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Entrepreneurship
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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Entrepreneurship
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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Entrepreneurship
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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Entrepreneurship
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
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Entrepreneurship
Female entrepreneurs a driving force in African SMEs
The rate of female entrepreneurship is higher in Africa than in any other region of the world. Nomsa Daniels, the Executive Director of New
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Entrepreneurship
European Investors take a serious look at African startups
Presentation at Barcamp Cameroon Today we had a chance to connect with Dariu Trueb, a representative of Ringier AG, one of Europe’s largest medi…
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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
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
Making SME finance work in Africa
Today was the first day of the Making FInance Work in Africa conference here in Addis Ababa. This was a unique opportunity for the
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Entrepreneurship
8 reasons why African startups fail (opinion piece)
Today we had a chance to connect with Jitesh Naidoo. He has been involved in many African countries and focuses on project management, project