VC4A

Top 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2012

After more than four months of work, we are pleased to announce the 40 entrepreneurs selected to launch at the first ever DEMO Africa… read more

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 opportunities,… read more

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… read more

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, Ethel, Makafui, Pious… read more

Nomad: Connected without connection in Togo

Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in… read more

Interview with Vincent Kouwenhoven, founder eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund)

eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) is an exciting entrant to the African startup scene. In a short period of time they have been able… read more

Yo! Payments: Making mobile money transfer work for businesses

Many new ideas are coming in every week via the VC4Africa website. On a regular basis the VC4Africa team places a new venture in… read more

Entrepreneurs harness the power of mobile in Africa, startups abound

What do Gerald Begumisa, Nick Hargreaves, Matt Toplis, Silas Okwoche, Churchill Nanje Mambe and Vince Diop have in common? They are all mobile entrepreneurs.… read more

Andrew Mugoya: ‘African app developers have to forge a niche in the global marketplace’

Although the newly published E-book ‘African Apps in a Global Marketplace’ by Andrew Mugoya is aimed at software developers, it contains useful advice for… read more

Africa’s mobile opportunity, a look at Mobile Web Africa 2011

Today we had a chance to connect with Matthew Dawes, the Managing Director of All Amber. Specifically we wanted to talk about the mobile… read more