Awards Entrepreneurship Events Women

Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum Announces Call for Nominations for AWIEF Awards 2021

The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) opens the nominations for the 2021 annual AWIEF Awards. Currently in its

SAIS
AgricTech Startup

APPLY: GIZ-SAIS Investment Readiness Programme 2022 For African AgriTech and FoodTech Startups

Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Startups’ (SAIS) is a project implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

AppsFlyer
Report

Nigeria Leads Mobile App Market Growth for Africa, According to AppsFlyer & Google Report

AppsFlyer, the global marketing measurement leader, has launched a report with Google that reveals a booming African mobile app market,

Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
Entrepreneurship Innovation

Noël N’guessan Wins the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2021

Chemical Engineer Noël N’guessan has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation with a biowaste

Cellulant
Fintech Payment

Cellulant Launches Tingg, a Digital Payments Platform for Retail Sector in Zambia

Payment technology over the years has completely transformed how retailers operate. Thirty years ago, most retailers across Africa did not

Tix.Africa
Funding Investment

Tix Africa Closes Six-figure Pre-seed Investment to Scale Events Products

Tix.Africa, a self-service ticketing platform for event creators in Nigeria, has secured six-figure pre-seed funding. The funding round was led

MaxAB
Ecommerce Funding Investment Venture Capital

Egyptian B2B E-commerce Startup, MaxAB Raises $40m Funding For Expansion

MaxAB, an Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, has secured $40M in a Series A round,

Mastercard
Report

74% of SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa Optimistic About Future Growth: Mastercard MEA SME Confidence Index

After facing unprecedented changes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) confidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Partnership Payment

Ukheshe Technologies Announces boostXB Joint Venture With ForexPeople

Ukheshe Technologies, a leading South African digital fintech enablement provider, has confirmed the establishment of a new joint venture with

Ed Partners Africa
Edtech Education Funding Investment Startup Venture Capital

Kenyan Edtech Startup Ed Partners Africa Raises $1.9m to Fund Affordable Private Schools

Kenyan edtech startup, Ed Partners Africa, an affordable private schools financing company, has raised $1.9 million to expand its presence