Women are achieving great things in business, and in the U.S. alone, there are 12.3 million women-owned businesses spanning a wide range of industries. Today, there are 114% more female entrepreneurs than there were two decades ago. Despite the great strides they have made in entrepreneurship, however, many women still report feeling ...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), committed to empowering young African entrepreneurs, and the European Union have partnered to identify, train, mentor and fund 2,500 young African women entrepreneurs in 2021. The partnership will disburse €20 million in financial and technical support for women-owned businesses, across all 54 African countries, in ...
Women and children are among the most vulnerable in any society around the world. In some countries, women cannot walk or enjoy activities at night because their risk of being in danger heightens at this time. However, technology has made some efforts to help with this. There are various gadgets ...
Farmshine, a Nairobi based agritech start-up that focuses on helping women subsistence farmers realize more income through smart ways has raised funding to help bolster its activities in East Africa. Farmshine teaches farmers climate-smart agriculture techniques and helping them secure higher contract prices for their produce and has received funding ...
Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF), has selected 22 women entrepreneurs as finalists in its annual awards in a move to promote excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation amongst women-owned businesses across Africa. The Awards take place on the last evening of the two-day event, October 29-30, 2019, in Cape ...
The African Women in Technology (AWIT) Conference is scheduled to take place from July 18 - 20, 2019. Hosted yearly by IBOM LLC, the 3-day conference is themed "Awaken The Techazon Within" focuses on empowering, educating and connecting African women in business and technology. The aims to be the go-to ...
Sometimes even putting a bulb is a bit of challenge, but apparently not for these four African girls. At only 14 and 15 these four young girls have done a phenomenon thing. Their startup was first spotted at the Maker Faire Africa event, a startup event that would showcase people's ...
You honestly don't need to mentally torture yourself trying to remember your menstrual cycle when you can get a period tracker. Technology is best used when it helps you. There are those days when you don't remember when your periods came or even how the flow was, hence why you ...
The Pan-African trust program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) today announces the winners of the 2018 Miss.Africa Digital Seed Funding for STEM Programs. Kumasi Hive from Ghana wins the 2018 5,000 USD Grand Prize while, INTELLECT-Team at Laboratory of Technologies for Smart Systems (CRNS) Tunisia and Eco-Sol Consulting (Full STEM Ahead!) Seychelles ...
DEMO Africa has launched DEMO Ventures, an investment arm leveraging on the great successes of Demo Africa over the last 6 years to raise a $100m fund focused on early stage and growth startups across Africa. “Our proprietary deal flow of the 3,000+ early stage enterprises will form the bulk ...
Triple Cord is one of the fast growing companies in the Information Technology world in Kenya. The company has a number of solutions for communication problems. Patience Atsango an Economist major from Kenyatta University and Edwin Oloo experienced a gap that needed to be filled in the IT communication ...
Mastercard announced today that Salah Goss has been appointed as Head of the Mastercard Labs for Financial Inclusion, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Salah brings extensive experience in financial inclusion specializing in mobile enabled solutions, agent banking and community-managed microfinance. In her new role, Salah will oversee the development of digital solutions that ...
All 193 United Nations member countries signed in approval of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in a collective effort to “create the future we want in 2030.” SDGs&Her is an online competition for women entrepreneurs to showcase how they are carrying out business operations in support of supporting the ...
Skolera is a unified learning platform that allows teachers to deliver streamlined and integrated learning to students, and can interact with students and parents. It simplifies the management of the school, from student affairs, HR, accounting, payroll, amongst other day to day activities. Skolera has bagged several awards from ...
Article by Mary Olushoga, founder of awpnetwork.com, a platform powering small business success for African entrepreneurs. *** Why are women innovators largely ignored in Nigeria’s male-dominated technology spaces? Why didn’t Vice President Osinbajo visit any women-owned spaces during the highly popular and attention-grabbing #VPTourofTech? On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 – ...
Priscilla Kennedy, founder of Piehole.tv, a video production company, says that now is the time to experiment and embrace video within a business environment. A native African strategist and creative director, Kennedy says they started Piehole.tv and then made a strategic decision to locate it in the Karoo, South Africa: “We ...
Wemo Kitawa started Mama Ventures in 2015 and she was overwhelmed by the entire process. She found herself listening to podcasts and reading on how other founders across the world managed their time. She found herself strained – managing to give herself between 2-3 hours of sleep a day. At ...
Flare has launched a new product, Rescue to allow users to sign-up in advance of an emergency to have the peace of mind that someone will be there to help you. For as little as Ksh 1,500 annually, individuals and families have access to a medical team 24 hours a day, 7 ...
This article has been updated to reflect the true status of Moringa School. It's not struggling financially and it's co-founder left the company willingly. Moringa is set to offer its training courses to startups in Accra, Lagos and Cape Town after it signed a partnership deal with pan-African startup incubator MEST which ...
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Ms. Vera Songwe has launched the Women and Girls Startup Challenge, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire to help promote female digital entrepreneurship, economic empowerment and business projects. The fund also aims to help marshal funds for young female digital entrepreneurs. The Women ...
Eventtus, a MENA events platform recently raised $2m led by Algebra Ventures and 500 Startups to allow Eventtus to accelerate its expansion in the Middle East and introduce new products to also compete on a global scale. “This round comes at a time when we believe that the Eventtus platform ...
Founded by Anastasia Kaschenko, Beth Koigi and Clare Sewell, Kenya's Majik Water has launched a prototype and started its water harvesting process in pilot to help people in off-grid communities in Kenya harvest water from air using simple techniques and equipment. The three-girl team, comprising of Clare, who previously worked as a strategic consultant ...
Jumia Food, a Rocket Internet-backed online food ordering and delivery firm has hired a new Managing Director to drive restaurant sign ups to its platform and drive customer acquisition as the festive season approaches. Shreenal Ruparelia has worked in Management Consulting and eCommerce across Australia, Asia and East Africa and ...
FabWoman has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-seed funding from Iconway Ventures to solve the problem of product and brand discovery for women. According to FabWoman co-founders, Anu Odubanjo and Dayo Odubanjo, Fabwoman content and commerce platform aim at serving millennial women in Africa between ages 20 and 40. With topics ...
Uber has hired a new GM for West Africa as Safaricom-backed Little prepares to launch in a few weeks. Uber says its new GM for West Africa, Lola Kassim, who is replacing Ebi Atawodi will oversee the firm's West Africa strategy, improve its UberX service and create additional value for ...
Kenya's Pezesha.com a peer-to-peer micro-lending marketplace for Africa has been selected to participate at the upcoming Blackbox Connect 20 accelerator programme, a two-week residential programme for startup founders from across the globe. Holding in Silicon Valley in November this year, Blackbox is an entrepreneur-first approach that aims to make entrepreneurs ...
Nairobi-based women-focused lifestyle & fashion site Zumi Magazine raised $250,000 to expand into Nigeria & Ghana. Co-founded by Ex-Rocket Internet executives William McCarren and Sabrina Dorman, Zumi entertainment, lifestyle and love, fashion, beauty and style news to a smartphone enabled, female audience. The site targets 18-35 year old African women. ...
By Nikki Summers Kenya marks the first transition of power under a devolved system of governance, one of the major opportunities and challenges for the newly appointed governors will be to create an environment where Small & Medium Businesses can prosper and where job opportunities will be created for thousands ...
Themed Equity, impact and inclusive growth towards Agenda 2030 and a sustainable African future, the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (AWIEF 2017) has its sights firmly set on the economic empowerment of women, who have historically been side-lined and disregarded in predominantly patriarchal and tribal societies. Set to be ...
Wala is a digital banking platform for Africa making banking FREE for everyone and completely changes the way consumer’s access, engage with, and use financial products and services. From accounts, to payments, to insurance, Wala aims to make personal finance easier or more affordable for all. It's philosophy is different. ...
