Case studiesCrowdsourcing a global movement, an online marketplace for African startups
The Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa) community is dedicated to supporting the growth of Africa’s start up ecosystem. The network building …
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VC4Africa launches open data on African startups
VC4Africa launches an API (application programming interface) to embed public venture data from the startup funding platform on external websites, dis…
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Mobile Web West Africa 2013: “Forget method. Think problem”
Budding tech entrepreneurs must focus on problem rather than method while deploying their mobile and web solutions to succeed in the growing web space
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Mobile Web West Africa 2013: Africa’s mobile focused conference is back!
Next week local and international experts in the mobile web space will converge on Lagos for the third edition of West Africa’s leading mobile
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Building an ecosystem for Angel investing in Africa
From our extensive conversations with entrepreneurs and investors, and supported again by our own research polls with the VC4Africa community, we know…
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Connecting innovators and capital, excitement builds to DEMO Africa 2012
This photo is from Picture Perfect. Check out their blog! If I take a step back, I realize things are moving faster than ever
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Startup Knight Competition: on the hunt for a new generation of startups
Startup Knight is a competition for software based tech startups that are getting ready to start a viable business in South Africa. Byte Orbit,
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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
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mPawa: Mobile job matching for blue-collar recruitment in Africa
On a regular basis we put ventures in the spotlight who have registered on our platform. Today we talk to Ghanaian entrepreneur Maxwell Donkor of
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Study looks at the rise of the Venture Capital industry in Nigeria
With the establishment of the Small and Medium-Scale Industries Equity Investment Scheme (SMEIS) in 2001, and the liberalization of the telecom…