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Entrepreneurship
Accion launches $10 million seed fund, a new catalyst for East Africa
Access to seed or early stage funding for African startups remains a challenge. With little track record, lack of collateral and questionable exit opp…
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Entrepreneurship
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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Entrepreneurship
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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Entrepreneurship
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…
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Case studies
Check out the top ranked ventures in Uganda
Here is a list of the top ten ventures from Uganda as ranked by the VC4Africa community. 1) Yo! Payments Uganda Yo! Payments is
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Case studies
How to get investors to notice your venture in 5 easy steps
Congratulations your venture has been published to VC4Africa! So now what? To be honest … the process has just started :) Given the current
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Entrepreneurship
A Ghanaian entrepreneur sparking a tech revolution
The story of Herman Chinery-Hesse and the challenges, trends and opportunities in Africa’s IT field. See this video for a portrait on this entre…
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Entrepreneurship
Info160: Location based advertising via SMS in Kenya
Also in the new year new ideas are coming in via the VC4Africa website. Let’s now meet the young Kenyan entrepreneur Nick Hargreaves Onyango,
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Case studies
REPORT – What happened at the first VC4Africa meetup in Accra?
Joshua-Derek Bossman tweeted Friday night, ‘Just leaving the #VC4Africa meetup. All I can say is WOW! A real pleasure meeting up with @Abocco, E…
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Entrepreneurship
VIDEO – Mohamed Ibrahim, founder of Africa’s telecommunications revolution
We wanted to end the year with a collection of some of the greatest thinkers and doers of our time. This week we are