Have you ever watched Usain Bolt’s 200 meter race in the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Go watch it now. It’s incredible — while everyone else is busy competing, Bolt is out in front, completely dominating the competition. I’ll be the first to admit it, I want that level of success for myself. And in order to …
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In 2014, my world flipped upside down. One month after moving from San Francisco to New York, my partner Kayla and I found out we were expecting our first child. Like so many first-time parents, I felt unprepared. I felt that my life had just stepped on a perpetual treadmill and ratcheted up the speed and incline by …
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The inaugural cohort of the FAST startup accelerator, created by Microsoft in collaboration with Flapmax to build and scale Africa’s digital ecosystem, has been selected. The 12-week FAST program, which starts next week, brings together entrepreneurs from six nations and nine industries, which were chosen from over 800 submissions from 25 countries. Applicants for the …
With the help of venture capitalists, Microsoft intends to provide $500 million in potential funding to African startups in order to help them grow quickly. Over the next five years, the Africa Transformation Office will launch a series of new initiatives aimed at helping 10,000 African companies achieve their full potential. With the opening of …
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The Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC) has announced the launch of Africa’s first and only Fintech Fund, worth $50 million. The fund, which is backed by MyGrowthFund Venture Partners, will focus on fintech startups operating in Africa that have proven technology. With the fund established in KIFC, African investments in the fintech sector will be …
Africa is being recognized around the world for its rapid innovation. Eight African startups have been selected for the Techstars Toronto Accelerator’s October 2021 cohort. The Techstars accelerator is held in batches, each lasting three months. In April of this year, the successful applicants for the first batch of 2021 were notified. Two Nigerian startups …
Payday, a Pan-African Fintech startup, founded by Nigerian entrepreneur, Favour Ori has become the first Rwandan company to join the prestigious Techstars Toronto Accelerator program. Techstars is an operational investment company that assists founders and early-stage entrepreneurs scale their vision into a thriving business, beginning with the Demo Day at the end of the program …
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Kenya is seemingly perhaps the best nation to roll a startup. It is the place where a hatchery preparing M:LAB was conceived, catalyzing the development of pitching contests for new companies, incubators hub, and welcoming effect financial backers and private supporters into the scene. The Country’s capital, Nairobi set second after Lagos in a positioning …
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US-based tech monolith Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, has announced its plans to invest $1-billion over 5 years to accelerate and support digital transformation across Africa through a series of new initiatives, from faster internet to backing startups. The announcements were first made during yesterday’s first-ever Google for Africa virtual event, which can be …
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The Ghana Driver & Road Safety (GDRS) Foundation this week unveiled a digital road safety platform, Drifan, aimed to help reduce the menace of road accidents on Ghana’s roads. Drifan is a social media-like platform with which road users can capture and share live alerts of road hazards anywhere in the country. Users can share …
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