Events startup Passafree wins Seedstars event in Cape Verde
Events ticketing and marketing app Passafree has been named winner of the Cape Verde leg…
Monthly Archives: September, 2019
Now open: Call for Applications for the GIZ-SAIS Investment Readiness Programme
The project ‘Scaling digital agriculture innovations through startups’ (SAIS), implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für…
Egyptian beauty startup Glamera raises $250k funding round
Egyptian beauty service booking platform Glamera has raised US$250,000 in funding from an unnamed Saudi…
Web4Africa adds over 200 new domain extensions to its offering
Web4Africa, a leading ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar in Africa, has added over 200 new…
Mastercard Foundation to back Senegalese entrepreneurs to tune of $200m
The Mastercard Foundation has committed US$200 million to invest in small Senegalese businesses as it…
Egyptian AI startup Synapse Analytics works on own products after project-based success
Egyptian data science and artificial intelligence (AI) startup Synapse Analytics is developing two, more scalable…
SA fintech startup Yoco launches new card machine, opens access to wider market
South African fintech startup Yoco has launched the Yoco Go, a card machine targeting previously…
UNICEF Innovation Fund seeks startups with innovative learning, job matching solutions
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to make equity-free investments of up to US$100,000 in…
Meet the Investor: Khaled Ismail, HIMangel
Khaled Ismail is one of the best-known angel investors in Egypt, but before that he…
Nigeria’s CcHub acquires Kenya’s iHub to form pan-African entity
The Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) has acquired Kenya’s iHub for an undisclosed fee to form…