The Silicon Savannah: Of Vanity Capital and Vanity Companies

This article was originally written by Jonathan Kalan for ImpactIQ.

NAIROBI – Here at ground zero for the new era of African innovation, investors are learning what an impact investing “bubble” looks like. Too much money, too few investment-ready … Read More

Pivot25 Finalist, IPO48 Winner Wins Regional "Startup World" Competition in Nairobi

Startup World is a global competition with an aim to find the next great startup outside Silicon Valley. The competition is being held in 36 cities world-wide including the recently concluded Cape Town and Nairobi with Kigali and Dar es Salaam coming up.

Up … Read More

Exclusive: Infographic on Pivot East 2012 – Statistics, Quotes & Highlights

We brought some coverage the past few weeks on Afrinnovator of East Africa’s mobile apps developer conference Pivot East. From the pre-event infographic on “What startups want from Pivot East in 2012” and the Live Blog of Day 1 and … Read More

Live Blog: Mobile Web East Africa Day 1 & 2

Afrinnovator’s in the house at Mobile Web East Africa 2012 in Nairobi Kenya, tune in below to get a sense of our favourite quotes, tweets and highlights from the conference. We’ve also got a Storify going. Updates by @BrendaWambui and … Read More

Pivot East – Regional Mobile Apps. Developer Conference to be Held in June 2012

The second edition of East Africa’s regional mobile apps. developer competition and conference will be held on June 5th and 6th in Nairobi. The progression of events dubbed Pivot East will begin in January 2012 with a call for entries … Read More

Analysis of Google Africa & Wananchi Group's Wazi WiFi: "Pay-per-Device" Freemium Wireless Internet In Nairobi

Google Africa, based out of Nairobi, Kenya along with the Wananchi Group have began a pilot of what could be compared to something akin to Google’s free wifi in Mountain View, California?

Questions of net neutrality aside, it … Read More

3 things foreign tech startups setting up in Africa should consider

As we’ve reported before, Africa seems to have massive potential for the future of tech innovation globally, in fact this is really the reason we even bother to keep this site running! The continent continues to attract a large influx … Read More

Breaking: Safaricom Introduces 2 Ksh. Per Minute Internet Browsing Tariff

Kenyan integrated telecoms firm Safaricom launches the market’s first data-focused tariff targeted at maintaining their lead in the market. Afrinovator’s Mark Kaigwa look at the statistics of Safaricom’s performance in the data market and where the new tariff fits in.Read More

Sandbox Launches In Africa

Sandbox is proud to announce the opening of its first hub in Africa. Based out of Nairobi, its aim is to unite the continent’s most inspiring young leaders, and to connect them with like-minded peers all over the globe.

“We … Read More

Africa Gathering 2010, Nairobi

No one knows African problems like an African. We think that the lives of many ordinary Africans can be improved using the benefits of technology, using African solutions to African problems – sometimes with a helping hand from others. We … Read More