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- 20 Apr 2016
African Startup TV Launches, Tells African Entrepreneurs Story
African Startup TV has launched as the need to tell the African Entrepreneurship story to the world becomes very‎ important. African Startup TV is a web based TV that features News,…
- 20 Jun 2023
Google Unveils 25 African Startups Shortlisted to Receive $4M Black Founders Fund
Google for Startups (GfS) has announced the 25 African-based startups selected for this year’s $4million Black Founders Fund. The Black Founders Fund, now in its third year, aims to help tackle…
- 11 Jun 2025
African Startups Raised $345m in Funding in May
African startups raised more than $345 million across 65 deals in May, more than double the amount raised in the same period of last year, according to a report by Briter, a research and business…
- 2 Oct 2023
African Startup Funding Drops
The total amount of funding raised by African tech startups in the third quarter of 2023 reached $492 million, which takes the total for the year to date to $1.4 billion. However, that’s down 48%,…
- 12 Nov 2020
Pacer Ventures partners Founder Institute, Doles Out $3M Fund for Early-Stage African Startups
Pacer Ventures has announced a $3M fund for early-stage African startups that are solving some of the most critical problems on the continent. The focus will be on verticals expedient to the African…
- 21 Oct 2025
African Startups Need More Than Money, Industry Leaders Say @ABAN Congress
Investors and industry leaders at the African Business Angel Network (ABAN) Congress emphasised that African startups need more than just funding to succeed, with speakers calling for comprehensive…
- 30 Jan 2024
African Startup Funding Falls 28% to $2.4B in 2023
Total investment into the African digital startup ecosystem dropped by 27.8% to $2.4 billion in 2023, showing the global capital crisis had reached the continent. This is according to research house…
- 11 Feb 2021
African Startup Investments Fall for First Time in Almost a Decade
Funding for African startups slowed for the first time after nearly 10 years of growth as investors in the fledgling tech scene were put off by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to venture capital…
- 10 Jul 2013
CNN Ranks Jobberman in Top 10 African Tech Startups
Jobberman.com, one of the most popular job sites in Nigeria has been ranked in CNN's recently released list of top 10 African tech startups. According to CNN, the listed Tech startups are building…
- 2 Jun 2019
Publiseer Selected as One of The 100 Most Innovative, Promising African Startups
Publiseer, Nigerian digital content distribution platform, has been selected as one of the 100 most innovative and promising African startups to attend the fully funded Africa Moves Summit in…
- 24 Jun 2025
15 African Startups Using AI Selected for Google Accelerator Cohort 9
Google today announced the selection of 15 promising tech startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa Class 9 program. These innovative startups, hailing from Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya,…
- 13 Jul 2026
Nearpays, Nigerian Fintech Becomes First African Startup to Win UN’s AI for Good Innovation Factory
Nearpays, Nigerian fintech, has won the AI for Good Innovation Factory grand finale — the first African startup ever to take the global title in the competition, which runs as part of the United…
- 22 Feb 2024
12 African Startups Draw Full House as Techstars Hosts Demo Day in Lagos
Techstars, the most active startup investor in Africa, held its second pan-African Demo Day in partnership with Lagos-based innovation program, ARM Labs. The ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator Demo…
- 27 Jul 2017
African Startups, Gidi Mobile & Siyavula Secure $2.5m Grants from Google
Google is committing $50M in Googleorg nonprofit grants to help people prepare for the changing nature of work, out of which $20million will be apportioned to Africa. It announced on Thursday an…
- 18 Feb 2020
Carbon Launches $100,000 Entrepreneurship Fund to Champion African Startups
Carbon has set up a $100,000 Pan-African fund to address the lack of funding and support holding back budding tech entrepreneurs on the continent. Carbon’s Disrupt fund, the first of its kind by an…
- 5 Oct 2023
Google Announces 11 African Startups for Inaugural Africa AI First Accelerator program
Google on Thursday unveiled the first cohort for its 'Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First' program. The 11 startups, picked from a vast pool of innovative talent, are using cutting-edge…
- 2 Feb 2022
Oracle Invests $1m to Support African Tech Startups
Oracle has announced support of one million dollars for tech startups in Africa that will help accelerate their digital initiatives with the latest cloud technologies and business resources. Led by…
- 14 Feb 2022
Abiola Bonuola Announces Tech PR Agency for African Startups, VCs & Entrepreneurs
As the world-wide appetite for Africa’s tech ecosystem increases, Public Relations Consultant, Abiola Bonuola who focuses on PR for tech businesses, last weekend, announced the launch of Abiola…
- 23 Aug 2017
African Startups can Scale, Using Technology- Bolaji Finnih
According to a recent Fortune Magazine survey, 42% of Startups say that they did not evaluate the market needs for their various products, solutions and services before launching into the market.…
- 12 Nov 2023
EdenLife CEO, Enegesi Announces Rebrand and Marketplace at African Startup Fest 2023
EdenLife, Innovative lifestyle tech company has announced its rebrand and the launch of Eden Marketplace, a centralised e-commerce platform that will redefine the landscape of online shopping for…
- 10 Jul 2023
Microsoft-backed FAST Accelerator Launches 2nd Cohort of AI Program to Boost African Startups
Flapmax, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company on a mission to enrich the lives of everyone on the planet through innovation, has announced the launch of the second FAST Accelerator program.…
- 22 Sept 2020
Aptive Capital Dangles $10,000 Equity-Investment in Three African Startups
Aptive Capital, a US-based Venture Capital (VC), has announced its investment in three early-stage businesses in Africa; Nigeria, and Uganda. Earlier in June 2020, the Africa-focused investment…
- 19 Jan 2021
African Edtech Startup uLesson Secures $7.5mn Series A Funding
uLesson, the African learning technology platform, has closed a $7.5mn Series A round led by Owl Ventures, with inclusion from existing investors, TLcom Capital and Founder Collective and…
- 12 Mar 2024
UK Opens Portal for African Tech Startups to Apply for UK's New Global Tech Awards
UK’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is on the hunt to unearth the most promising tech start-up companies across the world through the Unicorn Kingdom: Pathfinder Awards. Building on the…
- 17 Apr 2025
Google Launches 2025 AI Startups Accelerator Program for African Innovators
Google has opened applications for the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program, a three-month initiative designed to support early-stage startups using artificial intelligence to address…
- 8 Jun 2015
Demo Africa 2015: EBANk to Support African Tech-Startups
European Business Angel Network (EBAN), the pan-European representative for the early stage investor with over 150 member organizations in 50 countries, would send high-powered delegation to attend…
- 24 Sept 2021
African FinTech Foundry Moves to Grow 40 Startups Businesses
African FinTech Foundry (AFF), Accelerator programme arm of Access Bank, has said its target is to develop and grow as much as 40 portfolios of successful technology startups in the next four years,…
- 11 Feb 2025
Africa’s Startup Funding Increased by 240%
Nigeria and other African startups are off to a bright start as funding into the ecosystem rose by 240 percent year-on-year to $289 million in January 2025, compared to the corresponding period of…
- 14 Feb 2023
Treepz Launches Treepz Kenya as it Continues African Expansion Plan
The award-winning African Mobility Startup, Treepz has announced the successful launch of Treepz Kenya following strategic investment deals to raise additional $1.2m over the last 12 months. Treepz…
- 20 Oct 2013
Microsoft Ventures Supports Entrepreneurship in Africa
Microsoft Corp. has announced the expansion of the Microsoft Ventures partnership program into Africa. Microsoft Ventures was introduced in June as a coordinated global effort to offer tools,…