African startups selected winners of the 14th Orange Social Venture Prize.
The 14th Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) in Africa and the Middle East has awarded cash prizes to five African…
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Nigerian Growth4Her Accelerator applications are now being accepted.
The Growth4Her Accelerator initiative, which attempts to close the gender finance gap in Africa, is open to female entrepreneurs in…
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Applications are open for $55,000. Harvard Africa Business Club’s Startup Competition
The Harvard Business School’s Africa Business Club is accepting applications for its New Venture Competition, which gives entrepreneurs the opportunity…
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Startups are invited to submit applications for the first Africa Tech Summit Awards.
The first-ever Africa ICT Summit Awards have been unveiled by Africa Tech Summit as a new platform to honor the…
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20 Tech Startups from Africa will present at Nairobi’s Angel Fair Africa.
Ten startups and ten scale-ups are among the twenty African digital businesses that have been chosen to present at the…
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The Sterling Bank Green Innovation Challenge is open to Nigerian startups.
The Sterling Bank Green Innovation Challenge, which is providing award financing to projects in the cleantech, social enterprise, or agriculture…
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STEP, StartupSouth9 to Power Up South-South/South-East Startup Ecosystem
STEP, a leading initiative dedicated to empowering startups across Nigeria, partnered with StartupSouth9 to host the STEP x StartupSouth9 Event…
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Green Innovation Challenge: Call for Applications (Up to $1 Billion investment for startups, MSMEs, SMEs)
Green Innovation Challenge (GIC) 2024: Encouraging innovation by providing access to capital. GIC is committed to making capital accessible to…
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Uncap launches a $33 million fund to support the expansion of SME’s in Africa.
Unconventional Capital, a EUR30 million (US$33 million) fund, has been established by early-stage African investor Uncap with the goal of…
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TechNvst and Microsoft Join Forces to Launch AI Startups Uhuru Program
TechNvst, a prominent innovation commercialization firm based in South Africa, has announced an exciting new collaboration with Microsoft through the…
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Nigerian startups will be powered by Accelerate Africa and Itana.
Nigeria’s Itana, a digital free zone driving Africa’s digital economy, has partnered with Accelerate Africa in a strategic relationship to…
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Call for Applications: Grow Programme for African Startups
Grow is a 12-month program for advanced African businesses that prepares them for funding. GROW, which was created in partnership…
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Anzisha Prize awards $40k in prize money to 4 African startups.
The Anzisha Prize, which honors champions for their capacity to successfully develop their businesses, has recognized four African entrepreneurs as…
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Why African tech Startups Need Stellar API Documentation and how to do it – Tola Ore-Aruwaji
The African startup ecosystem is experiencing unprecedented growth, with innovations spanning across education, finance, agriculture, technology, and B2B sectors. In…
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SundryAgro: The Future of Personalized Grocery Shopping in Nigeria
In today’s fast-paced world, young adults juggle commuting to demanding jobs, managing side hustles, and maintaining personal lives. With the…
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Supplya: Digitizing the Supply Chain for Retailers
Africa’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) supply chain is broken due to numerous factors. High logistics costs, market fragmentation, and inefficiencies…
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How Nigeria’s SUWK links users with jobs and assists them in upskilling
Nigerian startup Skill Up With Kahdsole (SUWK) is a cutting-edge ed-tech platform that offers easily accessible, market-driven vocational education and…
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How to Develop Your Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Maintain It Long After Your Startup Is Successful
Risk-taking, those large bets made early on as startups to differentiate themselves from the competition, is the foundation of all…
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Co-Creation Hub Nigeria Announces Second Cohort of 12 New Start-ups Selected for theMastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship
Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) today announced the selection of twelve innovative EdTech start-ups to join its second cohort of the…
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Application for NBA Africa’s startup accelerator program is now open.
NBA Africa is now accepting applications for Triple-Double, an accelerator program designed to give financial awards and other forms of…
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Startups in Nigeria are invited to apply for the $10k Pitch2Win competition.
Early on The Pitch2Win competition, in its second iteration, is open to Nigerian companies and gives up to $10,000 in…
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Building Investments Worthy Startups
Startups come into existence for the purpose of solving a particular problem in the society. Every startup aims to be…
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IFC Reveals Top 100 Women Startups to Receive Growth Support Via ‘She Wins Africa’ Initiative
The IFC today released the names of 100 women-led business entrepreneurs who have been chosen to participate in the She…
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Startup Accelerator Y Combinator Reveals 20 New Startup Ideas for Summer 2024
Applications of artificial intelligence, climate technology, and spatial computing are among the latest projects that Y Combinator is looking to…
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5 African companies are selected for a global social impact program.
10 businesses—five of them from Africa—have been chosen to participate in Startup Boost, an international initiative for social impact entrepreneurs…
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How African Growth-stage Startups Fared in 2023 and What 2024 Holds
It was a challenging year for tech entrepreneurs in Africa. As previously projected, obtaining venture funding proved to be challenging;…
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12 Startups Qualifies for the 2nd Cohort of ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator
The ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator, which offers access to up to US$120,000 in equity capital and other forms of…
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During the “funding winter,” 10 African startups closed, and some are still fighting
Though there were initially expectations that the nascency of the African tech ecosystem may mean it spared too much damage,…
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8 Startups Joins the Latest Cohort of Grindstone Africa Accelerator Programme
The most recent iteration of Grindstone Africa, a well-known accelerator program that fosters high-growth entrepreneurship worldwide, has chosen seven South…
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23 Startups Eligible for Visa’s Debut Africa Fintech Accelerator Program
Visa has chosen 23 firms for its inaugural Africa Fintech Accelerator program, which aims to support African startups by providing…
