Blog – VC4A
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Entrepreneurship
Cameroon’s tech hub ActivSpaces connects with European Investors
Cameroon’s serial entrepreneur Churchill Nanje Mambe at Barcamp Cameroon Recent research done at VC4Africa showed that access to finance re…
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Case studies
Announcing the Rollout of Ventures 2.0
We’ve been hard at work the past few weeks developing an update to the popular ventures section of the VC4Africa platform. In terms of
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs forge new partnership via VC4Africa
Hasan Giire & Marlon Parker signing the agreement at the VC4Africa office VC4Africa is pleased to announce a partnership between ExtendedBITS and …
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Case studies
A rising middle class, urban Africa drives gains in productivity and consumption
A photo like this captures it all. Check out the photo project Middle Class in Africa. Have you had a chance to look through
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Entrepreneurship
Three reasons to take a new look at investing in Africa
A photo like this captures it all. Check out the photo project Middle Class in Africa. Have you had a chance to look through
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Case studies
Google Insight: A growing interest in Private Equity & Venture Capital in Africa
This morning we ran a Google Insight search for ‘Africa Private Equity’ and these were the results. Google on the website explains, ‘…
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Case studies
VC4Africa nominated for the Accenture Innovation Award
Today Accenture published the nominations for their annual Innovation Awards. VC4Africa is proud to announce that our community was selected out of hu…
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs should conduct due diligence on investors
“Due diligence” is a term used for a number of concepts involving either an investigation of a business or person prior to conducting business.
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Case studies
Africa’s mobile opportunity, a look at Mobile Web Africa 2011
Today we had a chance to connect with Matthew Dawes, the Managing Director of All Amber. Specifically we wanted to talk about the mobile
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Case studies
What can African governments do to support more entrepreneurship?
A recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) finds that in Israel venture capital is relatively easy to obtain.…
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Entrepreneurship
Mobile apps tackle climate change in Africa [Interview Jon Gosier]
Today we had a chance to catch up with Jon Gosier, the founder of Appfrica and HiveColab in Kampala, Uganda. This time we wanted