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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
News Oui Capital, an Africa-focused venture capital firm is open for business! Olu Oyinsan alongside partners has launched a $10 million fund targeted at high-growth tech startups in Africa.
News Wakanow gets $40 million investment from Carlyle Group Wakanow—an online travel agency in Nigeria focused on West and East Africa—received funding of $40 million from The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG)—an american multinational investment firm.
News #StartupSouth debuts radio programme on entrepreneurship via Wish 99.5FM #StartupSouth set to launch radio programme focused on entrepreneurship education on Wish 99.5FM.
News Per Blockchain in Nigeria, Innovation comes before regulation as Interswitch announces Microsoft partnership Interswitch, Nigeria’s most prominent switching company and payment processor is on a mission to create solutions that enable individuals and communities prosper across Africa. In accordance with this mission, they recently launched
FirstBank Everything that happened at FirstBank's Fintech 2.0 Summit Everything that happened at the Firstbank Nigeria Limited Fintech 2.0 Summit held at Oriental Hotel on October 17, 2018.
Google Google for Startups, how can you benefit? Google, through her products, connections and best practices wants to help startups start, grow and scale.In a company blog post written by the Vice President, Google for startups – Lisa Gevelber, Google showed
Google Google is bringing SMS to the web Google is bringing texting to the web. It is making texting richer with more chat-like features like sending GIFs. This can potentially disrupt the IM market, a place where Facebook is King with many chat apps like Whatsapp and Messenger, as people find fewer uses for their chat apps.
