AfricArena have secured over $222m in funding over the course of five years...
This year, Bizcommunity, in partnership with Seedstars, is acknowledging African startups on World Entrepreneurs' Day 2020...
Evan-Lee Courie 21 Aug 2020
AfricArena has launched a report on the State of Tech Innovation and Investment in Africa...
Most investment proposals sent to VC don't even break through to the decision-making stage...
Sean Sanders 13 Sep 2019
Professor Nhlanhla Cyril Mbatha, a professor at the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership, discusses the findings and flaws of the Presidential Advisory Panel's report on South Africa's land reform and agriculture...
Professor Nhlanhla Cyril Mbatha 15 Aug 2019
It was another busy year of activity in the African tech startup space, with some major global players becoming heavily involved in various ecosystems...
Tom Jackson 28 Dec 2017
The robots of the future will be coming soon, rolling along at a lumbering pace with those goods you just ordered. The six-wheeled, knee-high robots from startup Starship Technologies are part of a new wave of automated systems...
Venture capital flows to startups globally cooled further in the first quarter of 2016, in a fresh sign of caution over the so-called tech 'unicorns', a survey showed...
ASPEN - Jet.com, a well-funded US startup which aims to shake up online retailing with new ways to cut prices, is set for launch next week, its chief executive said...
The 'Creating and Leveraging Intellectual Property in Developing Countries (ClipDC) conference, held from 17-20 November 2013 at the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel in Durban, has revealed some new ideas on funding. Government officials, policy experts, academics and entrepreneurs from South Africa and Africa and developing and developed countries attended the conference.
South Africa's young yet lively venture capital ecosystem is building momentum, with the increased availability of funding mechanisms for innovation being one important driver of this growth.
Erika van der Merwe 27 Sep 2013
South Africa's young yet lively venture capital ecosystem is building momentum, with the increased availability of funding mechanisms for innovation being one important driver of this growth.
Erika van der Merwe 19 Sep 2013
There has been an increase in interest and activity in web and mobile applications over the past year. In October/November 2012, there are three important conferences focused on this developing arena, including Demo Africa, Tech4Africa and Mobile Web Africa.
Mongezi Mtati 30 Oct 2012
NEW YORK, US / SINGAPORE / LONDON, UK / SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL: The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced that (Mojiva Inc), parent company to Mojiva, the leading mobile ad network, and Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving standard, has joined the MMA as a Global Premium Member.