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Startups
Kalon Venture Partners leads a $1.5M round investment into SA startup Flow
South African venture capital firm Kalon Venture Partners has announced a lead investment of $1,465,400 in local proptech platform Flow, an…
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CDC announces new investment to support high-growth SMEs in Nigeria
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, has announced a new investment designed to support high-growth SMEs in Nigeria. CDC has…
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MEST opens applications for its $50 MEST Africa startup Challenge
MEST Africa has opened applications for its second annual MEST Africa Challenge, a Pan-African pitch competition for tech scale-ups based…
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Branch raises Ksh 500M arranged by Centum-owned advisory firm, Barium Capital
All commercial paper issuances have been arranged by the Centum-owned advisory firm, Barium Capital. This latest investment will be used…
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Solar energy company SolarNow has raised $9M to scale its services across Uganda
Uganda-based solar energy company SolarNow has raised $9 million in debt arranged by SunFunder, a longtime debt financier for the…
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M-KOPA raises new funding from Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation
M-KOPA has raised funding from Japanese multinational, Sumitomo Corporation to empower homes and small businesses. The deal was announced on December…
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South Africa’s insurtech startup Pineapple accepted into US Insurance accelerator
More than a year and a month after insurance tech startup Pineapple raised R5.2m from Lireas Holdings, the strategic investment…
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Uganda’s Ultra-affordable ultrasound startup M-SCAN wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
Uganda’s ultra-affordable ultrasound startup M-SCAN is the winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018. The startup was crowned as Sub-Saharan…
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Johnson & Johnson has Launched a US$50,000 Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0
Johnson & Johnson has launched the Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0, a continent-wide competition calling on African innovators to…
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After Nairobi, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa competition now heads to Lagos
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield in partnership with Facebook is returning to Africa. This time around the startup competition will be held…
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MEST unveils its fourth African tech hub in Nairobi
The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has unveiled its fourth incubator and tech hub in Nairobi. The pan-African entrepreneurial…
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Internet Society Partners with Facebook to Expand Internet Connectivity in Africa
The Internet Society is partnering with Facebook to develop Internet Exchange Points (IXP) throughout Africa. An Internet Exchange Point is…
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2018 Connected Kenya Summit awards officially unveiled
ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has today officially unveiled the 2018 Connected Kenya Summit Innovation Awards.The awards will this time…
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COLUMNS
Explaining the High Cost of Remittance to African Countries
The World Bank recently released a study report with findings that the cost of remitting cash to African nations is…
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Startups
Kenyan solar startup Agsol among Microsoft Airband Grant Fund winners
Kenyan solar startup Agsol is among three startups that have been selected for Microsoft’s third annual Airband Grant Fund. The…
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Tanzania’s startup Nala wins 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge
Tanzanian startup Nala is the winner of this years’ Ecobank Fintech Challenge. Nala beat ten other finalists to emerge as the…
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Africa Rising: How millennials and entrepreneurship are driving the African economy
By Clemens Weitz, CEO: ROAM (Ringier One Africa Media) In recent months, Africa has seen several big announcements of international…
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Kenyan Startup Mookh Africa wins Visa Everywhere Initiative Top Prize
Kenyan Startup Mookh Africa is the overall winner of the Visa Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) Everywhere Initiative, The startup won…
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News
More than half of Sub-Saharan Africa to be connected to mobile by 2025
More than half of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa will be connected to mobile service by 2025. This means there…
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Tech Tamasha annual conference launches to celebrate Kenya’s technology space
Last week together with a number of tech enthusiasts and industry leaders we gathered at Nailab for the launch of…
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Zimbabwe’s Agri-tech startup SMART Connect wins DEMO Africa Harare Tour
Zimbabwe’s Agri-tech startup SMART Connect has emerged the winner of DEMO Africa Innovation tour held by Micah Foundation in Zimbabwe,…
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The African Tech Hubs pioneering innovation: How digital transformation can drive growth and job creation across emerging economies
Innovation and entrepreneurship play an ever-increasing role in growing Africa’s emerging technology ecosystem. According to research by the GSMA Ecosystem…
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BUSINESS
Alipay and WeChat Pay expanding to Kenya. What does this mean for M-Pesa?
China’s biggest Internet-based mobile messaging platform, WeChat has been planning to go international for a long time now. In fact,…
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World Bank Injects Ksh.5 Billion To Support Kenyan SMEs
In a major development, the World Bank has today announced that it has injected Ksh. 5 billion to support Kenya’s Small…
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Uganda’s startup TIFAT wins DEMO Africa Uganda Innovation Tour
TIFAT a farm technology that connects farmers to a buyer’s marketplace has emerged the winner of the DEMO Africa Uganda…
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Blockchain
Fintech SandBox Policy to be Ready by July 2018, Says CMA Boss, Paul Muthaura
Regulation in the Blockchain and crypto space is inevitable and coming very soon. To enable this, Capital Markets Authority is…
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Who wants complimentary passes to the Finnovation Africa: Kenya 2018 summit?
The Finnovation Africa: Kenya 2018 summit is coming to Nairobi on 31st May 2018. The event will bring together more…
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Orange Digital Ventures announces new $8.6 million investment in Kenya’s Africa’s Talking
Orange Digital Ventures Africa has announced its first investment in an African startup. The technological investment fund will help Nairobi…
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Industry Leaders Define How FinTech is Accelerating Positive Transformation of Banking in Africa
The FinTech space in Africa is witnessing rapid growth as innovative new financial services players disrupt the traditional modalities of…
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Visa opens up the first Visa Everywhere Initiative to young developers at the Nairobi Tech Week
Visa has announced that it will be opening up the first Visa Everywhere Initiative for Sub Saharan Africa to young developers…
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Blockchain
4 Organizations Spearheading Blockchain Education in Kenya
Currently, the blockchain hype is at an all-time high, not only in Kenya but also across the globe. There are…
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Smart City Global Summit to be held in Africa in June
International government and industry leaders are set to gather in Algiers, Algeria for the Smart City Global Summit to held…
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FinTech in South Africa: Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Banking & Financial Services
Ethico Live has announced the launch of Finnovation South Africa summit. The event will see participants from established banking powerhouses…
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Orange and OpenClassrooms partner to provide digital technology training to young Africans.
Orange has announced a new partnership with online education platform OpenClassrooms to provide digital technology training to young Africans. …
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Blockchain
Trescon’s World Blockchain Summit Series 2018 is coming to Nairobi
Trescon will be hosting the next edition of World Blockchain Summit on 22-23 March 2018 in Nairobi City, the capital…
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Liquid Telecom and other Industry leaders to gather in Kigali for the Africa Tech Summit.
Industry leaders will from 14th -15th February gather in Kigali Rwanda for the Africa Tech Summit. They will include international…
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On-demand co-working space Workstyle launches in Kenya
Workstyle, a new serviced office and co-working space has launched in Kenya in what it says is to enhance creativity…
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Growing Africa’s digital ecosystem by bringing high touch to high tech
The international tech community is nurturing Africa’s digital ecosystem by supporting skills development, technology adoption and the growth of digital…
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COLUMNS
4 Key Essentials of E-learning in Africa
The rate of technological advancement in Africa is growing rapidly. Introduction of computer and internet in the 20th century has…
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Kenyan Startup Lori Systems wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2017
The winners of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2017 have been announced. The winners were selected from 15 startups from…
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Online Education: Linking Up Africa With Some of the Best Colleges in the World
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Answer to Higher Education Bill Gates wrote in his 2015 letter to his foundation, that soon, world class…
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COLUMNS
Guest Post: 3 basic EdTech features everyone should know
A new educational frontier for Africa EdTech is the use of digital education technology to facilitate teaching and learning. It’s…
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BUSINESS
Jumia Named Among MIT Top 50 Smartest Companies 2017
Jumia Group (formerly Africa Internet Group), has for the second consecutive year been named in the list of MIT’s 50…
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COLUMNS
East Africa is the edtech hotspot
Opportunities Arising from Increases In Affordable Internet Access For many people Africa is known for the poverty of the people,…
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Social Media
Facebook unveils 60 finalists for its Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge
Facebook has unveiled the 60 finalists that will battle it out for the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. Launched in…
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News
World Bank’s XL Africa Program to Support Africa’s Top Digital Entrepreneurs
The World Bank Group has launched a five-month acceleration program to support 20 most promising startups from Sub-Saharan Africa. Known…
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Microsoft and Liquid Telecom partner to provide cloud services across Africa
Microsoft East Africa has joined hands with Liquid Telecom to improve and accelerate the use of cloud services across Africa.…
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Facebook launches Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge for Middle East and Africa
Facebook has launched a Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge for developers across the Middle East and Africa. The challenge will…
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Andela named most innovative company in Africa
Andela has been named among the most innovative companies in Africa by Fast Company. Each year, Fast Company recognizes enterprises…
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BUSINESS
Why Wechat is a threat to Safaricom’s M-Pesa.
A few days ago I visited Chinese internet finance museum for a blockchain event organized by okcoin, one of Bitcoin’s…
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Startups
Applications for the 2017 DEMO Africa now open
Applications for the 2017 edition of DEMO Africa are now open. African Startups can now apply for a chance to…
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Mozambican startup develops a solar powered tablet to provide internet to rural African homes
Mozambican technology start-up Kamaleon has developed a solar-powered mobile tablet to connect more Africans to the internet. Launched in November…
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Bonjour Idée launches first African edition of the Startup of the Year competition
Bonjour Idée, the collaborative magazine for startups has launched the first African edition of the Startup of the Year competition.…
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COLUMNS
Guest Post: Partnering for inclusive and transformative digital education in Africa
By Kunle Awosika, A considerable 92% of government decision-makers in the field of education throughout Africa believe that e-learning is…
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AFROPX is launching an online platform focused on African images
AFROPX, a startup that wants to transform access to African photos has announced plans to launch an online marketplace focused…
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Safaricom announces investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund.
Safaricom has announced an investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. The Safaricom Spark Venture…
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COLUMNS
#KillTheICTBill: Proposed ICT Practitioners Bill 2016 archaic and misinformed
Kenyans and Players in the ICT sector are raising concerns over the proposed The proposed Information and Communication Technology Practitioners…
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Andela just received a huge banking from Mark Zuckerberg
Andela, a startup that trains software developers in Africa and gives them full-time opportunities at international companies has received a…
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Interviews
”We were lucky to get into the Techstars incubator” – Bamba Group
In February this year, prominent US accelerator Techstars selected Kenyan Startup Bamba Group as the first East African company, they…
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Justice Tech: ShopOfficer receives 10,000 USD grant from HiiL Innovating Justice
We have all had instances where technology has been used to explore and solve contemporary issues. Many positive forms of…
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Global Tech Investor Techstars to mentor and invest in Kenya’s Bamba Group
Global Tech investor Techstars has selected Kenya’s Bamba Group as its first company from East Africa that they will invest…
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How PortableVoices is changing information sharing in Kibera
With the world changing at a rapid pace, so many industries rising, technology leading to more efficient and effective ways…
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#CES2016: Eureka Park Exhibitors Funded at more than $1 Billion Since 2012
Startup companies exhibiting in the Eureka Park Marketplace at this years Consumer Electronic Show (CES) have been funded at more…
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WrapUp: Some of the interesting stories featured on TechTrendsKE in 2015
2015 is almost coming to an end, a year that has seen so much growth in Kenyan and African tech…
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HiiL Innovating Justice’s SME Empowerment Challenge enters a voting phase for East & West Africa Innovators
The online campaign phase for the SME Empowerment Challenge East and West Africa has officially started. This Challenge was developed…
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USIU, Tech Republic launch Innovation Boot Camp to equip teens with coding skills
Tech Republic has partnered with The United States International University-Africa to offer upper primary and secondary pupils aged 12 –…
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Memorable Quotes From #GES2015Kenya
Now that the dust of Global Entrepreneurship Summit has that was held in Kenya for the first time last weekend…
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IBM Opens First Cloud Data Center in Italy
In an effort to continue strengthening its global cloud presence in the European market, IBM has opened its first cloud data…
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BUSINESS
SME empowerment innovation challenge to highlight business potential in Sub-Saharan Africa
From June until December of this year, HiiL Innovating Justice, an advisory and research institute within the justice sector, based…
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Startups
PIVOT East 2015 Semi-finalists Announced
PIVOT East, a startups competition geared towards nurturing the growing ICT talent in East Africa, has unveiled semifinalist for this…
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Hellofood rolling out an automated system to ensure faster food delivery.
According to a recent article carried out by Forbes, food delivery startups should really be called restaurants simply because the…
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The 2015 GIST Tech-I Competition launched
Do you have a great science or technology startup or an idea? The U.S. Department of State is calling on you…
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Dr. Ndemo and German Scholar create Kenya’s first management Book with focus on Start-ups
Dr. Bitange Ndemo and Tim Weiss a German Scholar, have come together to work on a book that seeks to…
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‘AMPION Venture Bus’ tour heads to Tunisia
The final leg of the ‘AMPION Venture Bus’ tour is scheduled to begin next week from 14th– 19th December and…
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Microsoft 4Afrika announces 2nd round of innovation grant winners
Microsoft 4Afrika has announced the 2nd round of innovation grant winners. The seven new African startups will receive funding, technical support and mentorship…
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Apps
Can’t touch this: New camera app to revolutionise selfies
A Swedish startup aims to make the lives of smartphone users a little bit easier with the launch of a…
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55 STUDENTS GRADUTE FROM SAFARICOM ACADEMY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY
55 students have completed a two year course that will develop their leadership and entrepreneurial skills to meet the growing…
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HP to invest over $1Bn in Open-Source Cloud Computing
Hewlett-Packard plans to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to develop and offer cloud-computing products and…
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Apple set to buy headphone-maker Beats Electronics for $3.2 bn
Apple Inc is close to paying a record $3.2 billion for Beats Electronics, two people with knowledge of the matter…
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List of the PIVOT EAST semifinalists is finally out
PIVOT East has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s competition after a call for applications in February 2014 with startups from…
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Facebook Plans to Launch a Mobile Payments Service
Facebook is preparing to join the mobile-payments race with remittances and electronic-money services on the social network. According to a…
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