Seed Academy SA has launched the 5th edition of their annual Real State Of Entrepreneurship Survey. The platform allows you to give your views on what is happening to your business and impact thinking around entrepreneurship. n exchange for your views, you stand the chance to win a stand at Smart Procurement World - South...
Think your firm’s products are among some of the best mobile and tech solutions from across Africa? Entries are now open for the fifth annual AppsAfrica Innovation Awards which aim to showcase the continent’s most innovative mobile and tech ventures. The awards provide winners with industry recognition, global publicity and networking with over 300 industry peers at the...
For the second year, AfricArena is proud to partner with Hello Tomorrow on their deep-tech Africa Challenge. The Africa Challenge is part of the world-renowned Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge which is a unique science-startup competition specifically designed for the needs of early-stage deep tech startups. Participating startups in the Global Challenge can gain access to equity-free funding (up to...
The SA SME Fund is partnering with AfricArena – Africa's premier ecosystem accelerator – to identify tech-based small-to-medium enterprises (SME) in South Africa that have a high potential for scale. This joint initiative, the SA Startup Nation Challenge, is seeking Pre-Series A tech start-ups incorporated in South Africa and which have distinctive product-market fit,...
Solving society’s biggest problems is not easy, but it can be done. 100&Change is a MacArthur Foundation competition for a $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that will make measurable progress toward solving a significant problem. 100&Change will select a bold proposal that promises real progress toward solving a critical problem of our time. And it will award...
Merck has launched a joint startup programme, which will give 20 top healthtech startups an opportunity to partner with the German science and tech firm. The programme, which Merck has launched in partnership with tech initiative Make-IT in Africa, includes three focus areas, namely: digital solutions in the health sector, liquid biopsy technologies and bio-sensing and interfaces. Applications close on...
Check out the new Shasta GTM Trek – a place where entrepreneurs can get their go-to-market (GTM) questions answered and gain insights from fellow entrepreneurs. After 15 years of working with companies like Zuora, Anaplan, Apptio, Dollar Shave Club, Glint, Mint, and Nest, among others, they know that the most important role they play in...
Google today opened applications for the fourth class of its Launchpad Africa accelerator to startups in 17 countries across the continent including Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe are able to apply to participate in the programme and is looking...
Citizens need solutions to their pressing justice problems. A justice innovation is: Helping people prevent or resolve a pressing justice need Helping people resolve problems in their daily lives Helping improve the effectiveness of justice systems Has the ability to help millions of people If you have a project that fits the above, you are...
The call is open to all developers, ICT experts, engineers and innovators, to join Africa50 in finding sustainable solutions to respond to Africa’s most critical and pressing infrastructure development challenges. Africa50’s Innovation Challenge provides you with an unparalleled opportunity to get your solution in front of our investment team and project funding partners, as well...
