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Five female-focused accelerator programs for African founders

Five female-focused accelerator programs for African founders

Some female-focused accelerator programs for African founders include GreenHouse Lab, SHEBA, I’M IN Accelerator, Grindstone X Programme and The Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) program.

Jack Dorsey is back in Africa, this time for Crypto

Jack Dorsey is back in Africa, this time for Crypto

How a microbiology graduate broke into tech through an internship

How a microbiology graduate broke into tech through an internship

Who won the 2022 MEST Africa challenge?

Who won the 2022 MEST Africa challenge?

Chipper Cash's valuation dropped by 37.5%—from $2B to $1.25B

Chipper Cash's valuation dropped by 37.5%—from $2B to $1.25B

CBN sets cash withdrawal limits to boost its cashless policy

CBN sets cash withdrawal limits to boost its cashless policy

Why Kenya is reintroducing MOMO and bank transactions charges

Why Kenya is reintroducing MOMO and bank transactions charges

News

Who won the 2022 MEST Africa challenge?

Who won the 2022 MEST Africa challenge?

MEST Africa has announced Senegalese tech startup Kwely as the winner of the 2022 edition of the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC); a pan-African tech startup pitch competition.

Chipper Cash's valuation dropped by 37.5%—from $2B to $1.25B

Chipper Cash's valuation dropped by 37.5%—from $2B to $1.25B

CBN sets cash withdrawal limits to boost its cashless policy

CBN sets cash withdrawal limits to boost its cashless policy

Why Kenya is reintroducing MOMO and bank transactions charges

Why Kenya is reintroducing MOMO and bank transactions charges

Aruwa Capital wants to invest over $20M in African women-led businesses

Aruwa Capital wants to invest over $20M in African women-led businesses

VENCO secures $670k pre-seed to enable proptech in Africa

VENCO secures $670k pre-seed to enable proptech in Africa

Nigeria wants to tax crypto transactions

Nigeria wants to tax crypto transactions

Opinion

Five female-focused accelerator programs for African founders

Five female-focused accelerator programs for African founders

Some female-focused accelerator programs for African founders include GreenHouse Lab, SHEBA, I’M IN Accelerator, Grindstone X Programme and The Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) program.

Jack Dorsey is back in Africa, this time for Crypto

Jack Dorsey is back in Africa, this time for Crypto

Inside the hell that Lagos tech bros go through to rent a house

Inside the hell that Lagos tech bros go through to rent a house

What ChatGPT said about the top fintech startups in Nigeria

What ChatGPT said about the top fintech startups in Nigeria

How to register a foreign business in Rwanda

How to register a foreign business in Rwanda

12 best Christmas tech gifts ideas 2022

12 best Christmas tech gifts ideas 2022

How Zone's (formerly Appzone) plan to power global payments with blockchain

How Zone's (formerly Appzone) plan to power global payments with blockchain

Spotlight

How a microbiology graduate broke into tech through an internship

How a microbiology graduate broke into tech through an internship

The fascinating story of how Fiyinfoluwa Akinsiku, a microbiology graduate, transitioned into tech through an internship.

Meet the Africans in YouTube Black Voices Fund music class of 2023

Meet the Africans in YouTube Black Voices Fund music class of 2023

Meet the AWS Academy member institutions in Nigeria

Meet the AWS Academy member institutions in Nigeria

Nigerian startups dominate Techstars Toronto 2022 Winter cohort

Nigerian startups dominate Techstars Toronto 2022 Winter cohort

Meet the 7 Nigerian startups exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

Meet the 7 Nigerian startups exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

Inside Afropolitan's plan to build an internet country for Africans

Inside Afropolitan's plan to build an internet country for Africans

Six Nigerian tech entrepreneurs to receive the highest national awards

Six Nigerian tech entrepreneurs to receive the highest national awards

Events

Who won the Seerbit future of payment hackathon?

Excousia won the 2022 Seerbit Future of Payment hackathon. Neon and Luka Finance were first and second runners up respectively.

What happened at GetEquity Startup Festival 2022?

What happened at GetEquity Startup Festival 2022?

At #LDS2022, experts examined the effective use of technology in scaling businesses

At #LDS2022, experts examined the effective use of technology in scaling businesses

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November tech and startup events: London is the new Lagos

What happened at the Seerbit Future of Payment Hackathon

Ingressive for Good to host African techies at I4G HACKFEST 2022

Ingressive for Good to host African techies at I4G HACKFEST 2022

#LDS2022 will focus on scaling Nigerian businesses with digital technology

#LDS2022 will focus on scaling Nigerian businesses with digital technology

Travel

How to obtain Norway’s digital nomad visa

How to obtain Norway’s digital nomad visa

This article is a step-by-step guide on how to apply for the Norwegian digital nomad visa.

Eight global digital nomad visas Africans can explore

Eight global digital nomad visas Africans can explore

How to obtain the Namibian Digital Nomad Visa

How to obtain the Namibian Digital Nomad Visa

Seven things to do before relocating to Canada

Seven things to do before relocating to Canada

How African startups can deal with the current Japa wave

How African startups can deal with the current Japa wave

Eight best African Cities for Digital Nomads

Eight best African Cities for Digital Nomads

What you need to know about the UK’s Global Talent Visa

What you need to know about the UK’s Global Talent Visa

Under The Hoodie

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Under The Hoodie —Victor Ekwealor, Head of Growth at Spektra Inc

Under The Hoodie - Olabinjo Adeniran, Growth Partner at Future Africa

Under The Hoodie —Adekagun Damilola, Technical Product Manager at TeamApt

Under The Hoodie—Runo Saduwa, software engineer at Devi Health

Under The Hoodie - Oludumila Damilola, User Researcher at Webflow

Zero To Scale

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Zero to Scale: Abdoul Kadry Diallo — Co-founder & CMO at ANKA

Zero To Scale: Damilola Soyombo — Founder/CEO of Skooqs and TCKZone

Zero To Scale: Damilola Fasawe-Aderinto — Operations Partner and Co-founder of Future Africa

Zero To Scale: Kenneth Obiajulu — Co-founder and CEO of Agricorp International

Zero To Scale: Ayodeji Balogun—CTO and Co-founder of Terragon Group

Brand Press

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Who won the Seerbit future of payment hackathon?

How to apply for the ALP NG & Co-Innovation Prize Challenge 1.0

What happened at the Seerbit Future of Payment Hackathon

Bloc partners with SMEDAN to provide fintech products and services to SMEs in Nigeria

Seerbit and Consonance to host the Future of Payment Hackathon with over $30K in prizes and seed funding