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…
Africa has a growing economy with a large and vibrant population. Consequently, innovative EdTech founders of African descent are not leaving any stone unturned to create platforms that promote a customized learning experience for users. Distance is no longer a barrier. More so, students can now learn at their own pace. The Covid-19 pandemic contributed…
In line with its commitment to inspire developers to “build the future of Africa on Web3”, Mara, the Pan-African blockchain platform, is announcing the launch of the “Hack The Mara” competition which will take place from 17th-26th of September 2022. The aim of the Mara Hackathon is to engage participants to create decentralised applications that…
The first Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa has been given to three entrepreneurs from Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. Each will get a grant of EUR250,000 (US$250,000), international exposure, and long-term mentoring. The Kofi Annan Award seeks to assist in achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: “Good Health and Wellbeing” with its emphasis on…
Cairo, 18 July 2022 – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced a grant to Grand Africa Initiative (GAIN) to train two hundred young African entrepreneurs on entrepreneurship and intra-African trade over a three-month period starting July 2022. The GAIN-Afreximbank Masterclass on Entrepreneurship and Intra-African Trade is a three-month programme designed to equip participants from across…
Essie Mokgonyana has been appointed by SAS as the brand’s country manager and sales director for South Africa. This hiring is in keeping with SAS’s goal to invest in expanding the business in South Africa, which is motivated by the demand for advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and cloud-based solutions. Essie Mokgonyana has more than 15…
DigsConnect, a South African digital student housing platform, has closed a pre-Series A round of funding to drive its global expansion with a focus on assisting African students in the UK and US acquire more reasonably priced, practical, and secure housing. The DigsConnect website, developed by Alexandria Procter and Greg Ramsay-Keal, enables landlords, estate agents,…
Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (Tech4Dev) in Lagos, Nigeria, has announced that a total of 24 South African women have been accepted for the Women Techsters Fellowship class of 2023. The Women Techsters program seeks to narrow the gender gap in digital and technological literacy and to ensure that everyone has equal access…
In an email received earlier today, the fintech startup Flutterwave announced that starting on Sunday, July 17, 2022, customers of Barter Card, a virtual dollar card service, will no longer be able to use it. According to the message, the service was terminated “due to an update from our card partner, which will result in…
Applications for the most recent iteration of the GrowUp Incubator Program, which seeks social business solutions for sustainable tourism and mobility in East Africa, are now being accepted by the Yunus Environment Hub (YEH). The Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus co-founded and serves as the executive director of YEH, a global social enterprise…
Capacity building is the improvement of an individual’s or organization’s facility to produce, perform or deploy. According to the United Nation, Capacity building is the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities processes, and resources that organization and communities need to survive, adapt and thrive in a fast-changing world. Skill development and training are needed…
Multichoice has introduced a brand-new training program to transform the African TV industry, elevating professional competencies and raising the standard of content for viewers throughout the continent. MultiChoice, local television stations in several African countries, and the MultiChoice Talent Factory, the company’s industry-development and training program, will work together on the effort. Fhulufhelo Badugela, CEO…
Aceplora, an Edutech company in Nigeria, has reaffirmed its commitment to providing training to help children and young adults be adequately prepared to benefit from the abundance of job opportunities in the global tech space as part of efforts to increase information technology knowledge in the nation’s ICT ecosystem. Aceplora will offer instruction in a…
MOMBASA, Kenya, July 14th 2022…Moringa is excited to have TechBridge Invest onboard as a partner to facilitate training of students outside Nairobi. This partnership will see students from Mombasa join the 20 week Software Engineering course offered by Moringa as part of the tech institution’s mission to build talent and opportunities through tech based learning….
Zazuu, an Africa-focused fintech startup, has raised $2 million, which will be crucial in the company’s mission to reduce the inconsistency associated with remittance transactions for Africans. Zazuu is building a non-biased payment platform for cross-border payment solutions for Africans in the diaspora. Launch Africa, Founders Factory Africa, Hoaq Club, Tinie Tempah, Jason Njoku, CEO…
A new service from innovative company SendSprint Technology Solutions, which connects members of the African Diaspora to family back home by facilitating quick, easy, and hassle-free international transfers, has been launched in the UK. The African Diaspora is estimated to make up 1.7 million people in the UK. Damisi Busari, a former Flutterwave strategy lead,…
An deal to purchase Urbvan, a mobility platform that offers tech-enabled mobility services in Mexico, has been made public by Swvl Holdings Corp, a global mobility as a service provider. The startup from Egypt will use this acquisition to expand into Mexico, the second most populous nation in Latin America. One of the rare instances…
In order to reshape Africa by producing three million entrepreneurial leaders by 2035, African Leadership International (ALI) has agreed to acquire Holberton Inc., a Silicon Valley-based project-based college alternative that trains the next wave of software engineers. The acquisition will give ALI ownership of the program for advanced technology, enabling ALI to give international businesses…