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Entrepreneurship
RubyCup: making intimate healthcare products available to woman in East Africa
Good ventures solve real problems. One would expect that the reusable silicon menstrual cup is invented as a product for women in the developing
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Entrepreneurship
Africa Media Ventures Fund: Venture capital for a thriving African media sector
VC4Africa is actively expanding its network of investors. Today we meet Lot Carlier from the Africa Media Ventures Fund (AMVF), an organisation that m…
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Case studies
VC4Africa launches secure network for private investing
VC4Africa is pleased to announce new tools that make private investment easy, secure and social. This is a first for the African space and
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Case studies
Lack of market knowledge cited as the number one reason investors fail
At VC4Africa we like to poll our members on different issues in the effort to extract possibly useful insights. Recently we asked, ‘What are
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Case studies
VC4Africa: the founder’s network for the continent’s leading entrepreneurs
As a start-up founder, you probably have more on your plate than you want to think about. So adding more activities to your daily
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Entrepreneurship
GrowthHub Nairobi: “Jobs have to be created, and not only in the ICT-sector”
Another hub for starting entrepreneurs was opened in Nairobi last Thursday. The GrowthHub, situated close to Yaya Centre, aims to support start-ups an…
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Case studies
Hivos and VC4Africa announce the 2012 Incubator Award
The Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos), a leading Dutch organisation with a worldwide presence, and Venture Capital for Africa (VC…
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Case studies
Investor profile GroFin: Why 30% of SMEs survive their first three years of operation
The photo is of La Decouverte, a Rwanda based venture in Healthcare/Retail. If you require between USD $50.000 to $1.5 million in finance there are
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Entrepreneurship
MyOws: ‘My Original Works’ is the ‘BaseCamp’ for freelancer’s copyright
The newest member of the VC4Africa Booster Programme is the South African venture MyOws. Working in the creative sector Max Guedy, co-founder of MyOws
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Entrepreneurship
First Venture Capital firm in Uganda investing in start-up & early-stage companies
Mara Launchpad is an entrepreneurship centre/ accelerator in Kampala, Uganda. It exists to provide young businesses in Kampala a professional office s…