It’s high time we articulate a proper path for the future of this country and decide where we want to be competitively. Government needs to figure out ways it can […]
There is a night and day difference between the South African economy and our own – and the venture capital (VC) investments made within South Africa last year are a […]
So I for one don’t see why there is such a fuss. What’s the difference between being 9 years old and being 10 or more importantly between 10 and 11? […]
[Image Source: Stanbic] Over the weekend Stanbic Bank Zim launched their very own Incubator Hub. Whilst we were not in attendance, the launch of the Incubator Hub (yeah, the name […]
We sat down with the founder of the TechVillage, Takunda Chingonzo and spoke to him at length about the gaming accelerator Tech Village and Elevate partnered on last year. The […]
On the back of Standard Chartered launching their fully digital banking app – SC Mobile- in Zimbabwe, we sat down with the bank’s Country Head for Retail Banking Valeta Mthimkhulu […]
We’ve written about Zindi before, the platform puts up AI/Data science problems that they pay African’s for solving. It’s quite the platform and if you’re an AI professional (or fanatic), […]
Fintech’s have been a huge deal on the African continent as they try to solve problems such as financial inclusion. In the last 12-18 month’s investment in fintech’s on the […]
Local startups face some pretty intense challenges when it comes to securing funding because venture capital is hard to come by locally. This means every time an event like Founders […]
Introduction For a long time, Africa has shown promise but has never quite become the proverbial “promised land” for its 1.2billion people. With a young growing population, expectations are high […]
If you’re a university student you may have already come across or actually used The Housing Hub to get off-campus accommodation. The issue of getting accommodation off-campus is a real […]
Seedstars is partnering with First Growth Ventures to launch Seedstars Africa Ventures, a sub-Saharan Africa fund targeting $100mn to make early-stage minority investments from USD 250,000 to USD 5 million […]
Samora & First Consultants is partnering with Palladium Zimbabwe and BMatanga IP Attorneys for Africa along with its UAE government, semi-government and private sector innovation partners to host the first […]
The Zimbabwean economic scenario is well known for its challenges and opportunities. Building a successful startup is clearly not a walk in the park! Which is why we have very […]
This week’s biggest news is that Cassava Smartech has disrupted its dominant mobile money platform, EcoCash. They have taken the crown from the service on their own terms rather than […]
Among many other things that have hindered the growth of Zim’s startup sector, lack of capital or funding really stands out. Whether its capital to scale or to get the […]
Deals. Deals. Deals. African tech start-ups dominated headlines for record-breaking fundraise announcements in 2018. Cellulant raised. Tizeti raised. mSurvey raised. Farmcrowdy raised. Piggybank raised. Kobo360 raised. Jumo raised. Zola Electric raised.TradeDepot raised. Africa’s Talking raised And there’s more. Recent reports estimate that tech start-ups have secured $334.5M […]
Recently we talked about a website that was collating data on the productive hours Zimbabweans are wasting as they wait in fuel queues. Well Gas On Fly is an app […]
Kudakwashe Dhliwayo is a passionate 25 year old entrepreneur from Bulawayo who is working on our rubbish problems. Her business is called Vital Recycling and its quite methodical in its […]
Last month we had a chance to sit and interview a forex trader and it seems a lot of people had an interest in knowing more about forex trading. Luckily […]
Three local startups will represent Zimbabwe at the Regional Grand Finale of the Southern Africa Start-up Awards 2018 that are going to be held in South Africa later this month. […]
Zimbabwe remains one of the topmost havens of software piracy in the world, thanks to our country’s lax enforcement of trademark and copyright law in this area. According to the […]
Cellulant, a leading digital payments provider that reaches 40 million people across 11 African countries has been named among the Top 50 emerging Fintech companies in the world in this […]
We’ve heard the craze surrounding big data, AI and data science as a whole, but we haven’t seen is the effects of data science being felt in Africa the same […]
It’s a prevailing trend that people are finding it difficult to find jobs that they really want. At the same time, companies are not getting the kind people they really […]
The AppsAfrica award ceremony is meant to showcase the most exciting innovations on the African continent in as many as 14 different categories; including fields such as agriculture, blockchain and […]
Recently our own president was officiating at an event where Liquid Telecom was unveiling an initiative to give free WiFi access to students. This is a great initiative. Google is […]
It seems Econet subsidiary Cumii will be introducing their very own ride-hailing service in the coming months. If you are not familiar with what we are referring to when we […]
Some years ago I founded an EdTech (educational technology) startup. We had solutions for primary and secondary schools. The solution may have been not so good or maybe it was […]
Disrupt Africa released the Agrinnovating for Africa: Exploring the African Agri-Tech Startup Ecosystem Report 2018 and now they have released a press release detailing how the Agri-Tech space has been going […]