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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Founded in 2013, by Zim Ugochukwu, an American born of two immigrants from Nigeria, Travel Noire has been acquired by Blavity, a new media platform focused on black millennials a for an undisclosed amount. The Minnesota born founder and travel enthusiast said…
Luxity, Cape Town-based online boutique focused on buying and selling pre-owned, authentic luxury goods for men and women throughout South Africa has opened doors of its first flagship store. “Luxity’s online boutique at www.luxity.co.za has already enjoyed enormous success. With this new…
Tulaa, is a new mobile commerce business set to enable farmers to access inputs, finance, information and markets in a virtual marketplace. The platform is incubated by Ghana’s Esoko in a move to enable farmers to save and borrow to purchase…
Andela has opened its first all-female fellowship in Uganda giving young girls a full-time employment opportunity to hone the skills their need to become global technology leaders regardless of their previous career choices. The four year intensive learning and real work experience…
Over the past year, 163 million women were starting businesses across 74 economies worldwide—this is according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2016/17 Women’s Report released on September 7th 2017. “This not only shows the magnitude of impact women entrepreneurs have across…
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…
