Technology Innovation Agency
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The Technology Innovation Agency and the SAB Foundation form a partnership to further support innovation

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(8 June 2022, Johannesburg) The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation, and the SAB Foundation have announced a partnership to promote social entrepreneurship development in South Africa. The SAB Foundation describes social entrepreneurship as business solutions to social problems. The partnership will see TIA and SAB Foundation co-investing…

British Council

British Council, Microsoft Announce an e-Learning Initiative for Young Business Owners

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The British Council and Microsoft have established an e-learning program to help young entrepreneurs shape their futures and take control of their livelihoods. #BossupInAfrica, a program for young people aged 18 to 25, was created in 2021 to assist them scale up their talents. The curriculum is divided into three modules, each featuring a variety…

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Egypt’s Nice Deer Secures $1 Million Pre-Seed Round

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DisrupTech Ventures sponsored a $1 million pre-Seed investment round for Egypt-based insurtech Nice Deer. The cash will be used to extend the company’s offerings, such as providing health insurance options for small businesses. Nice Deer was created in early 2022 and is based in Egypt. Its goal is to close the gap between health-care providers,…

Norrsken Impact Accelerator

Nine African Startups Join the Norrsken Impact Accelerator

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The Norrsken Impact Accelerator, a well-known early-stage accelerator, has picked nine African startups from eight countries to participate in its second round. The accelerator is one of the Norrsken Foundation’s programs. Niklas Adalberth, co-founder of Swedish fintech unicorn Klarna, founded the organization in 2016 to assist entrepreneurs around the world in addressing some of the…

Dstny and Tactul

Dstny Acquires Egyptian Customer Experience Startup, Tactul AI

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Dstny, a Belgian corporate communications provider, has acquired Egyptian startup Tactful AI, which provides a cutting-edge intelligent customer experience platform. Tactful is a unified customer experience platform that provides businesses with a single dashboard through which to manage, engage, augment, and understand customers’ experiences across numerous touch points. It was founded by Mohamed Elmasry, Mohammad…

Payfast

South Africa’s Payfast Rolls out Fresh Program to Equip Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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PayFast, a South African internet payment gateway, has partnered with Heavy Chef’s entrepreneur education non-profit, the Heavy Chef Foundation, to offer a 12-week development program. The new program aims to equip budding entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills they need to launch their own e-commerce businesses. More than 42% of growing South African entrepreneurs, according…

Paul Edwards

Paul Edwards, Former MTN CEO Receives Series A Funding for New Fintech Startup

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Paul Edwards, the former CEO of MTN Group, has raised a series-A round of capital for his new fintech business VantagePay. According to TechCentral, Crossfin Holdings, a Blue Garnet Ventures affiliate, has purchased a “significant share” in the company for an unknown value. VantagePay, formerly Vantage Africa Limited, was founded in 2018 with the mission…

Sendy

Sendy Collaborates With Google to Launch Google Hustle Academy for SME’s in Africa

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Sendy, a Nairobi-based software firm that develops fulfillment solutions for e-commerce and consumer brands, has teamed up with Google to launch the “Google Hustle Academy program,” which aims to boost Africa’s small and medium companies. The boot camp program is expected to deliver expert training on business strategy and development, digital marketing, and financial planning…

Kendi Ntwiga

Kendi Ntwiga, Former Microsoft Kenya Country Director Joins Meta as the Global Head of Misrepresentation

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Kendi Ntwiga has been named Global Head of Misrepresentation of  Meta owners of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp after her departure from Microsoft Kenya, where she served as Country Leader. Her appointment began in May, and she will be stationed in Ireland. Kendi will strive to push for operational processes to scale Meta’s enforcement of community…

Kenya Development Corporation and KAM
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KAM Partners With Kenya Development Corporation to Facilitate SME Recovery

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The Kenya Development Corporation (KDC) has teamed up with the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) to help the manufacturing sector’s small and medium-sized businesses recover. KDC revealed that it has initiated a plan to engage SMEs countrywide to sensitize them on KDC’s products and services in order to understand their financial needs during the engagement,…

Babymigo

Nigerian Femtech Startup, Babymigo is Reducing the Rate of Maternal Deaths Across Africa

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Kemi is a co-founder of Babymigo, a Nigerian femtech firm created in 2017 with the goal of increasing access to high-quality pregnancy and parenting information. It works by providing a digital platform via which prospective, pregnant, and nursing moms can connect with peers and specialists, as well as locate local health and social resources. Overall,…

Appetito
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Appetito Acquires Lamma to Open Office in Tunisia, Morocco, and West Africa

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Appetito, an on-demand grocery retail company based in Cairo that delivers food to customers from a small network of dark stores, announced the acquisition of Lamma, a similar company based in Rabat and the Greater Tunis area of Morocco and Tunisia, on Tuesday. The purchase is slated to finalize in the third quarter of 2022,…

Digital Africa

How Digital Africa Keeps Empowering African Entrepreneurs With Bridge Funding and Impact Programs

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Digital Africa is a mission-driven effort funded by the French government with the goal of assisting African tech entrepreneurs and innovators by offering technical assistance, financing projects and enterprises, and establishing a regulatory climate that encourages African innovation. Digital Africa has expanded to a community of 6,000 African entrepreneurs across multiple sectors since its debut…

Google African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

AIMS Collaborates With Google To Pursue Joint Research Interests In Africa

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The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Ghana has signed a Masters Sponsored Research Agreement (MSRA) with Google Research, with the goal of pushing scientific research forward in fields such as artificial intelligence. As part of their continued commitment to collaborate and improve computing and technology in Africa, the agreement aims to strengthen the collaboration…

Starlink

Elon Musk says Starlink has been approved in Nigeria and Mozambique

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Elon Musk revealed in a tweet on Friday that Starlink, his space exploration company’s satellite internet service, has been licensed in Nigeria and Mozambique. This announcement comes three days after Musk responded to a tweet regarding the service’s debut in Africa. “Yes, first African countries to be named soon,” he tweeted. “Everywhere on Earth where…

Energy Transition

Western Powers to Support Energy Transition in South Africa With $8.5-Billion

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According to a joint statement released by the South African government and the African Development Bank, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, and other European Union countries have pledged an initial amount of $8.5 billion to South Africa to fund the country’s long-term ‘just transition’ process to reduce the carbon intensity of the…

Meet the 15 Startups Selected for CcHUB’s Createch Accelerator Programme
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Meet the 15 Startups Selected for CcHUB’s Createch Accelerator Programme

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The CcHUB’s Creative Economy Practice has selected 15 entrepreneurs to participate in the Createch Accelerator 1.0 program, which will provide them with knowledge, networks, and assistance to help them accelerate their journey to profitability, scalability, and institutional financing. The selected startups will have access to a network of Creative Economy leaders, including the ATCG network…

Yellow Card
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Yellow Card, Nigerian Crypto Exchange Opens Office in Ivory Coast

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As it continues to expand across Africa, Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has added Ivory Coast to its list of 16 countries where it operates. Yellow Card, which was founded in 2018 and launched in Nigeria in 2019, allows anyone in Africa to buy cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT Stablecoin with cash, mobile…

Solar Sister
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Solar Sister, LivelyHoods Kenya Collaborates to Provide Clean Energy to Millions of People in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Solar Sister, Inc. and LivelyHoods Kenya have combined in a move that is projected to provide millions of individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa with economic opportunities and renewable energy. Solar Sister’s operations in Nigeria and Tanzania will be combined with LivelyHoods’ network in Kenya, resulting in greater effect on the three most pressing concerns of our…

Gebeya
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Gebeya Announces Partnership With BIT Foundation to Empower and Connect African Talents

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Gebeya Inc., a Pan-African marketplace for freelance professional talent, has announced a new relationship with the Blacks In Technology (BIT) Foundation, a global community that provides training, networking, and mentorship services to Africans working in the technology area. By serving as a connecting channel for a global professional network and freelancing marketplace, our alliance will…

Trace Academia and VISA
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Visa Partners With Trace Academia to Help African Youths Develop Practical Business Skills

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The latest development in Visa’s Practical Business Skills (PBS) initiative, which offers potential partners integration and co-branded opportunities to contribute to business transformation and empowerment, is their partnership with Trace Academia, a mobile-based learning application that aims to enable 26 million youth across Africa. The collaboration provides a free online learning platform with a variety…

eGovernment

The Nigerian Government Will Equip 200,000 Public Servants for the eGovernment Initiative

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Nigeria’s Federal Government intends to work with the Korean government to train 200,000 civil officials on the eGovernment program over the next five years in order to accelerate the objective to make Nigeria a paperless government by 2030. The project’s initial phase has already trained 1400 government employees. According to The Guardian Nigeria, the Minister…

Chidi Nwaubani
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Nigerian Looty founder, Chidi Nwaubani, is Reclaiming African Artefacts Through Digital Art

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A Nigerian man, Chidi Nwaubani has launched the “Looty” project, which aims to restore African antiques taken by European colonists by creating 3-D reconstructions of them, selling them as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and donating the proceeds to young African artists. Objects taken during the colonial period have recently been returned to their countries of origin,…

Boris Bison
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Boris Bison, Cameroon Business Incubator Seals Deal to Spread 5G Tech Spaces Across Africa

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Boris Bison (BB) Incubator, a Cameroon-based business incubator, has partnered with Ludique Works, a pan-African video game publishing company, and Start North, a Finnish technology learning accelerator network, to bring their technologically advanced learning environments, known as ‘5G Mokki Tech Spaces,’ to the African continent. Mr. H.E. Bassilekin III Achille, Cameroon’s Minister for Small and…

Honoris United Universities

Honoris United Universities Changes 770,000+ Lives Across Africa

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The initial impact report from Honoris United Universities, Africa’s first and largest pan-African network of private higher education institutions. Honoris’ commitment to Education for Impact for students, their families, and communities across Africa is highlighted in the report, which estimates that Honoris has altered over 770,000 lives in Africa by educating its students for fulfilling…

Sophos
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Sophos Named a Leader in 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Endpoint Protection, Detection and Response

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Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced it has been named a leader in the 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Endpoint Protection, Detection and Response. It is commended as an Overall Leader, sweeping all product, innovation and market leadership ratings. “An increasing number of organizations are being hit with ransomware, and the average ransom payment…

ADH Twitter Space

ADH Twitter Space Amplifies Voices on Issues relating to Covid19 and Lassa Fever in Nigeria

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ADH Twitter Space is a monthly forum hosted by Orodata Science whose mission is to continue to democratize data, and knowledge towards solutions that impact the lives of millions. The goal is to drive an incisive conversation and share learnings on the wins, missteps, and impact of the Covid19 pandemic on the continent. The Africa…

Autocheck
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Nigeria’s Autocheck Buys Moroccan startup to Facilitate North African Expansion

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Autocheck, a Nigerian auto-tech firm, has purchased KIFAL Auto, a Moroccan competitor, to help it expand into the North African market. Autocheck’s goal is to create digital solutions that will improve and enable a seamless and secure automotive commerce experience throughout Africa. By developing a single platform for consumers’ automotive needs, from sourcing and financing…

ShelterTech accelerator
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African entrepreneurs are invited to apply for the next ShelterTech accelerator from Habitat for Humanity.

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The ShelterTech Sub-Saharan Africa accelerator program, run by the global non-profit Habitat for Humanity, is now accepting proposals from entrepreneurs with scalable solutions to today’s affordable housing concerns. ShelterTech is an affordable housing innovation platform that works across sectors, industries, and geographies to support and grow cutting-edge products and services that can help low-income households…

Rwanda is unarguably Africa’s leading tech destination with a new $1bn innovation hub
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Rwanda is unarguably Africa’s leading tech destination with a new $1bn innovation hub

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With Timbuktu, the home of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) new innovation funding hub, Rwanda is quickly becoming Africa’s first significant digital hub. The UNDP’s goal for the new hub is to jumpstart Africa’s startup boom. It also seeks to debate early-stage risk capital gaps, as well as cultivate global-class entrepreneurs and create the…