- Entrepreneurship
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
- Entrepreneurship
Follow Friday: Technology hubs in Africa on Twitter
Twitter is our main source of news and updates and we like the many ‘who to follow’ lists. Every third Friday of the month
- 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
- Entrepreneurship
Christof Henz, VerySol: “Solar energy solution for high fuel prices in Nigeria”
Recently we started the ‘VC4Africa Booster Program,’ a unique opportunity for a select number of VC4Africa registered ventures. As part of this progra…
- 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
- Entrepreneurship
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
- Case studies
Tips for building social traction for your venture on VC4Africa
Congratulations your venture has been published to VC4Africa! So now what? To be honest the process has just started :) The road to funding
- Case studies
VC4Africa and the emergence of an African startup culture
VC4Africa was started in 2008 and has since grown into a healthy and thriving network of entrepreneurs and investors. After experimenting with free co…
- 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,
- Entrepreneurship
EarlyLife Online Radio: A Pan-African platform for the youth
Also in the new year promising business ideas are coming in via the VC4Africa website. Let’s meet Ugandan entrepreneur Grace Atuhaire who is currently