Startups
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15MoTIV unveils ‘Tools to Create’ to support Uganda’s creative industry
As the world celebrates the International Year of the Creative Economy, MoTIV Uganda Ltd has launched an asset financing facility for Uganda’s...
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24gnuGrid raises $250,000 Series A fund for expansion
Uganda’s gnuGrid Africa has raised US$250,000 to distribute “Solar Sentra“, its digital solution in Uganda and across Africa. gnuGrid Africa says the funds were raised...
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35Nala enters the UK market, signs API deal with Modulr
NALA recently signed an Electronic Money Directive (EMD) agent deal with Modulr, as it finalizes its UK launch. The partnership is primarily...
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46Bolt raises €150M to improve its service quality and safety
Ride-hailing company, Bolt has raised €150 million in funding to improve the safety, security, and quality of its services. This is as...
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72Pollicy unveils the DataFest Kampala 2021 roadmap
The 3rd edition of DataFest Kampala has launched with a focus on exploring the role that data plays in how we navigate...
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362FinTech Stakeholders optimistic of future after 2020 spotlight
The COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented effects notwithstanding, Financial Technology stakeholders have had a lot of positives in 2020. These included world...
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355Kawooya Innocent voted onto Mojaloop Foundation Council
Kampala Mayor aspirant, Innocent Kawooya, is eating big even before he eats City Hall. He recently announced on his page that he...
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427Jumia raises $243.2mn from its “at the market” offering
E-commere platform, Jumia Technologies AG – which we all know as Jumia – has announced the completion of its “at the market”...
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311Sokowatch adds electric TukTuks to its Uganda delivery fleet
Sokowatch has announced the launch and addition of electric tuktuks to its delivery fleet in Uganda. This is the first time electric...
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339Social crypto payments app, Bundle, launches in Ghana
In April, we told you about the launch of a social payments app for African users by Binance. The app, named Bundle,...
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290List of the nominees for the 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa
HiPipo; the organizers of the annual Digital Impact Awards Africa have released the list of nominees for the 7th edition of the...
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294SafeBoda pausing Kenya operations effective 27th November
While we thought the effects of COVID-19 were not adverse in regards to the technology industry, the case might be different. As...
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231Nigerian Fintech startup, Kuda, raises $10m seed round
Nigerian fintech startup, Kuda, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round, in its bid to expand further across the African...
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226President Museveni launches Gulu Logistics Hub
H.E. President Yoweri Museveni on 24th October participated in the ground-breaking of two flagship projects; construction of the Gulu Logistics Hub, and...
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355Submissions for the 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa start
HiPipo; the organizers of the annual Digital Impact Awards Africa have started receiving entries for the 2020 Digital Impact Awards Africa (#DIAA2020). ...
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327Stripe acquires Paystack for $200m to expand into Africa
US-based payments company Stripe is in the final stages of acquiring Nigerian-based startup Paystack for a deal worth $200 million. Like Stripe,...
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262KIW Awards: A life line for startups in the new normal
As the economy slowly makes its way to some semblance of normalcy, it cannot be denied that the year 2020 has been...
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338Sokowatch wins 2020 ‘Visa Everywhere Initiative’
Sokowatch, the innovative East African e-commerce platform, was named as the winner of the recently concluded Visa Everywhere Initiative – Pandemic Challenge...
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402List of the top 20 Anzisha Prize 2020 Finalists
As the Anzisha Prize celebrates 10 years of supporting young entrepreneurs, it has listed the top 20 finalists for the 2020 edition....
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344FinTechs urged to tap into Women entrepreneurs
Ugandan Financial Technology (FinTech) companies have been advised to involve more women in the conceptualization, designing and development of Fintech products and...
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413AS Roma, Chipper Cash partner to drive impact in Africa
AS Roma has announced that Chipper will be the club’s official Money Transfer Platform for Africa. The announcement signals the start of...
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304Autochek acquires Cheki Nigeria and Cheki Ghana
Autochek, the automotive technology company recently founded by former Cars45 CEO Etop Ikpe, has announced the acquisition of automotive marketplaces Cheki Nigeria...
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337Damali Ssali: Financial Management is as important as Product Development
Damali Ssali; a Ugandan Chartered Accountant, Financial Inclusion Advocate, Business and Trade Development Expert has today urged start-ups to prioritize both proper...
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280Maggie Kigozi mentors Women in FinTech Hackathon teams
Prof. Maggie Kigozi; a Ugandan Business Champion, Investment Promotion Expert, Entrepreneur, Farmer, Feminist, Chairperson of the Africa Scout Foundation and Senior Consultant...
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331Women in FinTech Hackathon underway
The first of its kind Women in FinTech Hackathon is currently underway in Kampala with 15 women led and dominated teams taking...
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36115 Teams shortlisted for Women in FinTech Hackathon
As part of its on-going Financial Inclusion efforts in Uganda and across Africa, HiPipo is implementing the Women in FinTech hackathon and...
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327Hilda Kabushenga appointed new ROAM Africa Jobs MD
Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM Africa) has announced the appointment of Jobberman Nigeria CEO, Hilda Kabushenga Kragha as the new Managing Director...
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316Charlette N’Guessan wins the 2020 Engineering Innovation prize
Charlette N’Guessan, a Cote D’Ivorian technology entrepreneur in Accra, was announced winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s prestigious 2020 Africa Prize...
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426List of the 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes top 20 finalists
The Africa Business Heroes competition has announced the top 20 finalists for its 2020 prize. It is from these that they will...
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469SoO Listings App: Local businesses right at your fingertips
The world today dictates that everything ought to be online, or else you might miss out on potential clients. One innovation that...
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445The 2020 Kampala Innovation Week is going virtual
Kampala Innovation Week (KIW) 2020, the fourth in the event series, will be held virtually for the first time. This has been...
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404These are the 2020 Ecobank FinTech Challenge winners
Ecobank Group has announced the winners of its 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge following a virtual event streamed live from Accra, Ghana. Nokwary...
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431NALA is turning into a personal finance management tool
For a while now, making transactions has been an easy job for anyone that has the NALA app installed on their smartphone....
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502Registration for Women in FinTech Hackathon kicks-off
As part of its on-going Financial Inclusion efforts in Uganda and across Africa, HiPipo has unveiled the Women in FinTech hackathon and...
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6622Gule: The ultimate place to shop online and ship to Uganda
Have you tried to shop online from sites abroad such as Amazon, Fashion Nova, or even eBay for your favourite products but decided against...
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443Nokia phone maker, HMD Global, secures $230mn in Series A2 round
The maker of Nokia phones, HMD Global, has secured $230 million in the first of its Series A2 funding round. The sum...
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List of the 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge Finalists
Ecobank Group has announced the finalists from the 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The challenge, in its third edition, is designed to deepen...
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467Jobberman, Mastercard to place 3 million Nigerians in employment by 2025
Jobberman, the single largest online job placement and training website in sub-Saharan Africa, has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to tackle unemployment...
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433FileTax is helping businesses file taxes with ease
While some people and businesses in Uganda would be willing to pay taxes, the cumbersome procedures make it difficult for many to...
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482Yapheh: Offering salon services at a click of a button
If there is anything that the corona virus crisis has taught business people in Uganda and world over, it is the power...
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429Trade-Lance: Using tech to leave a lasting mark in lives
While the COVID-19 crisis has taught people the importance of digital technologies in all aspects of life, its importance has been greatly...
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654Jumia Uganda appoints Julian Byamugisha as new Logistics Country Manager
Jumia Uganda has announced Julian Byamugisha as their new Jumia Services Country Manager. Jumia Services aggregates a network of self-managed and third-party...
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393Hamwe East Africa: Digitizing agriculture
Digital agriculture is increasingly gaining prominence across the world. It is predicted that by 2021, the digital agriculture market, including value of...
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516Merchandise Uganda: Linking sellers to buyers
Merchandise Uganda, an e-commerce platform that connects sellers to buyers is increasingly gaining prominence in Uganda, owing to its ability to connect...
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382Yo Uganda: Demystifying digital wallets in Uganda
Mobile wallets have over the past few years become a buzzword in most countries across the world, including Uganda. However, one name stands...
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276Mwanjala kicks off digital financial inclusion drive in Zambia
Mwanjala Technologies, a Zambian company based in Kitwe Lusaka seeks to connect buyers and sellers with proper delivery lines and digital payment...
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421Mindset Coders: Equipping children with coding skills
There is growing demand in developed nations for schools to teach children coding from an early age. This is because most schools...
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303StarTimes Solar lights up rural communities
While previously life for most Ugandans, especially those living in rural areas, would come to near standstill after sunset due to lack...
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427GES Online School: Education amid Covid-19 pandemic
While the Covid-19 pandemic caught nations unware, paralyzing businesses and service provision in many countries, it also sparked off a wave of...
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476JUMO: Social impact financial products to the unbanked
Reimagining finance in emerging markets by extending financial services to the underserved and the excluded has been JUMO’s goal since inception. This explains...
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465Swipe2Pay: Helping SMEs transit to e-payments, access loans
The evolution of Financial Technology companies (FinTechs) is increasingly playing a critical role in salvaging informally operated Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs),...
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274Frontier Alliance: Making diaspora remittances easy & affordable
While Sub-Saharan Africa countries are among the largest recipients of diaspora remittances, the region also suffers with some of the highest transfer...
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294Lend in a Box: Boosting financial inclusion
With financial exclusion still a big challenge globally, players in the financial technology space are increasingly working towards breaking the barriers by...
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359MyLib: Bringing primary school revision and learning alive
While education experts in Uganda put the ideal teacher-pupils ratio at one teacher to 53 pupils, most schools have three times the...
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664Jumia: Africa’s celebrated e-commerce platform
Jumia, an e-commerce retail and logistics service platform that connects sellers with consumers has been hailed as one of Africa’s greatest success...
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476Flutterwave: Integrating businesses to ease cross-border payments
A growing number of businesses and buyers in Africa are increasingly embracing e-commerce, thanks to COVID-19 that saw governments enforce restrictions on...
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584Pegasus Technologies making a difference in digital payments space
It may still be a nascent industry but Uganda is increasingly making huge leaps in the digital payment technologies space. Huge sums of...
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440Andela is now available in all African countries
Andela will now accept software builders from all African countries, in a bid to double its global talent pool and connect an...
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366Xente: Facilitating cashless transactions across Africa
While Europe, America and Asia, the main trading partners with Africa are increasingly getting cashless, over 90 per cent of the population...
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347SafeBoda: Transforming the transport sector with value
With huge traffic congestion in most African cities, the easiest way for one to travel from one point to another is by...
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292Nakasero Market Portal delivers groceries to your door step
When RG-Consult started working on the Nakasero Market portal that would allow people to order for groceries from the market and have...
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381Craft Silicon: Game-changer in payments space
The payment industry is increasingly experiencing a high level of disruption that is reshaping the payments space, thanks to a surge of...
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291UgMart: Facilitating cross-border payments
The Ugandan economy is heavily weighted in international trade, especially as an importer, mainly from China. Despite this, traders were finding challenges with...
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359Enabling Finance is playing a role in democratizing financial services
Making financial services available to more people by lowering costs and barriers to access is increasingly becoming a key focus area for...
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263Buladde: A Sacco for land development
While most Ugandans describe land as the key to wealth, leaving it idle for years is not a smart idea. In Uganda, it...
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500Sqoin: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies to boost financial inclusion
Blockchain technology and Cryptocurrencies – digital representation of value that are digitally traded and act as a medium of exchange, a unit...
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332ChapChap: changing the narrative about SMEs
Talk about Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda and they will tell you how majority die before celebrating their fifth...
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291Cytrone’s free digital transactions to boost financial inclusion
Ugandans across the country could soon be able to access safe and convenient financial services if Cytrone launches its free financial inclusion...
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314Social Lend Africa: Closing financing gap for small businesses
While micro, small and medium enterprises account for over 80% of businesses in Uganda and employ the largest number of the country’s...
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297True African is turning around payments in Uganda
Over the past few years, distinctions between financial institutions and telecom service providers have been gradually breaking, thanks to the emergence of...
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594Chipper Cash raises $13.8 Million in Series A funding round
Cross-border payments platform, Chipper Cash, has announced the closure of a $13.8 million Series A funding that was co-led by Deciens Capital...
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294Trustfinity: Enhancing refugees’ access to saving and credit
While access to affordable financial services plays a vital role in enabling refugees cope with negative shocks, reduce exposure to risk and...
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331Lusuku Online: Linking farmers to buyers
Many small farmers in Uganda usually sell their produce at giveaway prices as middlemen often exploit them by offering low prices even...
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616Here’s how Uganda ranks in the 2020 Global Startup rankings
The 2020 Startup Ecosystem report form StartupBlink is out! The third edition of the report, which uncovers the trends of innovation throughout...
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204YOTV: Serving TV and Value Addition
With an increasing number of Ugandans having busy work schedules, it is increasingly getting clear that the future of television is going...
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192Computing Palace Technologies: leading in management systems development
While financial management skills are key for the survival of any enterprise, most micro, small and medium size enterprises and savings groups...
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264Beyonic: Facilitating a shift to a cashless Uganda
While Uganda started efforts to boost a cashless economy over a decade ago, majority of Ugandans still prefer cash. Available statistics indicate that...
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211Alpteq ICT Solutions: serving the underserved
Alpteq ICT Solutions is a Financial Technology Company (FinTech) with a mission to become a leader in providing homemade solutions that mostly...
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252Yassako: Mallan helping you access electricity on credit.
Ugandans may before long be able to access electricity on credit if Mallan Company Limited, a local Financial Technology company (FinTech) successfully...
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321Kanzu Code on the path to boosting financial inclusion.
Kanzu Code, a Financial Technology Company (FinTech) that builds inclusive financial tools is set for greater heights, following its enrollment in the...
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758Founders of Kobo360 Selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs
Endeavor recently welcomed two new entrepreneurs into its global network. Obi Ozor and Ife Oyedele II, co-founders of Kobo360, were selected as...
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567Gumzo: A video conferencing system Made-in-Africa
As the demand for video calling is high as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Kenyan gaming tech start-up, Usiku Games recently...
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527Bolt secures €100M investment from Naya Capital
Ride hailing app Bolt, formerly Taxify, has announced that it’s securing a €100-million investment from UK based investors, Naya Capital Management. The...
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3.6K40 DAYS 40 FINTECHs: Simplifying payments interoperability
As part of its on-going Financial Inclusion efforts, HiPipo has officially launched the 40 DAYS 40 FINTECHs initiative with online registration currently...
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Inside Andela staff layoff in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Egypt and USA
This week, Andela announced that it is to layoff 135 employees, literally 10% of the company’s staff. The employees affected are in...
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457GSMA opens £250k grant for startups helping people get online
The GSM Association has opened applications for its Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion and is offering equity-free grants of between...
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760How Ugandan farmers can use EzyAgric app during this COVID-19 lockdown
There is no doubt that by the time this COVID-19 period ends, our lives will almost have been rest to a new...
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576Andela unveils Uganda’s 2019 Developer ecosystem report
Andela, the engineering as-a-service business that helps companies build teams quickly and cost-effectively so that they can ship faster has officially launched...
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Bolt (former Taxify) reportedly seeking bailout from Estonian government
Ride-hailing company Bolt Technology, formerly known as Taxify, is seeking for a credit support bailout from the Estonian government. This is after...
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Rocket Internet sells its stake in e-commerce firm Jumia
German tech investor Rocket Internet has sold its stake in African e-commerce company Jumia, which has seen its shares steadily fall since...
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735Here’s Odukar Store: A quality electronics online shop
The world today is about convenience. A number of innovations and inventions are deemed successful if only they can stand out in...
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788You can order a smartphone that meets your needs from Pixan
How about having a smartphone that fits all your specification needs? From memory, screen size, battery capacity, and it all! Pixan Inc, a...
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606The Ecobank 2020 Fintech Challenge is here: Here’s how to apply
Ecobank is now inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter this year’s Fintech Challenge. The Challenge, now in its third edition, gives African start-ups...
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883How to buy Yaka and pay for electricity on Eversend
Electricity is a modern basic need and the introduction of Yaka meters in Uganda has made it easier to monitor usage in...
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533A tribute to Kobe Bryant, the selfless Techpreneur
The world over has mourned the sudden death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday in...
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804The Innovation Village Kampala is expanding to Gulu, Jinja, and Mbarara
It’s been just over four years of programmes and projects based in Kampala, and The Innovation Village is thinking of a new...
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613YellowBird spices up ride-sharing with Car Pooling feature
As economies grow, and tech takes shape, service cost saving becomes easier to implement. Rising ride-sharing app, YellowBIRD, is revolutionizing the industry...
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423Antler secures $50 million funding round for expansion
Global startup generator and early stage venture capital firm, Antler, recently raised an additional $50m into the company and its funds in...
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562Chipper Cash plans Southern Africa expansion after $6M seed round
Cross-border remittance and P2P payments platform, Chipper Cash, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Deciens Capital. Raptor Group also...
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681These are the winners of the first Disruptive Agricultural Technology (DAT) Challenge in Uganda
Winners of the first Disruptive Agricultural Technology (DAT) Challenge in Uganda were announced at a conference held at Speke Resort Munyonyo in...
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664Chinese investors fund $120 million into Opera’s fintech startup OPay
Opera’s African focused fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B funding round from Chinese investors. According to the company’s...
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638Uganda hosting 2019 Disruptive Agricultural Technology and Innovation Challenge
In collaboration with the World Bank Group, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), is hosting the DAT Innovation Challenge...
