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Meet Rasello, the Foursquare SMS disruptor from Tanzania
The Tanzanian startup Rasello is aiming to become the platform where businesses can interact with their clients – via their mobile phones. When …
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Senegal host to first Startup Weekend in Francophone Africa
During the presidential elections of last weekend the world was looking at Senegal and many observers were surprised when Wade handed over the power
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Nurodeli: A mobile listing of services in Mauritius
Mauritius always comes up in the top spots for best governed countries in Afric, but we don’t often hear about entrepreneurs from the island
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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
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US based investor seeks to expand seed stage investing in African tech and innovation
VC4Africa has a growing network of accredited investors that have premium access to VC4Africa listed ventures. We like to profile them from time to
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Video: Inuka Kenya winner first Startup Weekend Nairobi
The winning Inuka team with judge Kamal Budabhati (Craft Silicon) celebrating their first price. The first Startup Weekend Nairobi has been won by Inu…
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Mxit, meet Africa’s 800 pound social network
Paul Stemmet of World Of Avatar, an African focused tech investor, gave a presentation at Mobile Web East Africa (Hashtag: #MWEA2012). In addition to
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Education apps get seedfunding after ‘Tech in’ event CcHub Nigeria
Three out of six teams won seed funding to further develop their ideas that were pitched on Sunday 19 February at the ‘Tech in
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CcHub Nigeria aims to support 30 social tech-ventures in the next two years
The Co-Creation Hub Nigeria, a technology innovations center in Lagos, is working to start 30 profitable social tech ventures in the next two years.
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VC4A ventures make the Forbes list of ‘Africa’s Hottest Startups’
In the February issue of Forbes Africa they publish their list of the ‘Top 20 Start-ups in Africa.’ Criteria for selection included 1) eac…