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Entrepreneurship
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 …
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Entrepreneurship
VC4Africa community calls on leaders to invest in entrepreneurial ecosystem at 5th EU-Africa Business Forum
It is clear Small Medium Sized Enterprises are the backbone of every economy: they are the engines of employment, income generation and economic growt…
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Entrepreneurship
Invitation: Calling the world’s leading investors to back Africa’s top innovators
Now is the time. Now is the time to be investing in Africa. A billion consumers, improving political stability, a rising middle class, continued
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Entrepreneurship
Results of VC4Africa’s 2013 SME Performance Index
The team at VC4Africa recently reached out to entrepreneurs part of the community to find our more about their progress. These are the results
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Entrepreneurship
VC4Africa introduces VC4A Talent, a free recruitment service for African startups
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve launched a new recruitment function for ventures listed on VC4Africa, the first steps in creating a o…
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Case studies
Accelerating entrepreneurship in Africa, understanding the barriers and challenges
The photo was taken by Felix Masi. See his photo blog. Entrepreneurship is gaining credibility as a vocation in Africa, but it continues to
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Case studies
Are Africa’s entrepreneurs an answer to the jobs challenge?
Africa is the world’s second-fastest-growing region. Poverty is falling, and around 90 million of its households have joined the world’s consuming cla…
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Case studies
Find top talent and recruit your team with VC4Africa’s new tool
At VC4Africa we see a lot of ventures, talk to a lot of entrepreneurs and read many business plans. We know that putting together
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Entrepreneurship
Kenya study, impact of venture capital on small and medium sized enterprise
Venture capital, which is quite prevalent in developed countries, has played a big role in enhancing the growth of SMEs. On one hand they
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Entrepreneurship
M-Kazi: Mobile job-search on basic phones in Kenya
Finding seed funding is one of the major problems African entrepreneurs face when they want to start a company. Nancy Wang and Lino Carcoforo