5 startups have been selected to participate in the iHub Fellowship (iFellowship) Acceleration program giving them an opportunity for mentorship to grow their ideas into fully-fledged businesses. iFellowship gave a call for applications in December last year and saw more than 180 innovators apply. Out of the 180, 30 entrepreneurs were ...
iHub and World Bank-backed Traction Camp accelerator program has began accepting applications for the second cohort. The program supports growth-oriented startups in scaling their business through a tailor-made acceleration process designed to take businesses through a rapid-cycle competitive curriculum and matches them quickly to appropriate business mentor and capital. Startups ...
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 ...
iHub and the World Bank Group will host a one-week intensive boot camp in Nairobi, a part of a business acceleration program to help East African tech start-ups commercialize and scale innovative digital products. The Traction Camp accelerator launched six months ago by iHub and the World Bank Group’s infoDev ...
Office, co-working and event space provider Nairobi Garage has moved to a 33,000sqft premise as demand for shared offices skyrockets in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy. Now taking up three floors of an entire office development, the new Nairobi Garage is located on Ngong Road's Pinetree Plaza, just a ...
iHub has been a leading force in innovation in Kenya. It has provided an incubator and hacker space for people with creative minds since its inception in 2010. Over the years it has expanded into m:lab, UX Lab, Gearbox and iHub Research. Today, iHub got a new managing director, her ...
The exit of Kama Bhattacharya from iHub will come as a surprise or shock to the employees and stakeholders in the startup/tech industry of one of Nairobi's leading innovation hub because he was quoted to have said 'I am not leaving' Bhattacharya said in chat: "I am not leaving. First ...
Nailab Seed Limited, an angel fund founded by Nailab and Fair & Sustainable Participations is calling for applications for startups to apply and stand a chance to raise Ksh 2.5m. According to the firm, the investment will be a convertible note of up to KES 2.5M, with a maturity of ...
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 ...
iHub, which has been looking for a new home to pursue its new found dreams, will be taking the 5th and 6th floors of the newly finished Senteu Plaza located on the corner of Lenana and Galana Road in Kilimani, Nairobi nearly one to two kilometers away from its present ...
iHub's new CEO Dr. Kamal Bhattacharya says his new focus as CEO is to understand the organizations customers and provide value to them as the firm moves to commercialization. "We have access to very good skills, and we have the right regional experience. This is our position of strength.Our goal is ...
I kid you not; I had come up with the exact same concept for a mobile application that recently won the +254 Rising Entrepreneurship Competition, shame on me for not taking action to implement it when I had the chance. Deliverus is the startup that took home the winning trophy ...
If you didn’t know, +254 Rising is a startup pitch competition in Nairobi designed to support the next generation of innovative Kenyan startups. Today, five teams of talented young Kenyan entrepreneurs will compete in an intense pitch competition to imagine new mobile products, tools and services that could form the ...
Pivot East, East Africa’s mobile startups pitching competition held annually in June or July since 2011 has been moved to November this year and more details about the date change will be communicated in due time m:lab's East Africa lead told TechMoran. The m:lab East Africa initiative aims to ...
iHub has announced it’s raising funding to fuel its growth, add new service offerings and turn profitable, almost six years since it was launched. “First and foremost we recognize the need to make sure that we are 100% self-funded, which means running a productive and more efficient set of consulting ...
Image:kristiholl.net Washington DC area tech incubator and seed fund 1776 has acquired Paul Singh's Disruption Corp for an undisclosed amount in a move to build the area's tech community with up-to-date information, data and mentorship. Disruption Corporation offers Research and Investment which it says is built on ...
Whether it is for a discussion, coming in to listen to a speaker, technology challenge, you will almost always find the people at the iHub coming in and going out well into the night. It has been the home for many all brought together by innovation within the tech space ...
Index Ventures at the Nailab Index Ventures, a $4b worth investment fund with over 383 Investments in 244 companies, Index Ventures team today had its tour of Nairobi's iHub and Nailab, met a number of startups from the city and as well did listen to a ...
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 ...
Chase Bank and iHub today signed a deal expected to enhance Kenya's tech ecosystem from mere app development to provision of local solutions to diverse problems facing the business community. Speaking to TechMoran after the announcement of the deal, Mr Chege Thumbi, Group Director IT and Operations, Chase Bank, said, ...
Kenya's Moringa School wants to train world-class developers from its Nairobi facility as demand for rockstar developers doubles up in Africa. Now calling for applications for its second cohort Moringa School offers a 12-week course where students learn HTML/CSS, Java (for Android), Ruby on Rails, UI/UX, and business fundamentals as well as ...
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 ...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon who is on his last day in the country on a Horn of Africa tour aimed at promoting peace and development today visted iHub, Ushahidi, Akirachix and BRCK and said the innovations were the future of Kenya and the hope of Africa. In a fireside chat ...
Forget Ello, now available in 15 languages and working with a variety of global SMS providers like Nexmo, Twilio, Clickatell, among others, Ushahidi's Ping.io has today launched in private alpha to open doors to businesses, municipalities, and organizations to create a tool that meets their real needs. Ping will help users ...
Kenya's iHub and JKUAT (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology) have signed an MOU in a move to stir innnovation in the country. According to iHub's Executive Director Josiah Mugambi announcing the development in a blog post,"With a shared goal of developing people, research and local innovation, especially through technology ...
With the rise of entrepreneurship in Africa, there is a parallel rise in misunderstanding of the role of venture capital, how to pitch to a venture capital, how to scale an early-stage high-growth venture and such. Savanna Fund as now partnered with University of Cape Town and has organized a ...
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 ...
iHub has said it will shut down its 24 node super computer and shift into the cloud after several months working on the project. The shut down of the dear project might be shocking but no need to worry as the organization is shifting to the cloud. iHub's Community Lead ...
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 ...
Looks like the Kenyan app developers will be having a better experience in making imaging-based apps as Nokia has introduced the latest version of the Nokia Imaging Software Development Kit (SDK). With the Nokia Imaging SDK 1.1, developers will have access to a powerful library of exciting image ...
