The second annual bootcamp for aspiring African game developers, GameUp Africa 2, has started. GameUp Africa 2 is a training program for prospective game creators that is run by Maliyo Games, a renowned game development studio. Its goals are to upskill African youth in the fundamental skills needed for Android game creation while supporting the…
Cashlinq is a banking platform software as a service developed by Mugonat Systems Inc., a Zimbabwean software development and consultancy company that offers enterprise software solutions, website services, mobile apps, e-commerce, and chatbots. Cashlinq aims to empower entrepreneurs across the continent to offer superior banking services by making it simple for them to access high…
ZohoDay – Austin, Texas — Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, announced achieving a rate of 38% year-over-year growth and surpassing the 80 million user mark. In addition to ongoing global expansion, the company continues to grow its product portfolio and make investments in automotive, robotics, and health care technologies. Zoho also celebrated opening 59 new global hub-and-spoke…
African businesses can now manage all of their operations and data in one digital space thanks to the Nigerian startup GreenBii, which was created as an offshoot of the ed-tech platform Traindemy. The company behind Traindemy, which provides consumers with access to online courses offered by technical and vocational schools to help them develop marketable…
African startups, accelerators, and incubators are invited to the Japan Innovation Bridge (J-Bridge) Launch event with the theme: “The Future of Innovation in Africa – Securing Business Opportunities Through Collaboration with Japanese Companies” by the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). A business platform called Japan…
Quality African companies looking for finance now have access to capital through the cutting-edge crowdfunding website GoGetta. With merely R1000 or more, local and foreign angel and venture capital investors can now choose from pre-screened possibilities and make rapid, risk-free investments to acquire shares in a variety of African companies. Co-founder of GoGetta Sthembiso Zwane…
The HerMeNow accelerator program has asked women-led social entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East and North Africa to apply if they are creating significant solutions for culture, attitude, and education. The three-month HerMeNow program, which is entirely virtual, offers technical, financial, and mentorship support to 10 women-led social entrepreneurs in the accelerator phase as…
The third Google News Initiative Innovation (GNI) Challenge winners have been revealed by Google, and they include 34 media platforms. These award winners, who come from Turkey, the Middle East, Israel, and Africa, were chosen for their commitment to advancing inclusion, equality, and diversity in the journalistic sector. 21 awardees from ten African countries were…
The Fintech Incubation Programme was introduced by Co-creation Hub in Rwanda in December 2021, with the first cohort’s completion scheduled for July 2022. The second cohort of beneficiaries is about to be accepted into the project, which is supported by Google, the Mojaloop Foundation, and the Rwandan government. Eight (8) startups will receive support from…
TeamApt, a fintech business in Nigeria, announced its Series B investment in July 2021. Global Ventures, Oui Capital, Kepple Africa Ventures, Gbenga Oyebode, and a few more angel investors and venture capitalists participated in the round. The Oui Capital Mentors Fund II, a $30 million fund, is being launched today by Oui Capital, one of…
Nairobi, August 1 – The 2022 SweepSouth Report on Pay and Working Conditions for Domestic Workers for Kenya and South Africa has been released. This is the fifth year that SweepSouth has released their annual report, each year painting a picture of what domestic workers go through and endure. This year, the survey was sent…
The future of African banking is digital. A 2021 Fiserv report showed that “78% of people under the age of 40 would stay with their bank if it went all digital, compared to only 47% of people over 40”. Africa has the youngest population in the world, with over 70% of sub-Saharan Africa under the age…
Aerobotics, a South African agri-tech startup, has launched a new yield management platform, providing growers with tools to measure, manage, and protect their yields. Aerobotics, founded in Cape Town in 2014, uses aerial imagery from drones and satellites and combines it with machine learning algorithms to provide tree and wine farmers with early problem detection…
Applications for the second year of DMZ’s incubator program, which aims to support early-stage tech startups, are now open. DMZ Cairo, which will open in 2021, will provide the next generation of tech entrepreneurs with the tools they need to build, launch, and scale highly impactful startups in Egypt’s capital. The Academy of Scientific Research…
Safaricom customers can now purchase tokens for coding lessons through the mobile operator’s financial services platform, M-Pesa. Customers will be able to activate the coding lessons on their children’s tablets, laptops, and desktop computers after making a successful purchase. Safaricom will collaborate with Kodris to see this new business venture through to completion. “We are…
Paratus, a telecommunications company, will open Armada, a new data center in Windhoek, Namibia come August 20222. For the first time, colocation customers will have the option of using infrastructure hosting services. Any client hosting within the facility will be able to select which telecommunications provider they want to use. Schalk Erasmus, COO of the…
Kodris Africa, an education technology firm, has partnered with Safaricom to promote coding education by purchasing annual lessons through the M-PESA app. Customers can now use the M-PESA platform to purchase tokens that provide a year’s worth of coding lessons and then activate them on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer for their children to…
As part of its global expansion, Moove, the world’s first mobility fintech and Uber’s largest vehicle supply partner in EMEA, has announced its launch in India. Moove, a company that provides revenue-based financing to mobility entrepreneurs, has expanded from its African roots to Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore to provide vehicle financing to Uber driver-partners. Moove…
The UN Population Fund and AfriLabs have launched an incubation program to support ideas that address female genital mutilation (FGM) and climate change. The Climate HackLab project was launched in May 2021 by the UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office as part of the flagship Safeguard Young People Programme. The HackLab is a climate…
With this second emerging market seed stage fund, Seedstars, a seed-stage venture fund devoted to emerging and frontier markets, will build on its success in supporting over 90 emerging market venture ecosystems and invest in 100 pre-seed and seed-stage companies throughout Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America over the course of the next…
The first 156 firms confirmed to be a part of the famed Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator’s S22 cohort include four African startups. The S22 batch of the Y Combinator program, which helped launch businesses like Airbnb, Coinbase, and Dropbox among others, is presently in session and will come to a close in September with…
With outstanding results, Jobberman, the largest online training and job placement platform in sub-Saharan Africa, has broadened its non-cognitive soft-skills training to cover low-tech messaging networks like WhatsApp and Telegram. The program had a 41 percent completion rate over a five-month period, which is nearly three times higher than the typical completion rate for certificated…
In order to increase the productivity of Africa’s pharmaceutical industry, Nigerian startup Remedial Health has created a number of solutions. As a result, it was accepted into the Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator incubator. Remedial Health, founded in 2020 by Samuel Okwuada and Victor Benjamin, offers a variety of technological solutions that make it simpler for…
With the introduction of KwikStore, Kwik is extending the range of digital services it provides to African business owners and social sellers, adding even another new service to the already amazing package it offers. KwikStore is a free e-commerce storefront solution that enables any African business owner, merchant, social vendor entrepreneur, and small to medium-sized…
In order to speed up the COVID-19 vaccine, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, has started the country implementation of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) program in Kenya. Only 32% of the adult population is fully immunized, and the country is currently facing the…
African Data Hub (ADH) is continuing its Community Journalism Fellowship Programme by announcing the Call for Applications for its second Cohort. This initiative aims to improve the coverage of under reported issues in local communities across Nigeria, paying special attention to potential solutions with lasting impact towards effective public service delivery, grassroot development and improving the quality…
The Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB) was approved by the Nigerian Senate yesterday. This information was released over 4 months after the bill and a letter from the president were submitted to the National Assembly in March of this year. According to the letter, the Startup Bill aims to establish the nation’s startup environment as the…
I write this as a product manager amongst many other product managers. Speaking to another product manager, you may realise that our challenges differ. You may also realise that there are similarities. Perspective is also another thing to consider because what another product manager sees as a challenge may not be a challenge for me….
The long-term digital and e-commerce transformation strategy of the parent business, Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Massmart, has announced the introduction of an online shopping app by South African retailer Makro. Makro claims that the app already has over 120,000 products available and will allow users to quickly and affordably purchase items from all of its categories….
At the Boma 2022 event, the African Union unveiled two major flagship initiatives: the African Vaccine Passport and eHealth backbone and a digital platform for quickening the AfCFTA‘s implementation. By using the PanaBIOS and UNDP-supported Global Haven protocols, the African Vaccine Passport enables every citizen of the African Union to obtain free digital proof of…