Growing start-ups in Tanzania: Are angel investors a missing link?

Tanzania has been experiencing incredible GDP growth rate averaging at 6% over the past 10 years, this has led to the transformation of many… read more

Innovate for Life Fund announces cohort of 6 healthcare entrepreneurs

Health demands in Africa are growing rapidly due to the continent’s rapidly expanding population, which is expected to double to 2 billion by 2050.… read more

Future of African tech: Educating an army of coders

From the rooftop lounge of Andela’s appropriately named EPIC Towers, the skyline of Nigeria’s coastal economic hub Lagos is littered with telecommunication pylons stretching… read more

Launching XL Africa, a program to position top digital scale-ups for global growth

In partnership with The World Bank Group, VC4A is pleased to announce the launch of XL Africa, a five-month post-acceleration program designed to support… read more

Adansonia: Entrepreneurship training with a social twist

After a pilot project involving 400 entrepreneurs across Uganda, Kenya, and Ghana, a new project named Adansonia – conducted by Bocconi University – is… read more

Do we need a better definition for social entrepreneurship?

It would be an understatement to say that the theme of ‘social entrepreneurship’ is thriving. As I look back at my time so far at… read more

Insights from ‘Digital Kenya’: An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making

Many people wonder what to make out of the entrepreneurial revolution in the tech space on the African continent. Questions such as: Are there… read more

Somali accelerator graduates receive $15,000 investment at Hargeisa Demo Day

Innovate Ventures, the first Somali tech startup accelerator launched in partnership with VC4A, Telesom and the Work in Progress! Alliance, had their first cohort… read more

Crowdsourcing a global movement, an online marketplace for African startups

The Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa) community is dedicated to supporting the growth of Africa’s start up ecosystem. The network building organization started in… read more

Debunking Africa’s startup investing myths, presenting the African opportunity at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2016

Every year, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policy makers and other startup champions from more than 160… read more