Startups, Page 33
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Wed, November 20th, 08:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Radio vital for Ethiopian communication – MirtMirt.com
Radio is the most important form of communication in Ethiopia given its prevalence in households across the country, according to Ethiopian animation media forum MirtMirt.com. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 18:00 · Tom Jackson
Senegalese accelerator secures $150k for startups this year
CTIC Dakar, a Senegalese incubator and accelerator, has secured US$150,000 in investments for its startups so far this year, while one of its incubatees has received Series A funding round from an international venture capital firm. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 10:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Q&A: Ghanaian banking startup DreamOval
Ghana’s DreamOval is taking great strides within the country’s banking sector with its revolutionary software. Derrydean Dadzie, chief doer at DreamOval, spoke to HumanIPO about their experience so far. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 08:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Startup hindered in launching Tanzanian e-ticketing
Institutional barriers, as well as the shift from manual to digital processes, are hindering the launch of an e-ticketing system for buses in Tanzania, according to local startup Zoop. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 19:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Q&A: Tanzanian startup Karibu Solar Power
Karibu Solar Power is a Tanzanian startup making high quality solar power affordable by producing a modular solar lamp for lighting and charging mobile phones. The startup has just won the United Nations SEED Award, and HumanIPO caught up with Adam Camenzuli, executive director, to talk about the company → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 18:00 · Paul Adepoju
Prowork focused on expanding to other African countries
Prowork, one of two Nigerian startups that participated in the 2013 VentureOut Challenge, has expressed its readiness to expand to other African countries with its task management platform. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 15:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Nailab’s hackathon set for Kisumu
The Kenyan lakeside town of Kisumu will host the Nailab’s next hackathon, geared towards bringing together tech and business developers to produce ideas that could help tackle the town’s perennial problems of unemployment, insecurity and health. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 15:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Ethiopian startup launches product listings website
Ethiopian product listings website Dibsr.com is set to launch in beta at the end of the month, removing the need for consumers to travel between numerous shops and facilitating the shopping experience. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 13:00 · Kamau Mbote
RateAfrika to go live across Africa in New Year
Pan-African startup RateAfrika is set to launch a platform for customers to rate businesses and services on the continent as well as an advertising platform for businesses. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 11:00 · Tom Jackson
App allows children to save via mobile
South African company Soulstice has developed a mobile application which allows parents to deposit their child’s allowance into a ‘Fliptin’ account, allowing children to transact, save and learn through their mobiles. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 10:30 · Richard Cutcher
FEATURE: The week in startups 18/11/2013
Two Kenyan startups received cash injections during the past week, providing a significant boost to the startup ecosystem in the East African country. → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 15:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Kopo Kopo gets $2.6m in funding
Kenyan merchant services platform Kopo Kopo has secured US$2.6 million in financing, enabling it to expand its service offering and branch out across Africa. → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 14:00 · Brandon Gregory
MEDO opens DTI’s first youth entrepreneur incubator
The Micro Enterprise Development Organisation (MEDO) has launched the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI’s) first youth entrepreneur incubator as part of the it’s Incubator Support Programme (ISP). → Read more
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Thu, November 14th, 19:00 · Nick Sato
Developers can now build cognitive apps through IBM Watson Technology
IBM will make its Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud, enabling a worldwide community of software application providers to build a new generation of apps infused with cognitive computing intelligence. → Read more
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Thu, November 14th, 15:53 · Kamau Mbote
Snapchat rejected $3b Facebook offer
Image messaging service Snapchat has reportedly rejected $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook. → Read more
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Thu, November 14th, 14:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Entrepreneurs must sell solutions, fix problems – RLabs
Entrepreneurs must seek to ensure their product sells a solution to a problem, in order to achieve success in business, according to Craig Ross, innovations manager at the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs). → Read more
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Wed, November 13th, 17:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
African infrastructure needs attention to attract startup investment
Infrastructure improvement and capacity building is necessary in order to encourage foreign investment into startups and entrepreneurs in Africa, according to panelists speaking at the Entrepreneurs Incubator Hub at AfricaCom 2013. → Read more
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Wed, November 13th, 13:00 · Kamau Mbote
Q&A: DUMA Works react to Rockefeller Foundation grant
Kenyan job recruiting platform DUMA Works has won a Rockefeller Foundation grant, bagging US$100,000. HumanIPO spoke to co-founder Arielle Sandor on what plans the Nairobi startup had with the money. → Read more
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Wed, November 13th, 09:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Kenyan company launches online assessment for career discovery
Discover Your Career (DYC) has launched an online assessment platform that seeks to bridge the gap for people seeking to find the job they are best suited for. → Read more
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Tue, November 12th, 16:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Senegalese startup wins the VentureOut Challenge for Africa
Marodi.tv, an online video platform broadcasting African content, has won the Africa category at this year’s VentureOut Challenge, walking away with US$10,000 USD and six months worth of mentorship. → Read more
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