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VC4A Update Expansion VC4A Startup Academy: 19 new modules and 44 additional industry experts Kick off the new year
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African Guarantee Fund receives €25 million to support small businesses
The African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (AGF) has received a capital increase amounting to EUR 25 million
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Apply Now for The 2018 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme
The Tony Elumelu Foundation has opened its application portal for the 5th cycle of its $100million Entrepreneurship Programme. Entrepreneurs across
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36 Game Changer Startups that could change the World in 2019
CB INSIGHTS has released their report on Emerging trends to watch and high-momentum startups with world-changing potential. These high-momentum startups
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Applications for Tony Elumelu Foundation TEF Entrepreneurship Programme 2019 Open 1st January on TEFConnect
The Tony Elumelu Foundation will open the 5th TEF Entrepreneurship Programme application cycle on Jan 1st , 2019 Applications will
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Crunchbase Daily: Minted, Procore, Luckin Coffee, G2 Crowd and Siftery
Minted scoops up $208M San Francisco-based Minted, an online platform for crowdsourcing designs from independent artists, raised $208 million in
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Trending programs on VC4A
Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0 The challenge is looking for entrepreneurs with promising health care solutions. Selected applicants will receive up
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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 highlights achievements of top innovators and startups in Africa
M-SCAN, a company that develops portable mobile ultrasound devices (Ultrasonic probes), was crowned as Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most Promising Startup at TechCrunch
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Socially conscious startups scale up as Firefly raises $21.5M for car ads
Socially conscious startups scale up Crunchbase News takes a look at a few socially conscious startups that have raised funding
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IFC selects 100 high-potential start-ups to participate in Africa’s Next Start-Ups program
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in cooperation with Egypt’s Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation (MIIC) have
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Youth for Africa and Sustainable Development Goals, YAS!, to support young entrepreneurs launched for West and North Africa
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Accenture announced the launch of YAS! (Youth for Africa and Sustainable Development Goals)
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Time Between Venture Rounds Is Shrinking
Time Between Venture Rounds Is Shrinking The time between successive venture rounds funding is getting smaller, according to a Crunchbase
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Biogas helps rural Cameroonians break dependence on firewood – AfricaNews
Cameroonian entrepreneur Boma Mohammed is on a mission to empower others to become more energy self-sufficient. He’s training young people
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Ex-Googlers take the helm of self-driving startups
Ex-Googlers take the helm of self-driving startups Six of the most well-funded startups in the autonomous vehicle sector ( self-driving
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Do not miss these Trending Programs on VC4A with approaching deadlines
Do not miss out on these trending Programs on VC4A with approaching deadlines. Booking Booster 2019 The Booking Booster 2019
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Mainone partners with MEST to provide high-speed internet for MEST Incubator
MainOne has partnered with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) to provide high-speed internet access to the MEST Incubator in Ikoyi, Lagos.
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Habitat for Humanity Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter launches first ShelterTech Accelerator Kenya program
Habitat for Humanity’s (www.Habitat.org/emea) Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter launches its first ShelterTech Accelerator Kenya program. It aims to facilitate
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Crunchbase Daily: Neo4j, Monzo, Seed, Molekule and Handshake
Neo4j closes $80M Series E Neo4j, a Swedish-American open source-powered graph database startup, has raised $80 million in a Series
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KudiGo is built for retail micro-smes in Africa
KudiGo is a mobile based retail management POS application built on the power blockchain technology for value chain oversight and
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MTN and Google train SMEs in Abuja on digital tools
In continuation of its tradition to boost entrepreneurship in Nigeria, MTN Nigeria alongside Google has trained about 30 Small and
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The U.S. still leads SaaS startup scene
U.S. still leads SaaS startup scene China has pulled ahead of the U.S. in venture funding totals for 2018. But
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2018 DEMO Africa winners announced
DEMO Africa has announced the five winners for the for the 2019 edition of the Lions@frica Innovation Tour in Silicon
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SMEDAN partners ASVAN to hosts national trade summit
Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) in partnership with Association of Skilled and Vocational Artisans of Nigeria (ASVAN) is
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Crunchbase Daily: SoftBank, WeWork, Meicai, Egnyte, and GoWork
Asia Pacific funding stayed high in Q3 Venture investment in the Asia Pacific region held up at historically high levels
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Microsoft Partners with DEMO Africa to empower African startups
Microsoft has teamed up with the Lions@frica initiative of the African Technology Foundation to empower the startups finalists that will
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