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 ...
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 Cardplanet Solutions has raised $100k from 500 Startups to up its products, hire engineers and focus on customer acquisition in a move that will turn around the firm's fortunes and growth story forever. Speaking to TechMoran, Rodgers Muhadi, Cardplanet Solutions co-founder and CEO said, "We are improving our product, ...
Sam Majani IMG HumanIPO A family is having a conversation after dinner. On national TV a respected business reporter is interviewing an octopus-like business woman. Confused, Tim, a nine year old boy asks the dad what a socialite really is. But before the dad could answer, ...
East Africa's Kola studios, a game development company backed by Africa-focused Savannah Fund has today released a new game dubbed Mosquito Rush, something people in East Africa do almost all time. Reknown for its Matatu game with over 60,000 users, Kola Studios has other popular games like Last Card, Keiko, ...
Knowledge of Venture Capital funding in Africa is inadequate, so is the experience these founders have dealing with V.C's as most of them get NGO/Grant funding. In a blog post mid this month, Mbwana Alliy, Managing Partner Savannah Fund said, Many in Kenya are just looking for funding when they ...
Malaika, Mbwana and James (Image Savannah Fund) Last week we announced that Savannah Fund participated in a Series A funding round for Wyzetalk, a South African-based secure social business platform that accelerates the performance of organisations via communication, collaboration, innovation and engagement. Savannah Fund has also lead a ...
Doing business in Africa is tough, especially for budding entrepreneurs and worse for those from other markets. There have been outcries of lack of curated information, inadequate data and limited entrepreneur resources for the modern day business owner apart from college textbooks or word-of-mouth from industry gurus, it's even harder ...
Savannah Fund, a Nairobi-based seed fund investing $25,000-US$500,000 into Africa-focused early stage web and mobile startups yesterday launched t the public its four startups from its second accelerator class. The four startups selected from a bunch of over 80 were from Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. Two of their startups Zatiti ...
Nairobi-based seed stage investment firm, Savannah Fund will on November 20 host Afrikoin, an event on Africa's emerging ecimmerce, digital currency and payments to help innovators, entreprenuers in the ecommerce and the payments space and laymen to understand the future of cash in Africa. Speaking to TechMoran Savannah Fund's Mwana ...
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 ...
DEMO is here in just a few hours, and we are happy, but thousands will leave this conference disappointed and ready to close shop. The conference now in its second year running brings together best startup entrepreneurs from across the continent, to come and launch their startups before a group ...
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 ...
Savannah Fund, a seed capital fund based at iHub Nairobi is injecting US$25,000-US$500,000 investments into early stage high growth web and mobile start-ups in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa-based Tech entrepreneurs have up to July 26 to apply for the three month acceleration. The fund announced, “We are accepting the second batch ...
Matt Chanoff, co-manager of Profounder LLC, an early stage investor in internet security and game technology firms is set to invest in Africa's Savannah Fund.Chanoff exclusively told TechMoran, "I am interested in working with Savannah Fund in Africa as they have a broad view of the continent, I like their ...
