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Meet the Dropifi team: winners of the Startup Weekend Accra
From left to right: Kamil Nabong, David Osei and Effah Philips Mensah Dropifi won the recent Startup Weekend Accra competition. Let’s get personal and
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VC4Africa launches new tools for entrepreneurs
We believe that the peer-to-peer structure of VC4Africa is what differentiates our platform and gives it a unique strength. The potential for VC4Afric…
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Mekina: Cutting out the car salesman in Addis Ababa
Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in
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Impact Investing: Passing Buzz or Paradigm Shift?
Photography from Middle Class in Africa By: Bart Meijs – founder and CFO of InReturn Capital and the InReturn East Africa Fund. Bart will
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Hacking Startups in 48 hours – Interview with Ragnar Sass, the Co-founder of Garage 48
Many people are afraid to start their own business. Common issues include lack of know-how and co-founders, lack of seed money, afraid of the risks, e…
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Messaging platform Dropifi winner Startup Weekend Accra
This article was written by Mac-Jordan. Twitter: @MacJordaN This past weekend, Startup Weekend Accra took place at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial Schoo…
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Are you ready to secure funding for your business?
At VC4Africa we want to see entrepreneurs realize their potential. As a network we seek to mobilize knowledge and resources needed to see the
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Ethamco: Bringing organic fruit and vegetables to market in Ethiopia
In September VC4Africa visited Ethiopia and there we met with Kebede Gashaw, a very inspiring entrepreneur who is moving back to Ethiopia from the
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Interview with Vincent Kouwenhoven, founder eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund)
eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) is an exciting entrant to the African startup scene. In a short period of time they have been able
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Entrepreneurs find success for their startup on VC4Africa
VC4Africa exists to support entrepreneurs – whether it’s about improving the formulation of an idea, gaining some media exposure, making a meani…
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Yo! Payments: Making mobile money transfer work for businesses
Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in