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- 21 Jan 2022
Africa’s Start-ups Can Now Apply to Pitch at Startup Summit 2022
Africa Tech Summit has opened applications to the 2022 edition of Pitch Live at the fourth Africa Startup Summit. Ten start-ups will be selected to present their companies solution and overall ask on…
- 31 Jan 2014
Easy Taxi Features on CNN’s Africa Start-Up
Easy Taxi, Nigeria’s leading Taxi hailing company has featured on CNN’s Africa Start-Up, a new programming strand that shines the spotlight on African Start-ups and entrepreneurs. This is a milestone…
- 16 Oct 2020
Digital Africa Secures €130m Funding for African Start-ups
Digital Africa has secured €130 million in funding from the French government, to support African start-ups. Launched in 2018 by the French Development Agency, Digital Africa’s mission is to promote…
- 13 Mar 2019
Ampion, Plutos Ventures Launch New Venture for Africa-focused Start-ups
Africa-focused Ampion and Berlin-based Plutos Ventures Holding announced the founding of Ampion Ventures. The goal of the new project is to build scalable digital business models in selected African…
- 31 Jan 2022
Africa’s Tech Start-ups Attracted US$2bn Investment in 2021
Investment into the African tech start-up ecosystem trebled over the course of 2021 that saw total funding pass the US$2-billion mark for the first time. This is according to the seventh edition of…
- 2 Mar 2026
AfDB Supports Francophone Africa Start-ups with €6.5M
The African Development Bank Group last week approved an investment of €6.5 million in the Saviu II fund in order to support technology start-ups through their seed phase and first institutional…
- 12 Jun 2017
Orange Digital Investment Launches €50m for Start-ups in Africa
Orange is strengthening its corporate venture strategy by creating a new Africa section in its flagship programme for investment in start-ups, Orange Digital Ventures. As part of this initiative, the…
- 29 Jan 2020
Nigeria Leads as Africa’s Tech Start-ups Attract $2bn Investment
In 2019, 243 African tech start-ups raised a total of $2.02 billion in equity through 250 rounds, representing a 74% growth year-on-year that saw Nigeria attracting the highest. This is according to…
- 22 Jul 2015
DEMO Africa Names Top 30 Tech Participating Start-ups
DEMO Africa on Tuesday released a list of the thirty technology start-ups from across Africa that will pitch at the 2015 edition of the DEMO Africa event. Last year’s giant, Nigeria, tops the list…
- 4 Sept 2014
Nigeria Hosts, Tops List of Start-Ups for DEMO Africa 2014
DEMO Africa, one of the flagship initiatives of LIONS@frica, has released the names of the 40 start-ups that have qualified to launch their products on the DEMO Africa stage in September 2014.…
- 19 Jan 2018
IFC Supports Launch of €100m Fund on Digital-technology Start-ups in Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has helped Partech Ventures launch a €100 million fund that is expected to become the largest venture-capital fund focused on digital-technology start-ups in…
- 25 Apr 2017
XL Africa to Boosts Investment in Digital Start-ups
The World Bank Group, through its newly launched XL Africa programme, will help 20 selected digital start-ups attract early stage capital between $250 000 and $1.5 million. XL Africa is a five-month…
- 3 Mar 2020
Microsoft Supports Start-ups in Africa with Social Impact Business Models
Microsoft has launched its Global Social Entrepreneurship Programme to support start-ups and SMEs who have social impact business models. Speaking at the recently concluded Sanklap Africa Summit…
- 14 Jun 2022
Africa’s Tech Start-up Ecosystem to Attract Over US$10bn by 2025
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and improved internet connectivity is helping Africa attract funding and a large percentage of business leaders on the continent say its tech start-up ecosystem will…
- 11 Jul 2014
Nigeria Leads DEMO Africa’s 40 Best Tech Start-ups
DEMO has released the names of the forty start-ups that have qualified to launch their product on the DEMO Africa stage in September 2014. Topping the list is Nigeria with a total of 14 start-ups…
- 10 Feb 2016
Orange Unveils Entrepreneur Club for Start-Ups in Africa, Middle East
Orange is launching the Entrepreneur Club, a new space for information in French and English devoted to entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East. The website is a source of information for…
- 28 May 2024
Orange, Digital Africa Partner to Grow Tech Start-ups
Orange has provided more resources to deepen and expedite support for African tech start-ups as they navigate and thrive in a fast-evolving digital world. Under its Orange Ventures arm, the…
- 29 May 2026
Report Shows Start-ups Fuel Innovations in Africa
Bloomberg has released its second annual "25 African Startups to Watch" list, underscoring the growing influence of venture-backed innovation across the continent. Published thursday, the list…
- 20 Mar 2026
African Tech Start-ups to Receive $46m of Speedinvest Africa Fund
African technology start-ups will receive a $46 million (€40 million) commitment from EIB Global, the development arm of the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funds will be deployed through the…
- 21 Jan 2021
African Tech Start-up Funding Passes US$700m in 2020
2020 was a record year for investment into the African tech start-up ecosystem, with more start-ups raising more money, from more investors, than ever before. This is according to the sixth edition…
- 7 Sept 2022
African Start-ups Selected for BFF to Share of US$4m
Google has announced that sixty eligible black-founded start-ups across Africa have been selected for the second cohort of Google for Startups Black Founders Fund (BFF) for Africa. The company said…
- 14 Sept 2021
GIIG Launches $100m Innovation Fund to Invest in African Start-ups
The Global Innovation Initiative Group (GIIG), an investment vehicle for early-stage tech start-ups, has established a new fund to invest in early-stage tech innovation start-ups across Africa. The…
- 18 Jan 2024
UNDP Launches $1bn Innovation Fund for African Start-ups
To support business start-ups across Africa, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a $1 billion innovation fund to fund their initiatives. Named the “timbuktoo Africa…
- 12 Sept 2024
Four Nigerian Start-ups Selected for NBA Africa Startup Accelerator’ Demo Day
NBA Africa has unveiled the list of ten startup companies from seven African countries selected for the Demo Day at the NBA headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, Sept. 25 as part of…
- 8 Oct 2014
Real IT Start-Ups Being Created In Africa-Duckenfield
Following researches and evidences in support of the case for Africa’s emergence into the global economic landscape, Mr. David Duckenfield, deputy assistant secretary for Outreach, Bureau of Public…
- 23 Jan 2018
African Start-ups Bag $195m in Funding for 2017
Funding in African tech start-ups has surged 51% to reach $195 million in 2017 as compared to figures of same period in 2016. This is according to a newly released report from African…
- 7 Mar 2022
Microsoft Announces New Initiatives to Support 10,000 African Start-ups Over Next Five Years
Not less than 10,000 start-ups across the African continent would benefit from series of initiatives put together by Microsoft aimed at fast-tracking investment in Africa’s start-up ecosystem over…
- 26 Dec 2018
Inlaks Inaugurates ‘thehatch’ to Scale Fintech Start-Ups
Inlaks, a system integrator company in sub-Saharan Africa, has introduced its innovation lab called ‘thehatch’ to scale fintech start-ups in Nigeria and other African countries. The company,…
- 1 Apr 2020
Top African Start-ups to Benefit from VC Fund
Top African start-ups in the logistics and supply chain sector are first in line to benefit from a new corporate venture capital (CVC) fund organised by Newton Partners and backed by major…
- 12 Oct 2022
Funding for African Tech Start-ups Drops 54% in Q3
The level of funding for- and value in deals with African tech start-ups fell by 54% and 13% respectively on a quarter-on-quarter basis for the period to the end of September 2022 – this despite…