Spotlight Why African healthtech startup, 54gene's seed raise is important to the rest of the world In less than six months, 54gene secured an early-stage funding of $4.5 million which signals the potential for massive impact and profitability
Press release Venture Capital firm, Oui Capital partners American IT multinational, IBM to support startups in its portfolio Via the Startup with IBM program, Oui Capital portfolio companies can no get access to $120,000 worth of IBM Cloud credits and over 130 IBM services.
Events A comprehensive recap of the 4th MEST Africa Summit Here is everything that happened last week in Nairobi, Kenya at MEST Africa Summit 2019, held in partnership with Microsoft.
News Ghanaian startup, Truckrtech emerges winner of TechCircle’s 2019 Pitch2Win competition A Ghanaian startup, Truckr(tech) emerged the winner of the just concluded "Pitch2Win" competition that held in Lagos-Nigeria.
News 10 Nigerian startups to compete at 'Pitch2Win', organised by TechCircle and Japan's Freakout holdings Organised in partnership with Japan's Freakout holding, TechCircle has invited the top 5% of Nigerian startups that applied to Pitch2Win ₦1 million on June 12. Read on to find out who the selected startups are.
Spotlight Early-stage Maritime startup, MVXchange set to build the future of Offshore Support Vessels chartering in Africa Nigerian Maritime startup, MVXchange is on a mission to build the future of Offshore Support Vessels (OSV) chartering in Africa, announces pre-seed round close.
Spotlight How Micdee designed Softcom’s new campus, Eko Novo In 2017, 12-year-old Nigerian tech company—Softcom consulted innovative architecture and design firm, Micdee Designs to build its new 1768-square-metre tech campus. Here is how Micdee did it.
News Mid to senior level developers can now officially get into Andela without having to go through the fellowship Andela's evolution is interesting and in this 1,500-word essay we look to plot the companies trajectory with raw numbers, as we announce their new "Power of 'X'" campaign to recruit mid to senior developers
News Meet SafeBoda—the ride-hailing startup that just closed a Series B round co-led by GOJEK and Allianz X SafeBoda was founded by a Ugandan and two Europeans in 2014. They recently closed a Series B funding round co-led by GOJEK's Go-Ventures and Allianz X.
News Ex-Andelan, Babajide Duroshola joins SafeBoda as Country Head, Nigeria Ex-Andelan, Babajide Duroshola has told benjamindada.com that he is joining ride-hailing startup, SafeBoda as their Country Head in Nigeria.
Spotlight The growing developer marketplace in Nigeria; how is Yasé.io different? Dividends of the ongoing “everyone should learn to code” conversation is already evident, as Nigeria continues to export software development expertise.For instance, in September 2018, a former technical team lead at Andela,
Fintech PiggyVest needs their investment product—Investify—more than you, a subscriber Sequel to its recent name change, online savings and investment platform—PiggyVest—has announced its investment feature—Investify. Investify is PiggyVest's way of helping her near 250,000 subscribers grow their wealth. Founded
Spotlight STEMCafe in partnership with ENYO Retail and Supply launches its first location in Nigeria STEMCafe, a kids creativity play space launched its first location in partnership with ENYO Retail and Supply in Lekki, Lagos—Nigeria.CcHUB founder and CEO, Bosun Tijani is also the visioner and founder
Opinion 7 ways to protect yourself from ransomware attacks on your Spectranet and Smile mobile hotspots Here is how it applies to you and how you can limit the risk of a future occurrence while protecting your home/ or office mobile hotspots.
CcHUB African startups selected for PitchDrive II will journey through Asia's hardware hubs PitchDrive II, the second edition of an initiative of CcHub run in partnership with Google for Startups is set to expose selected hardware startups from Africa to the Asian manufacturing market.Two years
Events Microsoft partners MEST to host the fourth annual pan-African tech Summit MEST Africa has officially announced its fourth annual MEST Africa Summit, in collaboration with Microsoft.Launched in Ghana by Jorn Lyseggen, MEST is an 11-year-old pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund and incubator
CcHUB CcHub goes live with Design fellowship in Africa CcHub design fellowship is now open for application!
Startup Grind Lagos Entertainment entrepreneur, Chigul to speak at Startup Grind Lagos' next event "She has a compelling story filled with failures and handling pressure...entrepreneurs face similar pressures because we 'cannot' afford to fail", says Uwem
Spotlight Africa's leading mobile phone maker, Transsion Holdings has filed to go public on China's new technology board An essay about Transsion's "urgent need for capital" to fuel expansion and China's struggle to create a thriving NASDAQ-style tech board.
Startup Grind Lagos Four pillars on how to grow your brand influence as told by Tosin "Olorisupergal" Ajibade Startup Grind Lagos marched into March with the founder of Olorisupergal, Tosin Ajibade, a thought leader in influencer marketing and the Author of From Social Misfit to Social Media Hero. The event held
News Five Nigerian startups that made it to Y Combinator's (YC) winter batch 2019 Before we go ahead to list the startups, shall we briefly examine the impact of YC on Nigerian startups? Is it worth the multiple attempts?
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.
