• And this year’s winner of the ZOL Jumpstart Challenge is….

    We’re just from the ZOL Jumpstart Challenge finals where 6 startups battled it out for top spot of winner of the 2012 challenge. The winner of the challenge is Remote […]

  • ZOL Jumpstart Challenge finalist profile: Lost and Found

    This short series of 6 articles will cover the profiles of each of the six finalists that made it into the finals of this year’s ZOL Jumpstart Challenge to be held this […]

  • ZOL Jumpstart Challenge finalist profile: FootballZone

    This short series of 6 articles will cover the profiles of each of the six finalists that made it into the finals of this year’s ZOL Jumpstart Challenge to be […]

  • Event report: ZOL Jumpstart Challenge & BarCamp Zimbabwe 2012

    So we kept pushing forward an article about how BarCamp Zimbabwe 2012 and the two rounds of the ZOL Jumpstart Challenge went, but we have received enough emails reminding us […]

  • The ZOL Jumpstart Challenge 2012 finalists

    We’re just from the second day of startup pitches of the ZOL Jumpstart Challenge. Tired but in high spirits. From an initial total of 43 startup applications, today, 6 emerged […]

  • Raising money for your Startup, some options

    Whenever we have a conversation with entrepreneurs and techies the number one question is “How can I get funding?”. We’ve touched on this issue before but due to the frequency […]

  • Jumpstart announces BarCamp Zimbabwe 2012 & ZOL Jumpstart Challenge

    So it’s been a whole year since the first BarCamp and Startup Challenge, an another one is on the cards. This year’s challenge has been announced today on the Jumpstart website. The […]

  • mTutor wins Forgetmenot app challenge

    This weekend witnessed the exciting finale to the Forgetmenot eTXT Apps Challenge (16 – 17 June 2012). The finals featured seven teams of developers three of whom had travelled from […]

  • Jumpstart tackles funding for startups

    At Jumpstart’s last meeting held on 13 June 2012,  entrepreneurs had a chance to explore various funding models available to them. The keynote speaker at the event was Munya Chiura, Head […]

  • 5 Startup lessons from Facebook IPO

    So you are Tengesa, ForgetMeNot, Dariro, 6tm solutions, and countless other Zimbabwean and African startups that are hoping to change the world and you are looking at Facebook’s IPO; you […]

  • Zimbabwean launches startup in Silicon Valley at NewMe Demo Day

    One of the young that pitched at last year’s Startup Challenge, a startup competition for Zimbabweans that we ran last year with ZOL, is one called Yose. It was basically mobile telecoms service, that the judges it was very innovative and quite a great business model, but one whose chances of seeing the light of…

  • Presentation: What does it take to cultivate a startup?

    Commenting on the presentation made by ForgetmeNot Africa founder and Director of Technology yesterday, the QnA and the discussion that followed, a tech entreprenur at the event described it as “an eye opener”. It indeed was. And this is why we’re sharing the presentation with you here.

  • Why mobile operators should consider startup funding in Africa

    Paul Graham, Founder of the Y Combinator incubation hub once spoke of the ingredients required to create Silicon Valley. He summed it up as a combination of: Rich people (angel or VC investors) + Nerds (talent)

  • You can build a startup in Africa. Here’s how

    In 2011 Sarah Lacy, who was working at Techcrunch at the time but is now running a new tech blog known as Pandodaily, did the unthinkable by travelling to Nigeria on a mission to unravel its startup scene.

  • Perspective: Africa’s top 20 startups as ranked by Forbes

    The February edition of Forbes Africa has a feature profiling the top 20 startups from the African continent. As expected, mobile played a dominant role with Mxit coming up tops as the most promising startup. In the truest sense of the word startup, Mxit might not qualify as it went through institutional investors and is…

  • A critique of the Start-up Challenge

    The depth of talent showcased at The Start-up challenge gave me renewed optimism for Zimbabwe. I wish to congratulate the deserving finalists and the organisers for putting on a fantastic show. Although some projects didn’t end up making the finals, most had strong concepts and I hope the entrepreneurs are not discouraged but continue to…

  • ZOL Start-up Challenge: Predict and win competition winner

    Thank you for the overwhelming entries to everyone who participated in the ZOL Startup Challenge – Predict and Win competition. The winner of the 1.5GB ZOLspot voucher is Simbarashe D.

  • And the winner of the ZOL Start-up Challenge is…

    We’re here at the Crowne Plaza in Harare and the winner in the ZOL Startup Challenge 2011 has just been announced. It is the Mukela Travel team. The prize money for Mukela Travel is US $10,000. Of that, US $5,000 is cash and the other half in Internet services.

  • Startups, pride and open source

    Since I started working with the internet back in 2001, I have used open source software to create. Indeed, back then open source software was the only opportunity to create online for a lot of people. I was in a Zimbabwean city called Gweru, and software piracy then was not as rampant as it the…

  • Financial Express: a startup takes aim at Goliath

    Not too long ago, Kabweza and l met Tommy Deuschle of Big Africa – a start-up that has gone through many pivots. According to Tommy, the current focus of the company is to become a virtual startup/business accelerator by leveraging on the power of relationships in business. His aim is to create a self sustaining…

  • MTN rolls out Africa and Middle East Apps Challenge

    MTN Group- Africa’s biggest telecommunications firm; has introduced an Africa and Middle East focused app development contest. According to an article by Business Day South Africa last week, the company has begun the challenge as part of a build up to the launch of its own app store. It is inviting software developers across its…

  • Zimride: Silicon Valley Startup scouting for Zim talent

    It’s not everyday that a startup based in Silicon Valley; the home of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and just about every significant technology platform-eagerly looks to hire local talent. Well this is not just any startup, its Zimride! According to Logan Green; the startup’s co-founder and CEO, they are currently seeking to hire talent from…

  • 5 winners selected for the Muzinda Hub business competition

    One of the highlights, locally, was the Muzinda Hub Business Plan Competition which was the technology hub and training centre’s continental tech startup challenge. The finals of the event, which were streamed and held live via Google Handouts with 10 startups vying for recognition resulted in 5 startups being selected as winners.

  • Local DEMO Africa finalist, Road Rules launches Android App

    Road Rules App that was designed by a local startup and demoed in different startup challenges has now been launched on Google Play. We took a close look at what this app does.

  • Standard Chartered Zimbabwe wins best digital bank for 2021

    Global Finance Magazine named Standard Chartered Zimbabwe as the best digital bank in the first round of its annual Best Consumer Digital Bank Awards for 2021. Other categories in the […]

  • Future Picture: Why Zimbabwe Will Need The Internet Of Things

    I would like to share the story of why and how I built my first internet of things device. All interesting stories start with failure and frustration , my story […]

  • Announcing Techzim Events 2017…

    In a not so distant past Techzim hosted a number of events. From the Broadband Forum to the Digital Future. Not forgetting the well received Startup Challenge, that was hosted […]

  • The Ministry of ICT’s Innovators’ Showcase in pictures

    The Ministry of ICT and the telecoms regulator POTRAZ recently held an Innovators’ Showcase in Harare as part of its buildup for the ICT Innovation Fund. This event was a […]

  • Will Wangu takeoff as Zimbabwe’s Facebook or its own social network?

    I’ve honestly lost track of the number of social networks that pop up every year. In between all  the suggestions that I get on Facebook (oh the irony..) to sign […]

  • Just how ready are we for internet dating in Zimbabwe?

    Long before social media received a global definition from Mark Zuckerburg’s Harvard dormitory experiment, a lot of people had been experiencing the opportunity of the internet as huge meeting place for […]