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Thu, January 19th, 12:40 · HumanIPO

Groups on HumanIPO: Better Way to Collaborate with Advisors

3-4 people debating something in an e-mail quickly becomes a total mess. On the other hand there are many things in a company you do not want to debate with the world. → Read more
Wed, January 11th, 13:15 · HumanIPO

Coworking Desk Swap Between Berlin & Nairobi

Imagine your usual work desk being re-located to another part of the world for a freely chosen period of time; meeting new amazing people, learning about the local market and exchanging ideas. For a number of Berlin and Nairobi based startups and freelancers it will soon become a reality. → Read more
Fri, January 6th, 10:20 · HumanIPO

Zikify – 5 Ugandans Bringing African Music Online

Believing that African musicians are not receiving the recognition they should, they're determined to change this by bringing African music to millions of mobile and computer users. Meet Zikify, music streaming & artist discovery platform, created by 5 passionate guys from Uganda. → Read more
Mon, January 2nd, 20:45 · HumanIPO

Coworking in Africa – Snowball on the Continent

Until now, the African continent has been considered as the “little brother”, when looking at the number of coworking spaces worldwide. → Read more
Tue, December 20th, 15:03 · HumanIPO

New on HumanIPO: Improved Profiles & More Visibility

Today we are glad to announce some changes on HumanIPO to improve startup profiles and make it easier to gain visibility. → Read more
Sun, December 18th, 15:37 · HumanIPO

Attention Designers: Experience the Sub-Saharan Tech Scene at First Hand!

Graphic designers, this is for you. Are you looking to change your work environment, meet amazing people and learn more about African emerging markets? Here’s a chance you would not want to miss out on! → Read more
Fri, December 9th, 11:47 · HumanIPO

Game change ahead in betting into start-ups

Interesting and possibly even table-turning news recently coming from USA regarding start-up crowdfunding. → Read more
Mon, November 28th, 11:53 · HumanIPO

HumanIPO opens East Africa’s largest co-working space in Nairobi

In the heart of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, the start-up scene is heating up even more, with the brand new startup incubation space of 800 sqm getting ready to officially open its doors in late January 2012. → Read more
Thu, November 24th, 16:05 · HumanIPO

Backup service for phone contacts – now in Beta!

After losing, spoiling or upgrading their mobile phone, here’s a mobile application that many of us would have liked to have. → Read more
Fri, November 18th, 12:03 · HumanIPO

Post to followers

You can follow people and post content to your followers. So post questions or share interesting content about new opportunities in the startup world that you think your followers should look at. → Read more
Thu, November 17th, 16:38 · HumanIPO

88mph makes its sixth investment in 3 months

88mph, an accelerator providing early-stage Kenyan tech companies with mentorship and funding in the range of 20-50K USD, has made its sixth investment since August, 2011. → Read more
Mon, October 31st, 10:06 · HumanIPO

M-Farm – one year of helping farmers in Kenya

It was exactly one year ago, when three Kenyan girls decided to create an app that would help their country's farmers to improve their productivity and increase incomes. → Read more
Tue, October 25th, 05:42 · HumanIPO

Planely – the startup that launched the social flying revolution

Flying tends to be an experience one mostly tolerates rather than enjoys - no matter what kind of clothes the flight attendants wear or how nice food they serve on board. Especially when flying solo (excuse the pun). → Read more
Fri, October 14th, 13:21 · HumanIPO

The difference between female & male entrepreneurs? Motives

From time to time, the topic about the lack of women entrepreneurs surfaces. The problem is also reinforced by the fact that most entrepreneurship-related books or conferences showcase men. So we took the issue to some of the female entrepreneurs on our platform to ask whether there is a gender problem in the (startup) world? → Read more
Wed, October 5th, 12:41 · HumanIPO

Making our bit for helping good deeds go viral

Our last post introduces a startup based in Denmark called Echo It that has a nice philosophy - experimenting whether social media can increase the good we have inside us. → Read more
Mon, October 3rd, 11:03 · HumanIPO

Social media experiment – will good deeds go viral?

In this era of social media dominance and everything to be out in the open comes a platform that helps you share and promote good deeds. → Read more
Mon, September 26th, 09:44 · HumanIPO

Geeks on a boat: a 2-year incubator at open waters near Silicon Valley

This is not a new reality show nor a remake of the “Love Boat”. It is a very real idea - called Blueseed - with three determined co-founders, Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija and Dan Dascalescu. → Read more
Mon, September 19th, 12:40 · HumanIPO

Startupbootcamp company BalconyTV is already in 21 cities

BalconyTV seems something that anyone of us would like to have created. I mean, it is a web-show that goes on air literally from someone's balcony. → Read more
Thu, September 15th, 12:33 · HumanIPO

Call for HumanIPO ambassadors!

We are looking for volunteer ambassadors, university students from Africa and Europe to write about local startups. → Read more
Wed, September 14th, 14:49 · HumanIPO

A startup confesses on Techstars NYC experience

Shelby.tv says it is their strong team what made them a part of the prestigious New York edition of the Techstars accelerator and mentoring program. Trendsonline.dk interviewed the founder, Reece Pacheco, on the experience with Techstars. → Read more