Startups

The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) in collaboration with Meta and Deloitte, have launched AKILI AI, an AI-Driven MSME Support Platform designed to empower Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across Africa.  This innovative platform leverages Meta’s Llama Open Source model and other cutting-edge AI technologies to provide MSMEs with the tools they need to thrive…

The 14th Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) in Africa and the Middle East has awarded cash prizes to five African startups. Since 2011, Orange’s strategy to support the expansion of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the inclusive development of the nations in which the Group operates in the Middle East and Africa has been centered on…

The Growth4Her Accelerator initiative, which attempts to close the gender finance gap in Africa, is open to female entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The six-month Growth4Her Accelerator gives female entrepreneurs the skills and resources they need to build their companies from tiny to growth-stage companies that can be funded. The fourth cohort of the investment-readiness program is…

The Harvard Business School’s Africa Business Club is accepting applications for its New Venture Competition, which gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to earn up to $55,000 in cash prizes. In an effort to highlight the variety of entrepreneurs making an impact on the continent today, the student-run Africa Business Club will hold its most recent annual…

The first-ever Africa ICT Summit Awards have been unveiled by Africa Tech Summit as a new platform to honor the continent’s most creative and influential ICT firms, executives, and solutions. At the annual Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi, where the continent’s leading innovators, entrepreneurs, and business executives come together to discover, network, and invest in…