SupaBRCK also comes with 3 SIM card slots for 4G LTE and 3G connectivity and a content delivery network ...
Now in its 3rd year, with investments in over 20 startups in 6 African countries, African-focused Savannah Fund has announced its 4th Accelerator class consisting of financial services/fintech, marketing and ecommerce, bitcoin and B2B startups. Selected from over 150 applications from across Africa, the successful startups include Bitfinance, Djuaji, Forex ...
We have no gifts for John Kieti but we know his work speaks for itself locally and internationally. But good things and moments never last forever. Kieti, who has been the lead at m:lab East Africa has announced he will be leaving the consortium, made popular by its annual Pivot East ...
Kenya's BRCK, an internet generator for remote areas has been named among the top Education finalists battling to win $1 million and work with Verizon to turn their idea into a reality. BRCK, aims to allow teachers and students access the web in the classroom regardless of their location, internet ...
Set to ship this April, the Internet backup generator, BRCK, will be used in Africa's classrooms however remote to help provide stable internet to complement learning in schools in Africa. Announcing the development today via his Instagram account, Erik Hersman, CEO at BRCK said, "The @BRCKnet in a classroom. We ...
Hersman, working from nowhere with his BRCK.img-techpresident iHub's Internet backup generator, BRCK, is set to ship this April if all goes well as planned by the team according to latest information obtained by TechMoran. Erik Hersman, writing today in a blog post said: "Assuming all of ...
Startups admitted into Savannah Fund's second accelerator class are set to DEMO late this month to an audience of investors and eCommerce lovers at the Afrikoin event November 20th at iHub. The Africa-focused seed investment firm in September this year admitted the four startups from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and ...
Mbana, Joyce and Jed with Savannah's 2nd accelerator class Africa-focused seed investment firm, Savannah Fund has announced its second batch of startups. The fund gave the four startups from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Kenya $25,000 each to develop their business. The four startups were selected from ...
Kenya's Erik Hersman, co-founder of iHub, Ushahidi and BRCK with the entire iHub team and community will soon launch Gearbox, a hub for developers in Kenya to learn hardware and build things. Gearbox will be a "makerspace", a huge room full of equipment that allows members to do rapid prototyping ...
The Kenyan government might be all over the world creating friendships, borrowing billions of shillings from China and trying to make more revenue at home through excise duties and taxes but analysts say its short-term thinking is fizzling innovation by the roots. Erik Hersman, co-founder at iHub and Ushahidi speaking to ...
