Dropifi Joins 500 Startups as The First African Startup
500 Startups today unveiled it’s next 28 batch of startups for its Accelerator program. Dropifi, a Ghanaian startup is the first startup from Africa to join 500 startups accelerator program...
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Apply Now: DEMO Africa 2013 Applications Now Open
DEMO Africa, an initiative of LIONS@frica that aims to connect African startups to the global ecosystem has opened applications for the second DEMO Africa start-up launch conference. DEMO Africa 2013 will...
SliceBiz Wins Apps4Africa Prize
Slice Biz, the winner of the 2012 Startup Weekend Accra, a Global Entrepreneurship Week Ghana event has been chosen as one of the winners of this year’s Apps4Africa competition. Slice Biz...
19 Surprising Facts About Africa’s Mobile Market
According to a report published by the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB), at the start of 2012, there were some 650 million mobile subscriptions in Africa, making the African...
SliceBiz Wins Second Startup Weekend Accra
I want to congratulate the SliceBiz team for taking the top prize in today’s presentation at the Start up Weekend Accra event. 14 Teams spent 54 hours refining ideas, doing...
Zimbabwe’s EcoCash Records $70 Million a Month in Mobile Money Transactions
Money money transactions is Africa is growing at an amazing rate. The likes of M-Pesa (the Kenyan grandfather of mobile money), Mozambique’s mKesh, Easywallet in Nigeria, Kenya’s PesaPal, Ghana’s OzinboPay...
DEMO Africa Selects 40 Startups To Launch on DEMO Day
DEMO Africa, a flagship initiative of the Liberating Innovation in Opportunity Nations in Africa (LIONS@frica) which aims to connect African startups to the global ecosystem has announced a shortlist of 40 startups...
Eric Schmidt and Africa’s Savannah Fund Invest $2 Million In biNu Mobile
Low-end smartphone and feature phone users may sometimes want to possess, interact, and use apps available for smartphone users. Well Binu Mobile wants to give them just that. And Eric...
Spinlet Lets You Discover And Download Music From Africa
Music Piracy is a huge concern for music producers, artistes, music distributors etc,. Legitimate music downloads still aren’t growing quickly enough. Confidential data published on torrentfreak reveals that 65% of...
Apply Now: 88mph To Invest In Up to 12 Startups Targeted At the African Market
88mph, a Kenyan startup accelerator that invests in early stage mobile-web companies targeting the African market has opened its applications to local and international tech entrepreneurs. The accelerator invests simultaneously...
Women In Tech: Ghanaian Female Developer Builds Another Web Browser
Rasheeda Mandeeya Yehuza, a Ghanaian female software and game developer has created SnapSO Web Browser (a simple and comprehensive interface browser). Rasheeda’s story is an inspiration to all aspiring female...
DEMO Launches DEMO Africa, To Be In Kenya
DEMO, a technology conference for launching innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies today announced the launch of DEMO Africa. The conference scheduled for ...
Ghanaian Launches Anansi Browser- Africa’s First Web Browser
Raindolf Owusu, a 22 year old Computer Science student in Accra, Ghana has launched a new browser to target Africa’s growing internet users. Anansi Web Browser has recorded 1,072 downloads since it...
Omidyar Network and ACCION Invests $3.2 Million In A Zambian Mobile Payments Startup
Omidyar Network and ACCION International have announced that they have invested US $3.2 million in Mobile Transactions International, a Zambian startup that leverages mobile technology and an agent network to...
Interview With Robert Lamptey, Co-founder of Saya(Ghana’s New Mobile Chat App)
Saya Mobile, a Ghanaian software start-up, developing mobile software and services for high-growth mobile telephony markets in Ghana and Africa has launched its first mobile chat app-Saya in Ghana. Saya...
Flat6Labs(Egyptian Accelerator) Graduates 5 Startups
Without the proper funding, guidance, and understanding of marketing and production, chances are that a newly sprung startup will not have what it takes to survive. Flat6Labs, a new Egyptian...
[REPORT] Mobile Industry Accounted for $56 Billion of Africa’s GDP
The first African edition in the GSMA Mobile Observatory series report conducted in 2011 indicates that in 2010 the mobile industry accounted for $56 billion of Africa’s GDP, which is...
Startup Trends And Predictions For 2012
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” Seth Godin Entrepreneurs love what they do with passion. Mark Cuban said “Find something you love to...
Africa To Record One Billion Mobile Subscriptions By 2016
According to new research by Informa Telecoms & Media, Africa has become the second most connected region in the world in terms of mobile subscription count, up from fourth place...
Meltwater Foundation Invests In 2 New Ghanaian Technology Startups
Meltwater Foundation has invested in 2 new Ghanaian technology startups-ClaimSync and Saya Mobile. The two companies will join six others currently in the MEST incubator program, and hope to launch...