Village Enterprise, a nonprofit seeking to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation, has received a $1.3…
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Meera Dhanani Shah was part of the former Jumia executives who raised $8 million to launch Kapu, a B2C e-commerce…
IFC has announced the names of 100 women-led startup owners selected to participate in the She Wins Africa program, an…
As we aim to spotlight some of the best technologists, innovators, CEOs, and powerful women holding leadership roles in the…
SemaBox, Kenya’s podcasting studio and first specialist podcasting studio, has announced the launch of the second edition of the Dada…
Women are achieving great things in business, and in the U.S. alone, there are 12.3 million women-owned businesses spanning a…
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), committed to empowering young African entrepreneurs, and the European Union have partnered to identify, train,…
Women and children are among the most vulnerable in any society around the world. In some countries, women cannot walk…
Farmshine, a Nairobi based agritech start-up that focuses on helping women subsistence farmers realize more income through smart ways has…
Sometimes even putting a bulb is a bit of challenge, but apparently not for these four African girls. At only…
You honestly don’t need to mentally torture yourself trying to remember your menstrual cycle when you can get a period…
Triple Cord is one of the fast growing companies in the Information Technology world in Kenya. The company has…
All 193 United Nations member countries signed in approval of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in a collective effort…
Skolera is a unified learning platform that allows teachers to deliver streamlined and integrated learning to students, and can…
Wemo Kitawa started Mama Ventures in 2015 and she was overwhelmed by the entire process. She found herself listening to…
Uber has hired a new GM for West Africa as Safaricom-backed Little prepares to launch in a few weeks. Uber…
Over the past year, 163 million women were starting businesses across 74 economies worldwide—this is according to the Global Entrepreneurship…
South Africa’s EmptyTrips, an open marketplace paired with smart algorithms to match demand and supply of cargo transport is using…
iHub has been a leading force in innovation in Kenya. It has provided an incubator and hacker space for people…
Kenya has seen the rise of mobile money services since MPESA became a household name. Services range from mobile money…
Magic Bus Ticketing is an SMS bus ticketing app that connects commuters to public buses in informal transportation systems allowing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N__tgdSBNg Kenya’s TalentBoard has launched to help job seekers easily find jobs from their friends through referrals taking on struggling…
Safaricom says it plans to recruit 62 interns by January 2017 as it progresses its agenda to woo more women…
By Hannah Clifford,Director Nairobi Garage As the innovation ecosystem in Nairobi – Africa’s Silicon Savannah – grows, each of us…
Phones aren’t just for calling and receiving anymore, technology has grown way beyond that so as to assist us in…
Kenya’s CanvasandKangas.com, derived from Canvas the hardened cotton cloth and Kanga, the soft African pure cotton cloth, is startup based…
Founded in 2014 by Sisi King and Eleanor Mulindi-King sisters of Kenyan and British heritage, ZikoAfrika is a contemporary African…
She leads Africa, a social entreprenuership supporting girls in Africa has launched the Entrepreneur Showcase with $15,000 in cash prizes,…
Two Nigerians, Abiodun Johnson and Esosa Ighodaro in February launched CoSign to the public, the world’s first mobile app that…
Founded by Angela Wachera and Elvis Juma, Mombasa-based Shambafresh.co.ke aims to change the way people buy their groceries in Kenya’s coastal…