Akinwumi Adesina
Africa Banking Leadership

Akinwumi Adesina Re-elected As AfDB President

Akinwumi Adesina has been re-elected to serve a second five-year term as President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

AWIEF
Entrepreneurship SMEs Women

U.S. Embassy, AWIEF Forum Announce Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Program

The Embassy of the United States of America in South Africa has partnered with the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Yellow Card
Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Funding Investment Venture Capital

Nigerian Crypto Firm, Yellow Card Raises $1.5M to Support Expansion Across Africa

Expands to Kenyan and Cameroon Yellow Card, a Nigeria-based crypto exchange, has secured $1.5 million investments from venture capital firm

Safaricom
Entrepreneurship Startup Telecom

Apply: Safaricom Spark Fund to Support Kenyan Tech Startups

Safaricom Spark Fund is inviting early growth stage and late seed Kenyan tech startups to apply for investment and funding.

SIP
Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship Startup

Apply: Social Innovators Programme (SIP) 2020/21 Fellowship

LEAP Africa in partnership with Union Bank has announced the call for applications for the 2020/ 2021 cohort of the Social Innovators Programme

MFS Africa
Money Transfer Partnership Payment

MFS Africa and MoneyGram Partner to Ease Cross-border P2P Payments in Africa

MFS Africa, the pan-African cross-border payments firm, has announced a partnership with MoneyGram. The partnership will enable MoneyGram to leverage MFS

Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
AgricTech Entrepreneurship Startup

Nigeria’s Farmz2U, 3 Other African Startups Selected For Finals of Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Farmz2U, a Nigerian agritech startup has been selected for the finals of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation which will

Jeff Bezos
Business Ecommerce News

Jeff Bezos Becomes First-man Ever to Worth $200Bn

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon has become the first person to top $200 billion in net worth on Wednesday, according

Enygma Ventures
Funding Investment Job

Enygma Ventures invests $253k from its Shift Fund into Job Crystal

Enygma Ventures has announced that it has made $253,687 (R 4.2million) investment into Job Crystal, South Africa’s Premier Recruitment Company.

Impact Hub
Entrepreneurship Startup

Startups in Ghana and Nigeria Invited to Apply For Impact Hub New Economy Booster Program

The New Economy Booster powered by Impact Hub is designed to support impact-driven entrepreneurs with both advanced and early-stage ventures, startups, non-profit organizations, or