M-Pesa
Business Technology

Safaricom & Vodacom Set Aside $13m to Buy M-Pesa Rights From Vodafone

Kenya’s Safaricom is to establish a joint venture worth $13 million with South Africa’s Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property

Gokada
Business Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Transport Venture Capital

Gokada Raises $5.3m Series A Funding Led by Rise Capital

Gokada, a Nigerian motorcycle ride-hailing firm has raised $5.3 million Series A round to scale its business. The funding round

Bamboo Capital Partners
Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Investment Technology Venture Capital

Bamboo Capital Partners & Smart Africa Join Forces For Blended Finance Technology Impact Fund

Bamboo Capital Partners, the impact investing platform, has signed a partnership with Smart Africa to support BLOC, the first-of-its-kind blended

Huawei
Business Government Smartphones

Huawei May Debut its Own OS “HongMeng” This Year

Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant has disclosed that it could roll out its own Operating System for smartphones and laptops

Lions Innovation Tour
Africa Entrepreneurship Event Innovation Startup Technology

DEMO Africa Winners Are Set to Storm Silicon Valley For Lions Innovation Tour

Five African startups have been selected from Nigeria; Morocco, Ghana, Tunisia and Egypt for the 2019 Lions Innovation Tour of

Eghosa Omoigui
Africa Entrepreneurship Funding Interview Venture Capital

Nigerian Startups Lost $10m ICT Funds to Corruption Says EchoVC Partners Founder

Eghosa Omoigui is the Founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners, an early-stage and growth-stage technology venture capital firm

NG_Hub
Digital Technology

Facebook Celebrates One Year of NG_Hub

NG_Hub is celebrating exactly a year to the day since it launched in Lagos, and Facebook further cemented its ambitions

Tatisis
Entrepreneurship Interview Startup Technology

Meet Tatisis-A Location-Based Discussion Platform For Everything

In Nigeria today, there are myriads of issues to discuss ranging from health to the economy, technology, relationship, security and

Gricd
Entrepreneurship Event Health Startup

HealthTech Startup Gricd Wins $10k at Africa Fintech Foundry’s Disrupt Conference

Gricd, a healthtech startup which provides affordable, portable and active cold chain devices for efficient storage of vaccines, blood and

TICAD
Africa Entrepreneurship Event Innovation Social Entrepreneurship Startup

Apply to Pitch at TICAD7 If You Have an Innovative SDG Solution

African Tech startups with innovative solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals have been invited to apply for an opportunity