The African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (AGF) has received a capital increase amounting to EUR 25 million from the KfW Development...
Category - Startups
What started as a hobby for Onesmus Gitonga has turned into an agribusiness a year later. In June last year, his father bought two turkeys, a tom and a hen...
Kenyan fintech startup Pezesha is running financial education sessions in the town of Embu in a bid to cut down on the high default rates amongst borrowers...
Innocent Mukheli graced the stage of the Africa Travel Summit hosted by Airbnb with mouthwatering images that would make anyone stop for a double take. “Our...
Financial literacy remains a barrier for young people, with millennials struggling to meet their financial goals and not saving effectively. South African...
The Overlings from Mangosuthu University of Technology are the 2018 winners of Cognity Advisory’s Universities Business Challenge (UBC), sponsored by General...
Twelve non-profits and social enterprises from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, were each awarded a share of $2m in grant funding from Google in the first...
Now in its ninth year, ENGEN Pitch & Polish is a national entrepreneurial workshop and competition programme that – so far – has helped over 11 000...
Cognity Advisory’s Universities Business Challenge (UBC), sponsored by General Electric (GE), launched in July this year, has seen 500 students from 13...
Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech has concluded a 13-week accelerator programme, with 10 African start-ups collectively raising EUR600 000 (R9 million) in funding...
