Frontier Digital Ventures to own 49% of Morocco’s car classifieds site moteur.ma
Share...Emerging markets classifieds operator Frontier Digital Ventures has announced it would increase its equity shareholding in Morocco’s auto marketplace, ‘moteur.ma’, to 49 percent in October, as...
View ArticleBest startups that facilitate bitcoins
Share...Bitcoin has been all over the headlines already for quite some years, however, the main reason for that was the speculation around the rate of this cryptocurrency. While there are many early...
View ArticleFormer CEO of MTN South Africa joins Kirusa’s Advisory Board on its Africa...
Share...Telecom visionary, Zunaid Bulbulia, one of the founding members of the MTN Group with over 22 years of experience in the telecommunications industry has joined Kirusa’s advisory board on its...
View ArticleInukapap wins the Kenya round of Seedstars World
Share... Inukapap won the Kenya round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland to compete for up to USD 1 million in equity investment. InukaPap, is a...
View ArticleCBA goes downtown Nairobi targeting the hugely untapped Kshs. 807 trillion...
The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) has launched a new branch on Kirinyaga Road, a popular location for car spare part dealers and traders in a move to target the hugely untapped SME market worth an...
View ArticleRwanda officially kicks off the Zipline drone delivery service of life-saving...
The government of Rwanda has officially launched Zipline , the world’s first national drone delivery service expected to make up to 150 on-demand, emergency deliveries per day of life-saving blood to...
View ArticleNest partners MTN Solution Space in Cape Town to Host a 2- Day Mobile Bootcamp
Nest and MTN Solution Space will provide founders and developers with a space, community, and platform to pitch and gain continued support to scale their startups globally. Startups to finish programme...
View ArticleMyBucks acquires stake in Opportunity International to set up banks in Africa
Luxembourg-based fintech firm MyBucks, which runs GetBucks in Kenya, Uganda and several other markets has acquired a significant stake in Opportunity International, to help it set up banking...
View ArticleCaribou Digital’s DFS Lab to grant $100k into fintech entrepreneurs in Africa
Caribou Digital is set to grant $100 into fintech startups in Africa after a 5 day bootcamp in Dar es Salam, Tanzania from Sunday, October 23, 2016 to Saturday, October 28, 2016. The one week bootcamp...
View ArticleSchoolApply.ng Wants to Help Nigerian Students to get International Admissions
In today’s globalised world, it is becoming increasingly important for students to gain an International experience. This helps boost their resume as well as increases networking abilities for students...
View ArticleKenya’s Pesa Zetu entangled in a bitter feud with former employees over...
Kenya’s Pesa Zetu, a peer-to-peer lending startup is reportedly entangled in a bitter feud with former employees over unpaid wages and expenses they incurred in the line of duty according to court...
View ArticleAfrimalin raises $437,000 in a record 3 days to be Francophone Africa’s...
General classifieds startup Afrimalin with a similar Craigslist model has successfully raised €400K in only 3 days just less than a month after its launch to connect buyers to sellers in Francophone...
View ArticleBrighter World Energy raises $610,000 to light up Africa
UK’s Brighter World Energy, just raised GBP500,000 seed capital round led by ClearlySo, a European impact investment bank to help tackle the continent’s power crisis as well for its customers in the...
View ArticleMyISP, a little known fiber to the office internet service provider is...
MyISP, a little known corporate internet service provider is expanding into the home internet market, joining giants like Seacom, Safaricom, Liquid Telecom, Jamii Telecom and Zuku. Founded in Kenya in...
View ArticleSafaricom could do more to woo loads of women into tech
Safaricom says it plans to recruit 62 interns by January 2017 as it progresses its agenda to woo more women to the technology field but we think it could do more than that. The giant telco which was...
View ArticlePoa! Internet, struggling Internet for Kibera slums gets Liquid Telecom boost
Launched in August last year after a series of trials and set up, poa! Internet has turned to Liquid Telecom Kenya to bolster its capacity and scale with the two unveiling a functional Internet model...
View ArticleEfritin to be run remotely after local operations were shut down
Efritin, a general classifieds site run by Saltside Technologies will be run remotely after the Nigeria office was shut and staff retrenched as TechMoran reported earlier. In an interview with Aim...
View ArticleSanivation to pitch for $1m Chivas Regal’s The Venture global competition
Sanivation, a Naivasha-based social enterprise has been selected as one of 30 startups from across the world to be a finalist of Chivas Regal’s The Venture competition; a global search to find and...
View ArticleGebeya to launch an on-demand platform for practical IT training for...
Gebeya, a subsidiary of Coders4Africa, a network of software developers in Africa, is set to launch an on-demand platform for practical IT training for individuals & businesses in Africa. On the...
View ArticleAccommodation reservation firm Booking.com pleased with its growth trajectory...
Booking.com, the global online accommodation reservation engine run by the Priceline Group is growing steadily in Africa with over 23,700 unique stays despite travel advisories and the continent’s...
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