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Musings on the ‘Silicon Savannah’: Past, Present & Future – Afrinnovator
Kenya has come to be closely associated with technology innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the area of mobile technology, raising the country’s profile internationally as…
Scaling Internet-Based Startups in African Markets – Afrinnovator
We’ve all heard of the idea that entrepreneurs are people who see a ‘gap’ in the market and then create a product or service to…
Rethinking Startup Finance in Africa – Afrinnovator
I had a wonderful opportunity to have a discussion with Eric Osiakwan an African tech luminary from Ghana and director of Ghana’s Cyber City initiative about startup…
The Silicon Savannah: Of Vanity Capital and Vanity Companies
NAIROBI – Here at ground zero for the new era of African innovation, investors are learning what an impact investing “bubble” looks like. Too much…
Disrupting SMS Apps Space: Telerivet’s Distributed Mobile SMS Service using Android Phones
Most web and mobile startups in Africa need to have to some sort of messaging or notification layer that incorporates SMS. Wider businesses, large and…
The Role of Government in Promoting Tech Innovation in Africa
In talking about the efforts to promote technology and innovation in Africa, we tend to focus a lot of attention on private initiatives such as…
7 steps to raising Seed Investment for Africa focused Tech Startups – Afrinnovator
have observed quite a few entrepreneurs trying to raise seed investments for tech startups in Africa over the last few years. I myself raised $150k…
Three Lessons for Innovators & Techpreneurs: Learning From Ushahidi’s History
The Ushahidi crowdsourcing platform recently secured an additional $1.9 million round of funding from the Omidyar Network spanning 3 years. Ushahidi has definitely grown from strength to strength since 2008…
Innovation Funding in Africa: Are VCs & Impact Investors Taking Enough Risks?
There are an increasing number of new Venture Capital firms (VCs) present on the continent in the last few years such as Fanisi Capital that operate in…
BREAKING: Tusqee Systems Wins €25,000 at IPO48 Nairobi. Runners Up Ghafla! and 6ix Degrees Win Investment
It’s official. The winner of the IPO48 Nairobi 2011 is Tusqee Systems. Their idea to revolutionize the way more than 35,000 primary and secondary schools in…