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Flab Accelerator seeking Ghanaian Female-led Tech Startups

Applications are open to the Innohub flab Accelerator, seeking female-led tech startups to join the six-month Ghana-based programme. The fLab programme seeks to promote innovative technology entrepreneurship among women, by providing female-owned tech startups with product development and business development support. The accelerator is currently seeking 20 entrepreneurs with innovative, high-growth, social impact ventures looking […]

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Five Agri-tech Startups Ioin Senegal Accelerator

Five agri-tech startups have been selected to join the Senegal Startup Accelerator run by Kosmos Innovation Centre and Reach for Change; receiving six months’ incubation and US$2,000 seed funding. The Senegal Startup Accelerator aims to support young Senegalese entrepreneurs with innovative ideas tackling the challenges facing the agriculture sector using technology. The programme – run […]

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  • December 24, 2018

Africa-based Entrepreneurs Join Global Endeavor Network

Eight more Africa-based entrepreneurs have been chosen to join the global Endeavor network, which will see them gain access to mentorship and acceleration. Endeavor, which launched in Nigeria and Kenya this year, and has accepted a host of African entrepreneurs into its network, works to catalyse long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the […]

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  • December 21, 2018

Egyptian Bank Launches Dedicated Fund for Fintech Start-ups

Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB) has launched CVentures, a corporate venture capital firm focused on investing in transformational fintech startups and next generation financial services platforms. CIB said the establishment of CVentures reflected its deep and continued commitment towards Egypt’s largely untapped financial services industry, and the importance of fintech as a key driver of […]

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  • December 17, 2018

Moroccan e-Commerce Startup WaystoCap Coming to West Africa

Moroccan B2B e-commerce startup WaystoCap is busy expanding in the West African region having opened offices in Burkina Faso and Togo to add to its existing operations in Benin. WaystoCap allows African businesses to buy and sell products, helping them to discover products, verify them, obtain financing and insurance, manage their shipments, and ensure payments […]

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  • December 11, 2018

Insurtech SA Startup Pineapple Joins Accepted US-based Accelerator

South African startup Pineapple has been accepted into the Hartford Insurtech Hub accelerator programme as it prepares to launch its product in the United States (US). Pineapple, which raised funding last year and took part in Google’s Launchpad Africa accelerator earlier this year, is the world’s first insurance network, allowing members to insure things with […]

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  • November 30, 2018

Four Winners of Google Impact Challenge go Home with $250 000

The South African leg of the Google Impact Challenge has come to an end, with four local non-profits being given $250 000 each to enable change in the country using technology. The four winners are: MeMeZa Shout Crime Prevention, a community alarm system for low-income areas (which won the people’s choice award); Corruption Watch, an […]

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  • November 21, 2018

MTN opens Mobile Money Application Program Interface,Unveils fund for Startups

MTN Uganda today became the first telecom company in Uganda and in the MTN Group to grant access to third-parties to its Mobile Money Access Programming Interface (API) thereby opening up the space for mobile money revolution in Africa. The Mobile Money Open Application Program Interface (API) will now be accessed by third parties; the […]

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  • November 14, 2018

Booking.com Splashes $2.3m on African Travel Start-Ups

Global travel and accommodation marketplace Booking.com is inviting startups from across the world working in the space of sustainable travel to apply for support from its EUR2 million (US$2.3 million) fund. Booking.com has opened applications for the third edition of its Booking Booster Programme, which will select 10 social enterprise startups in the sustainable tourism […]

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Mastercard Foundation Launches $2m Fund for African Social Ventures

The Mastercard Foundation has announced a new fund that will enable young African changemakers to seed and kick-start promising social ventures and community projects, creating economic opportunities for themselves and others. The Mastercard Foundation is one of the largest such organisations in the world, and was established to advance learning and promote financial inclusion for […]

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