African Entrepreneurs are encouraged to enter for the 2018 African Entrepreneurship Award and Shared in the $1 Million Prize money if you have a business or idea in Sports or a business or idea that is innovative.
See full details on requirements and eligibility: https://africanentrepreneurshipaward.com/
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Applications are now open for the first Femintech Innovation Challenge from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of the largest e-commerce company in the world, Amazon. The challenge is designed specifically for women-led startups in Africa and aims to promote innovation, networking, and investment opportunities. The Femintech Innovation Challenge will highlight and honor…
The Anzisha Prize is thrilled to announce this year’s winner of the $25,000 Grand Prize in the 5th year of Africa’s premier award for youth entrepreneurship. Chris Kwekowe (22), founder of Slatecube which offers a job-relevant skills learning platform and job placement services,impressed the judges. Slatecube has had significant success to date with potential for scale…
The Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), a program for SMEs and startups scaling market-based and contextualized solutions to critical climate adaptation and resilience challenges, is now accepting applications in Africa and Asia. ASAP, which is led by Village Capital and The Lightsmith Group, will help 16 SMEs and startups scale climate adaptation and resilience solutions…
28 February 2022 – Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a new white paper titled “Towards A Flourishing Digital Economy for All – A Spotlight On Africa” was published – and discussed for the first time by a panel including senior executives from Vodacom, SafariCom, Smart Africa and the World Bank. The paper was commissioned…
As eCommerce is gaining more acceptance in Africa,more organisations are beginning to explore several ways to tackle one of the biggest challenges of eCommerce in the region which is online payment.Am excited as more progresses are made in this regard in Nigeria. Konga,a leading eCommerce portal in Nigeria is trying their hands on their own…
#StartupSouth, the premier Technology and Business Innovation Conference in the South-South and South-East regions of Nigeria will take place on October 3rd and 4th, 2024 in Port Harcourt. Announcing this in a media parley, Uche Aniche, Convener and Cofounder of #StartupSouth said this year’s theme, “Deep & Broad: Extending Frontiers of Technology and Economic Development,”…
