News Farmcrowdy raises additional seed funding of $1 million, announces Farmcrowdy Group Agritech startup, Farmcrowdy has closed an additional seed funding of $1 million with eyes set on Series A later this year.
News Nigeria-born Developer Advocate, Codebeast joins Microsoft as part of the company's play in Africa On Monday, Christian "Codebeast" Nwamba announced his move to Microsoft as a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate.
News Berlin-based Investor, Plutos Ventures to fund Africa-focused NGO, Ampion via the launch of a joint venture, Ampion Ventures Here is why Berlin-based investor, Plutos Ventures and Africa-focused NGO, Ampion are launching Ampion Ventures to focus on just three key industries.
News EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria's AgriTech startup, Thrive Agric makes YC 2019 Winter batch Nigerian agritech startup, Thrive Agric makes YCombinator's 2019 Winter batch. In February alone, they gave farmers loan worth over ₦180 million.
News "Nigeria represents both the present and the future of the internet", says Tim Berners-Lee on Lagos visit To mark the 30th anniversary of the internet, founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to Lagos to see the growing tech ecosystem, hosted by African VC, TLcom. He also met with women in tech.
News Gloo.ng completes pivot from e-commerce to e-procurement, Gloopro On March 11, 2019, The management of PayMente Limited announced the pivot of their e-commerce brand, Gloo to a B2B e-procurement startup, Gloopro.
Opinion How to join the Kenyan Startup ecosystem as an Angel investor In 3 steps, former CNN Africa Startup Producer, Ibrahim Ahmed, based in Kenya shares best practices on becoming an Angel investor in the country.
Tech Five African initiatives that support women in Tech #IWD2019 Are you a woman? Are you in the tech industry? Or are you an aspirant? These are five women-focused tech communities that you probably didn't know about:
News Jack Ma's Foundation appoints Nigeria's Network of Innovators and Incubators as regional partner for the $10 million Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has appointed the Network of Incubators and Innovators in Nigeria (NINE) as its West Africa regional partner.
Events Startup Grind Lagos to host media entrepreneur, Tosin "Olorisupergal" Ajibade Startup Grind Lagos will be hosting "social media hero," Tosin Ajibade (AKA Olorisupergal) on Saturday, March 16 at The Nest Innovation Technology Park in Yaba, Lagos. The event is themed: Becoming an influencer in your industry.
Events Facebook and CcHUB unveil Innovation Showcase Week 2019 #ISW2019 by NG_Hub unveils 21 FBStartAccelerator startups that will be demoing this year. Startups include VetsArk, Doctoora, Findworka and Lara.ng.
Spotlight How forloop is inspiring a new generation of African developers, one country at a time "We needed a vibrant community of developers that can help each and every one of us achieve our goals faster”, says Prosper.
Spotlight Meet the young Nigerians visualising Nigeria's Election data—Stears Stears Election centre reveals that with the current INEC-announced results, APC and PDP account for 97% of the Presidential votes with APC in the lead.
Twitter Medium CEO, Ev Williams resigns from Twitter's Board Ev Williams, a Twitter co-founder who left the company in 2011 but remained on its Board has announced resignation from the Board to focus on other things. Medium?
News Application for Silicon Valley Internship Programme closes on February 24 Application for the Silicon Valley Internship Programme (SVIP) is set to close on Sunday, February 24, 2019. The second track of the SVIP, in partnership with GBx-x, accepts female engineers with a STEM degree from outside of Europe.
Spotlight NightsBridge MD confirms that the HotelOga sale didn't happen We were approached by Marek in April 2017 an asset sale was set in motion. But due diligence revealed that even the investors didn't approve the asset sale, says Managing Director NightsBridge.
Spotlight HotelOnline management clears the air about Marek's involvement with the company Business partner, Havar talks extensively with Benjamin Dada about the Savanna <> HotelOnline (Polish entity) merger, where Marek was a shareholder.
News Winning regional finals, does Publiseer stand a chance at the Startup World Cup Final? Publiseer, a free digital publishing platform founded by the (identical) twins–Chidi and Chika Nwaogwu, will be representing Nigeria at the Grand Finale of the 2019 SWC on May 17 in San Francisco, United States. They will be competing for the $1 million (investment) grand prize.
News Nigeria's CcHUB expands to East Africa, launching Design Lab in Kigali, Rwanda Co-creation Hub plans to invest up to $11 million in Rwanda, to go along with their expansion into the country.
Opinion Why we need more Product Management meetups—🔍 of Product School Lagos meetup Though nascent, Product Managers across the world are about the highest-paid tech employees. Africa's youth can reap huge dividends from this Product Management rave, if only they knew more about it.
Ingressive Ingressive Capital: Startups, get your 'first cheque' in less than 30 days Ingressive Capital is looking to invest between $50,000 and $100,000 or not in early stage African companies within less than 30 days of application.
News Telecom regulator—NCC—temporarily lifts "Do Not Disturb" restriction ahead of elections NCC has partnered with INEC through the telcos to deliver voters' education over existing mobile network of 172 million subscribers.
Events Startup World Cup Nigeria regional 2019 Meet the 10 startups selected to pitch at Startup World Cup Nigeria regional 2019.
Events The second Atlassian User Group Lagos Meetup to hold in two weeks On Saturday, February 9, 2019, over 50 people will gather at the Eyowo Studio for the second edition of AUG Lagos meetup.
Spotlight E-commerce in Nigeria; case-in-point, Gloo.ng pivot We spoke with the CEO of PayMente Limited (owners of Gloo.ng), Olumide "D.O" Olusanya about e-commerce in Nigeria, and why Gloo was pivoting.
