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Kenyan Teacher Wins $1m Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize

A Kenyan Teacher Peter Tabichi, has been named the world’s best teacher and awarded $1 million. Tabichi paid tribute to

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Kenya’s MumsVillage and Sierra Leone’s Mosabi make it to Gray Matters Capital’s GMC Calibrator

Gray Matters Capital, a US-based impact investor focused on the funding for-profit social enterprises in markets of Africa, India, Latin

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Kenya’s Shortlist Closes $2mn Series A Funding Led by Blue Haven Ventures

The Kenyan online platform, Shortlist, has closed its Series A funding round raising US$2mn. The funding round for the platform,

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Uber Lite Now Live in South Africa & Kenya

Uber has announced the launch of its Uber Lite app for Android in South Africa and Kenya. The “Lite” version

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Kenyan SaaS Startup, SuperFluid Labs Secures Funding From GreenTec Capital

Kenyan startup, SuperFluid Labs, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, has raised funding from the

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Kenya’s Copia Secures Investment From Goodwell Investments

Copia, an ecommerce business that specializes in supplying products and services to currently underserved consumers in rural Kenya has received

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Ashoka Opens Applications for Health Accelerator For Startups in Nigeria, Kenya & Ghana

Social entrepreneurship network Ashoka and pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim have launched an 11-month accelerator programme Making More Health (MMH). The

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Nigeria, Kenyan & SA Startups Can Now Apply to Join UK’s Go Global 2019 Programme

UK’s International Tech Hub Network has launched the search for Nigerian, Kenyan, and South African Startups to join the country’s

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12 African Startups Selected For the Land Accelerator in Kenya

World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with Fledge, has launched a 4-day Land Accelerator to train and mentor 12 entrepreneurs from seven

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Kenya’s Twiga Foods Secures $10 Million Investment From The IFC & TLcom

Twiga Foods has announced a $10 million investment led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Global