18 results
- 14 Jun 2019
MEST Africa Hosts Fourth Annual Pan-African Tech Summit
Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator MEST Africa, has concluded its fourth successful MEST Africa Summit, in partnership with Microsoft. The event saw entrepreneurs,…
- 22 Jun 2018
MEST Marks 10 Years of Supporting African Entrepreneurs
Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator MEST, has closed its third successful MEST Africa Summit, which saw leading entrepreneurs, investors and corporate executives…
- 21 Nov 2018
MainOne Partners Mest for High Speed Internet to MEST Incubator
MainOne, West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre services provider, has partnered with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) to provide high-speed internet access to…
- 22 Mar 2019
OneFi Acquires Amplify, Fuels Effort to Shape Nigeria’s Fintech
Amplified Payments Ltd , a fintech company that builds and facilitates payment solutions and digital financial transactions in Nigeria, has today announced its acquisition by One Finance Limited .…
- 9 Nov 2018
MainOne Powers Up MEST Incubator with High-speed Internet
West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre services provider, MainOne, has partnered with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) to provide high-speed internet access to…
- 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…
- 23 Apr 2015
MEST, Samsung Partner to Enhance TII Opportunities in W/Africa
The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and Samsung Electronics have partnered in an initiative that will aim to provide more opportunities, resources and tools to West African…
- 16 Feb 2019
Opeke Charges Nigerians to Adopt New Technologies to Grow the Economy
Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MainOne, has underlined the need for businesses in Nigeria to adopt new technologies to avoid falling behind the rest of the world in technological…
- 18 Jun 2014
Interswitch Partners MEST to Support IT Entrepreneurs
Interswitch, a leading pan-African integrated payment processing and transaction switching company, has partnered with Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) to develop and extend the…
- 3 Mar 2017
What Facebook's Chief Product Officer Told ‘MEST’ Tech Community Ghana
Chris Cox, chief product officer at Facebook, visited the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana during the week to meet with Ghanaian entrepreneurs and see how they…
- 26 Sept 2015
Jack, NITDA DG @DemoAfrica2015 Lauds Techpreneurs
Peter Jack, director-general, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) said that Agency is delighted by the resilience of African technology entrepreneurs (techpreneurs) to support…
- 24 Mar 2025
FG, UK FCDO, and Ghana Partner to Launch Sankore
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science & Technology (FMIST) and Ghana’s Ministry of Environment, Science & Technology…
- 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…
- 1 Sept 2015
Microsoft Promotes Africa’s Innovators through DEMO Africa 2015
Microsoft, under the 4Afrika Initiative, has confirmed its support for the upcoming DEMO Africa event in Lagos, Nigeria. This is the fourth time that the software giant has pledged support to the…
- 14 Aug 2015
Ampion Venture Bus West Africa Winner to Pitch at DEMO Africa 2015
The winner of Ampion West African Venture bus challenge would pitch at the DEMO Africa 2015 edition, having previously partnered with DEMO Africa in 2014. The Ampion bus will move across West Africa…
- 18 Aug 2015
Africa's Richest Man, Dangote Addresses Global Audience at Demo Africa 2015
Africa’s richest man and chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote will address the global audience at the DEMO Africa 2015 edition at Eko Hotel & Suites on 24 and 25 September 2015, Yele…
- 2 Apr 2014
Top 10 Female Tech Founders To Watch In Africa
In Africa’s burgeoning, male-dominated tech scene, women remain largely underrepresented. Yet there is a tiny handful of incredible women who are launching and building successful, innovative tech…
- 8 Mar 2017
Nigeria, West Africa’s Innovation, Creative Hub- Facebook CPO
Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook, will be taking feedback and inspiration from the developer and content creator communities back to California following his visits to Nigeria, Ghana and…