Endeavor Kenya, a non-profit organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs, has launched its inaugural cohort-based initiative for high-growth founders, the ScaleUp Program. The program will identify ten high-growth ventures based in East Africa and support them [c]
African tech ventures can now apply to pitch at the Africa Tech Summit (ATS) Investment Showcase taking place at the sixth edition in Nairobi on February 14 and 15, 2024. The annual Investment Showcase is [c]
Kaspersky has announced the launch of an all-new Cybersecurity for Executives Online Training, crucial for today’s digital businesses and entrepreneurs. The cybersecurity training is essential for risk management, crisis response, while also empowering business leaders when making [c]
Moove, the mobility fintech, has secured $8 million in financing from Absa Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), bringing its total funding to-date from the bank to $28 million. This follows Moove’s $20 million financing facility [c]
Ventures Platform, the pan-African VC firm championing the next generation of African technology entrepreneurs, has announced the final close of its early-stage and intercontinental fund, at $46 million. Surpassing its initial $40 million target, the [c]
Equity Group has been feted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Global SME Finance Awards 2022 as the platinum winner for the Best Financier for Women Entrepreneurs. The Group was also named the silver [c]
By Susan Situma Kenya’s improvement in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2022 Global Gender Gap Index is a strong indicator of women’s growing participation in the country’s economic development. According to the report, Kenya’s global [c]
The Social & Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC) launched its 2022 edition on August 30, 2022, welcoming the 43 entrepreneurs selected for the 2022 cohort. The social and inclusive entrepreneurs were chosen among more than 380 [c]
Endeavor has announced that the three co-founders of Field – that is Michael Moreland, Justin Lorenzon, and Peter Bunor – have been selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs at the 26th Virtual International Selection Panel (vISP) held [c]
Over 1,000 women SME owners across Nairobi County have benefited from a five-day financial training tour designed to help women entrepreneurs running small businesses strengthen their financial situations in the post-pandemic era. The training, organised [c]
By Muthoni K Entrepreneurship is like a long and treacherous journey. There are ups and downs. Sometimes one wins, and sometimes one loses. The secret lies in always pushing, having the will, energy, and zeal [c]
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, through its innovation and partnerships arm Liquid Labs, is launching three online courses on legal technology, targeted at supporting career development amongst students, budding entrepreneurs, and lawyers. The programme has been possible [c]
Aspiring and early-stage young African entrepreneurs in creative industries – like fashion, music, film and photography – are being offered the chance to join a new e-learning programme launched by the British Council. The Creative [c]
Huawei, in partnership with South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, has officially launched the Women4Tech digital skills training programme, with an attendance of 107 women entrepreneurs. The initiative aims to help women advance [c]
With the goal of developing youth’s digital skills in Egypt, Vodafone Egypt has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft. The partnership combines the efforts of Vodafone through Begin platform and Microsoft initiative Tawar [c]
Despite the gender gap and social challenges, entrepreneurial women across the world and in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) are leading the way in tapping into the power of the digital economy to succeed [c]
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