The Earthshot Reward, a global environmental prize to find, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking ideas to repair and renew the earth, has welcomed African startups to submit applications. Each year, the Earthshot Prize conducts a global search for game-changing solutions. To see the process through to completion, a global network of more than 350 nominating people…
For those who want to be among the first to access the verification for organizations program, Twitter is now accepting signups. The business said this along with a link to the registration form in their statement, adding that it was once known as Blue for Business. For consideration on the waitlist, organizations must submit their…
Global Executives, experts and leaders will take stage, as we return with the 7th Edition Connected Banking Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on March 7, 2023. The Connected Banking Summit Series focuses on building future-oriented banking models by accelerating the pace of digital transformation and delivering a delightful customer experience in line with policy and regulations…
Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, is hosting the opening edition of Nigeria’s Top 50 Digital Economy Enablers February 14, 2023 at the prestigious Sheraton Hotel & Towers. Nigeria’s Digital Economy is evolving positively in spite of a diversity of challenges for organisations in the public and private sectors. Inspired by the need to express both the…
Peter Herweck, AVEVA CEO, will participate in the World Economic Forum 2023 (WEF 2023) in Davos, Switzerland to promote a sustainable industrial digital transformation in support of a lower carbon, socially just world. “AVEVA’s software has played an active role in accelerating the sustainability transition for industrial businesses for many years. At Davos this year, I look…
As part of its second startup exhibition, South African fintech company Stitch has invited early-stage businesses from around the continent to showcase their ideas to investors and other stakeholders. The organization, which held its first startup showcase last year, is currently seeking applications for the event’s second iteration. This infrastructure enables companies to develop, introduce,…
Ethiopia-based SaaS-enabled pan-African talent marketplace Gebeya recently announced a pre-Series A investment from Japanese venture capital firm Inclusion Japan. In more than 30 countries around Africa, Gebeya connects startups, SMEs, and multinational corporations with competent talent and professional services. Gebeya has operations in Kenya and Senegal in addition to its headquarters in Addis Abeba. “We…
Three Nigerian entrepreneurs have been confirmed as participants in the famed Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator’s W23 class. In addition to other advantages, they will get US$500,000 in funding. The W23 batch of the Y Combinator program, which helped launch businesses like Airbnb, Coinbase, and Dropbox among others, is presently in session and will come…
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced that its Sophos Intercept X Advanced with XDR solution has been named the top-ranked and sole leader in the Omdia Universe report for comprehensive extended detection and response (XDR) solutions. The global research company ranked Sophos’ product the highest in nearly all capabilities categories – excelling…
Today, Apple Maps gets a new tool that will help the service, which has been around for more than ten years, compete with Google better: business owners will now be able to update and manage their own information on the platform, including crucial information like business hours and location, photos, logos, special offers and promotions,…
For cohort three of the AUDA-NEPAD Home Grown Solutions Accelerator, which aims to offer emerging and mature-stage African healthcare enterprises with hands-on, highly targeted support in order to help them improve and flourish, applications are now being accepted. The program, which was conceptualized in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to realize the potential of local…
The 2022 AgriPitch Competition of the African Development Bank Group will include 25 youth-led agriculture sector businesses from 14 African nations. The Competition’s 25 finalists were revealed by the Bank in partnership with the implementing lead Private Equity Support, partner organizations Eldohub and the Private Finance Advisory Network, and the $140,000 in grants and business…
Google has announced that the Google for Startups Growth Academy: Cybersecurity program is currently accepting applications. The application will take into account startups wanting to scale worldwide and particularly states it is for Seed to Series A startups situated in Europe. The three-month school will be off in April with courses led by a combination…
Retail success in a highly interconnected, data-driven world requires a balance of multiple dimensions, including providing value to customers at the right time and in the right place, while also reducing friction, and increasing engagement. This is according to some of the findings in the ‘Future of retail’ e-book that contains insights from retail and consumer packaged…
December 2022: ONE Africa Digital Summit will spearhead a power-packed programme of mind-stretching conference content at the inaugural GITEX AFRICA 2023 in Morocco, unifying government and private sector leaders, policy makers, investors and academics, to steer Africa’s transformation into a single digital market. The one-day summit on 30 May 2023 at Mamounia Hotel, Marrakech, is poised to…
Sama, the primary subcontractor for content moderation for Meta in Africa, declared earlier on Tuesday that its hub in Kenya will be the final destination for its content moderation division due to the need to consolidate operations. This comes just after another lawsuit demanded that Meta increase its capability for content monitoring in Kenya, and…
A $2 million investment into 10 entrepreneurs creating solutions to increase the resilience of climate-vulnerable populations in Africa has been announced by pre-seed venture capital (VC) fund and accelerator Catalyst Fund. Pre-seed venture capital fund and accelerator Catalyst Fund supports high-impact tech firms looking to strengthen the resilience of underprivileged, climate-vulnerable populations. It collaborates with…
Next month, a “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to assist a defendant in fighting a traffic ticket in court. DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder stated that the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments, and formulates responses for the defendant. Through headphones, the AI lawyer…
CredPal, a Nigerian financial company, has teamed up with Bolt, a ride-hailing business, to let its consumers “ride now and pay later.” The cooperation is a deliberate move by Credpal to strengthen its Buy-Now-Pay-Later products and provide clients simple credit financing solutions. By downloading the CredPal app, users can activate the option to pay for…
The ENRICH in Africa project, which aims to bring together key players from the European and African innovation ecosystems to support and enhance them, unveiled the ENRICH in Africa Centre (EiA Centre) at the annual congress that took place in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 25, 2022. The ENRICH in Africa project, an EU project funded…
Releaf, a digital firm that makes it simpler for African producers of consumer goods to get access to high-quality materials for their facilities, has raised $3.3 million in a Pre-Series A funding round that was oversubscribed. Samurai Incubate Africa, which had previously led Releaf’s seed round, served as the round’s lead investor and was joined…
Happy New Year and thanks for taking the time to meet today, Wole. I’ve heard a lot about your journey, and I’d love to dive deeper into your experience and learn more about your path in product management. Can we meet you please? Sure, my name is Wole Ayeni, a Product Manager with over five…
Eko Anime Fest was back for its second edition at the canyon center Lekki. The event drew almost 2000 dedicated anime lovers across Lagos and Nigeria in colorful and descript cosplay. The 12 hour event was filled with activities such as a cosplay contest, face painting, games, vendors and amongst this, a photo booth. The…
In 2022, Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered on average 400,000 malicious files distributed every day, indicating a 5% growth compared to 2021. The number of certain types of threats also escalated: for example, Kaspersky experts discovered the 181% increase in the proportion of ransomware detected daily. These and other findings are part of Kaspersky Security Bulletin…
One Device to Rule Them All Imagine an average professional working for your corporation or department, and his daily life – we’ll call him Mike. Mike wakes up and checks his social media and SMS notifications. Maybe he’ll search a news video and broadcast it onto his smart television while he dresses. Touching his phone…
The company has continued to support Windows 7 for businesses that are still using it as part of the ESU program even though it reached the end of support in January 2020. Only security patches were included in the Extended Security Update program, which was offered to paying customers as part of the monthly Patch…
According to a security researcher, hackers obtained the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on a hacking forum online on Wednesday. Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring company Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn that the breach “will regrettably result in a lot of hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing.” One…
The creators of the oddly endearing cat tail cushion, Yukai Engineering, are back with a new eccentric creation. The Fufuly, a new anxiety-relieving cushion from the Japanese manufacturer shown at CES 2023, uses a mild rhythmical pulsing as its primary therapeutic mechanism this time around. It is said that a Fufuly’s lifelike behavior stimulates your…
A $480,000 financing has been launched by Millesima Technologies, a Tunisian firm licensed under the StartupAct and focused on data technology, streaming media, and VOD. Millesima Technologies, established in 2021 by Haythem Dridi, specializes in video technology and data analytics. It provides an end-to-end solution that enables its users to design entirely virtual, partially virtual,…
As presale sales for Elon Musk’s Starlink, a satellite internet service, commence in Nigeria, the costs for its starter kits have been disclosed. The announcement was made by Starlink in a statement that TheCable saw on Tuesday. The change is in line with the business’s objectives to introduce and broaden its offerings in Nigeria this…