Safaricom, Kenya’s leading telecom company, has today announced that they have invested in Sendy, a Kenyan package-delivery startup that was in the 2014 list of PIVOT EAST semi-finalists as the very first beneficiary of the ...
Rise, a new physical and virtual community that facilitates collaboration and Financial Technology (commonly known as Fintech) innovation, has been launched by Barclays Africa Group in a bid to see Africa’s innovators and startups secure ...
About 2 months ago, Uber launched a pilot that would have its customers in Nairobi using cash instead of credit and debit cards that many of Nairobi’s folk don’t use anyway. The test phase has ...
Orange first launched its SMS APIs in 5 new countries Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Niger, and Senegal and at the same time launched its largest international developer challenge to date – running across 13 countries The ...
China’s AVIC International Holding Corporation has teamed up with Kenya’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to produce the 2nd season of their youth empowerment project, The Africa Tech Challenge. The first season of the ...
MTN Uganda, in partnership with Outbox and Garage48 launched the MTN App Challenge 2015. The MTN APP Challenge was a 3 day event in which local innovators came together to create Mobile Applications for use on Mobile devices.The ...
Imagine yourself in a room full of individuals from across different countries and continents all excited to interact over a period of 2 days, all thirsty for knowledge, connecting, sharing and learning from each others experiences. Such ...
The popular Think incubator housed in Rwanda has announced its second cohort of 10 finalists who are scheduled to receive investment and incubation from Tigo and the telecom’s parent company Millicom at the already established ...
If there is one thing that almost every developer wants, it is to make their way to Silicon Valley and spend just a day or two engaging different minds – getting even more time ...
About two months after M-KOPA Solar won an international award for its innovation that lights up homes using renewable energy at very low costs, the company has announced that its entry into neighbouring Uganda has ...
From the large pool of entrepreneurs in Africa who applied to be part of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) that opened for applications on January 1st this year and closed earlier this month, 1,000 ...
This year’s edition of DEMO Africa is now open to applications, with startups being invited to send their applications starting March 18, 2015 and is set to run until the end of May when the ...
Pinterest inc, the image bookmarking company that provides users with an online platform where they can share photos or communicate with followers using pictures, have announced a latest funding of $367 Million that has put ...
During this year’s edition of the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, a Startup program that aims to help innovative startups focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT) platform to market their solutions faster ...
For six years executives from various sectors have come together to discuss leveraging ICT for regional integration and this year’s edition of the Connected East Africa Forum is set to take place starting March 30, ...
Kenyan innovators will now have a central place to go to for when they have questions, enquiries or when they need government funding to see through their ideas into transformed business through a new national ...
BitPesa, the Bitcoin exchange service company based in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, is planning to expand its operations to neighbouring Uganda and Tanzania in the next weeks after raising 1.1Million Dollars (KSh99 Million) in its second ...
Earlier in the week, Kenya’s capital Nairobi was listed among the top 21 most intelligent cities around the world, making it the smartest city in the African continent as it was the only African city ...
