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Entrepreneurship
First Venture Capital firm in Uganda investing in start-up & early-stage companies
Mara Launchpad is an entrepreneurship centre/ accelerator in Kampala, Uganda. It exists to provide young businesses in Kampala a professional office s…
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Case studies
Research Report: An inside look at Nairobi’s iHub
As part of a year-long study on various ICT Hubs across Africa, the iHub Research conducted a 3-month study to understand the iHub model,
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Case studies
Announcing the 2012 Cameroon Startup Challenge
Today, VC4Africa, the largest online community of venture capitalists, angels and entrepreneurs dedicated to building businesses in Africa, and Sanaga…
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Entrepreneurship
Venture financed Kopo Kopo paves the way for African based startups
Last month the Kopo Kopo team moved into their new office to accommodate their growing number of employees. From this space, situated on the
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Case studies
Strengthening the VC pipeline, take aways from the AVCA panel in Accra
VC4Africa was pleased to host the panel, ‘Strengthening the VC pipeline’ at the 9th Annual Conference for the African Venture Capital Association mee…
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Entrepreneurship
Startup Weekend Dakar connects Francophone Africa to international startup scene
This is a guest post written by Yann Le Beux, @CTICDakar – Incubator and Accelerator In recent years, Africa as a whole has experienced an
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Case studies
VC4Africa members come together for the second Abuja Meetup
Recently, member Silas Okwoche took the initiative to organize and host the second VC4Africa meet up in Abuja, Nigeria. We had a chance to
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Entrepreneurship
The first technology focused Venture Capital company in Zimbabwe
Today we had a chance to connect with Geoff Goss, the founder of Matamba Anonaka Technology Holdings (MATHs), the first technology focused Venture Cap…
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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
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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
