FarmDrive wins the Thomson Reuters Africa Startups Challenge

FarmDrive wins the Thomson Reuters Africa Startups Challenge

Earlier this year Thomson Reuters, in partnership with Venture Capital For Africa (VC4A), launched an initiative to find the best new companies coming out ..

New data shows growing investor appetite in African early stage startups

Data from the newly published 2016 Venture Finance in Africa research, conducted by VC4Africa, shows that the growing international and local angel investor interest in African ..

VC4Africa launches open data on African startups

VC4Africa launches an API (application programming interface) to embed public venture data from the startup funding platform on external websites, display subsets of venture ..

Exciting times to invest in Africa – Expert comments to 2015 Venture Finance in Africa results

The VC4Africa 2015 Report: Venture Finance in Africa shows the progress of early-stage growth companies across Africa. Jasper Grosskurth, Managing Director at Research Solutions Africa Ltd, reacts ..

Study looks at the rise of the Venture Capital industry in Nigeria

  With the establishment of the Small and Medium-Scale Industries Equity Investment Scheme (SMEIS) in 2001, and the liberalization of the telecommunications sector in ..

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 exception. The ..

Insights Africa, Explore the media habits of consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa

InsightsAfrica is an interactive tool providing critical data about the online behavior of urban consumers in five key African markets: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, ..