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Entrepreneurship
The 2015 Green Pioneer Accelerator Program launches in Kenya and South Africa
A new acceleration program was announced for green entrepreneurs today at the Seed Africa Symposium 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya. This ambitious, continenta…
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Entrepreneurship
How the rise in corporate venture capital can close Africa’s 100 billion US dollar finance gap for SMEs
This article by Tara Sabre Collier originally appeared on NextBillion and is published with permission. If GE, the fourth biggest company in the worl…
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Entrepreneurship
VC4Africa community calls on leaders to invest in entrepreneurial ecosystem at 5th EU-Africa Business Forum
It is clear Small Medium Sized Enterprises are the backbone of every economy: they are the engines of employment, income generation and economic growt…
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Entrepreneurship
Invitation: Calling the world’s leading investors to back Africa’s top innovators
Now is the time. Now is the time to be investing in Africa. A billion consumers, improving political stability, a rising middle class, continued
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Entrepreneurship
To a new year full of African success stories! The VC4Africa community in 2013 & the year ahead
What started as a conversation between like-minded professionals continues to grow as a thriving community dedicated to African venture finance. VC4Af…
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Entrepreneurship
Join a global series of VC4Africa meetups as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013
We believe entrepreneurship development in Africa can be accelerated when we connect a global network of knowledge and capital. As part of this year&r…
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Entrepreneurship
Results of VC4Africa’s 2013 SME Performance Index
The team at VC4Africa recently reached out to entrepreneurs part of the community to find our more about their progress. These are the results
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Case studiesOnline retail becomes a reality in Africa’s biggest market – behind the scenes with Nigerian Internet startup Jumia
The next global e-commerce company might come from Nigeria rather than Silicon Valley. And why not? With 160 million people, Nigeria is a rising
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Entrepreneurship
VC4Africa introduces VC4A Talent, a free recruitment service for African startups
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve launched a new recruitment function for ventures listed on VC4Africa, the first steps in creating a o…
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Case studies
Towards a vibrant venture capital sector in Africa
What needs to be done, by policy-makers of African governments and others, to create a thriving economic environment for emerging entrepreneurs in Afr…
