Startups, Stay in South Africa (Interview)
Technology start-ups and the entrepreneurs who lead them should tackle the “many great opportunities” in South Africa and Africa more broadly rather than trying to emulate his decision to move...
Yearly Archives: 2014
R100 000 worth of prizes up for grabs in the Startup Knight competition
Local Python software development company Byte Orbit is calling on all tech entrepreneurs to enter the third annual Startup Knight competition for the chance to win total prizes of R160 000 cash...
Log on and learn: The tech geeks working to transform Africa’s education
Every week, African Start-Up follows entrepreneurs in various countries across the continent to see how they are working to make their business dreams become reality. (CNN) — Fresh faced and...
Gartner: Top Ten Tech Trends for 2015
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2014 in Cape Town that occurred from September 12-14th, Gartner (a world leading information technology research and advisory company) highlighted what they believe are the top...
SOP Notify Brings Power Monitoring to Nigeria
Before they selected their first office in Abuja, Nigeria, the team behind power monitoring and outage alert provider SOP notify thought they’d done thorough due diligence. They’d been to the...
Jumia, BCG expecting huge e-commerce growth in Egypt
In a recent report conducted by Jumia Egypt and the Boston Consulting Group, huge growth in e-commerce is expected to occur in Middle East and Northern Africa. Currently, e-commerce currently generates...
Facebook Hits 100 Million Users in Africa
100M. That is the number of Africans that Facebook has reported to be using the social network in the continent. This figure is half of all the Internet users in...
Mobile is officially here
Google has released new data that shows the mobile use in South Africa has blasted by initial projections. An article released by South African publication, BusinessTech, explains the research released...
Forget funding: 5 things South African tech entrepreneurs really need to start caring about
And it’s probably not bitcoin. In the last couple of years, startups – especially within the tech sector – have (finally) been given a bit more time in the spotlight....
8 African Tech Startups That May Have An Edge
Geneva-based Seedstars, a venture capital firm that holds competitions for startups, will award $500,00 to one of about 35 tech startup companies in developing markets around the world that make...
Ebola, Boko Haram and E-commerce; An Unlikely Partnership
VENTURES AFRICA – That the Boko Haram insurgency and Ebola outbreak in Nigeria should be associated with whatsoever positive benefit will be considered preposterous in many quarters, including mine. But...
M2M boost for solar kiosk tech in Africa
Kiosks that generate enough energy to operate a cellular router and recharge 220 mobile phones per day are getting a machine to machine (M2M) boost. Digital security firm Gemalto has...
40 African tech Start-ups seeking money at DEMO Africa
VENTURES AFRICA – Microsoft Corporation has offered financial support for the 2014 edition of DEMO Africa, an event where 40 tech based start-ups from across Africa are expected to pitch...
Paving the Way for Africa’s High-Tech Agricultural Revolution
A recent study on the African economic outlook reports that the agricultural sector accounts for around 60 percent of Africa’s total employment and about 25 percent of its GDP. This...
WhatsApp dominating South African mobile chat market
CAPE TOWN – South Africans are hooked on WhatsApp as the instant messaging chat application has taken a dominant market share in the country. According to the South African Mobile...
August in Africa: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month
August was an exciting month for a number of African companies, with a batch of funding rounds, acquisitions and new product offerings. Funding and acquisitions International voice messaging company Kirusa acquired...
Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) Launches $500,000 Seed Investment Program
Over the years following the Technology Trends in Nigeria,of key interest has been the constant development of the Nigeria Startup Ecosystem.So it becomes an exciting news when certain progresses are being...
Nigeria conducts $600m transactions via mobile money in two years
BEWTEEN 2012 and now, about $600 million transactions have been carried out through the mobile money platform in Nigeria. This figure, according to the Minister of Communications Technology,...
Jumia launches in Cameroon
E-commerce site Jumia has launched in Cameroon, making the number of countries it is active in to nine. Recently , the company launched in Ghana and Uganda while also expanding...
Young South African entrepreneurs up for R750 000 Anzisha Prize title
Two young South African entrepreneurs have been chosen as finalists in the Anzisha Prize for young African entrepreneurs competition. The Anzisha Prize, now in its fourth year, is hosted by the African...