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Entrepreneurship
Infographic: Innovation centres in Africa
A lot has been written about the boom of innovation centres in Africa, but recently mHealth Africa published a great infographic that shows all
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Case studies
Projection of GDP growth in Africa visualized
The Guardian website recently published an African Economic Outlook of 2012. The visualization shows that Africa has emerged as one of the fastest gro…
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Entrepreneurship
Afritickets aims to become the Ticketmaster of Africa
Headquartered in Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos, events promotion and ticketing company Afritickets aims to become a household name for on…
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Entrepreneurship
Ghanaian startup NandiMobile is moving into the next phase of business
In March 2011 the Ghanaian startup NandiMobile was granted the “Best Business” award at the LAUNCH Conference in San Francisco, where more than 100
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Entrepreneurship
Maliyo Games: “We see a huge opportunity for mobile gaming in Africa”
We see many Nigerian ventures sign up to the VC4Africa platform. Maliyo Games is among some of these outstanding initiatives, as they are creating
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Entrepreneurship
‘Buni TV brings quality African video content to web and mobile’
Since VC4Africa launched its new functionalities last month, registered ventures can raise funds through the platform. One of the ventures that are cu…
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Case studies
Mapping African Agriculture, wealth of agro data available online
Data of all kinds are notoriously scarce for Sub-Saharan Africa, and geospatial data—that is, maps—on agriculture, poverty, and the environment are no…
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Entrepreneurship
Mbwana Alliy, Savannah Fund: ‘We want to connect the best African startups to Silicon Valley’
The recently launched Savannah Fund is specializing in US$25k to US$500k investments in early-stage high growth technology ventures. The fund aims to …
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Entrepreneurship
FMO and Oikocredit move to support SMEs in Central and Southern Africa
Recently the Dutch development bank FMO and Oikocredit launched a €10 million fund. The facility will invest predominantly in Central and Southern Afr…
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Entrepreneurship
Pure Fuels, transforming the Kenyan transport sector with marine algae
Fuel is the biggest expense for the transport sector. To reduce the operating costs of Kenyan companies, entrepreneur Daniel Mugenga is transforming u…