Startups Archives - Page 9 of 20

26Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Medicine, Nigeria News, Startups

30 African Startups in Healthcare Supply Chains Selected for Support from Gates Foundation, MSD, WHO-AFRO and More

The i3 program is excited to announce the selection of 30 African startups that are leading the way in innovative health solutions. These startups come from 14 different countries and are working on novel solutions for device and medicine distribution, stock management and financing, authentication, traceability, medical waste management and more. 47% of the companies are women-led, and 30% of the companies are operating in Francophone Africa. Ann Allen, Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, comments: "Digitally-enabled, locally-led innovations have huge potential to help address the challenges of access to medicines for historically unserved patients in Africa. We are thrilled to see strong women leaders at the helm of many of these startups, as we know innov...

21Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Business, Startups

The African Business Landscape: Evolving and Growing

The African business landscape is undergoing a transformational shift, with more businesses and startups in Africa than ever before. According to the latest research, there are now over 2,000 businesses and startups in Africa that have received investment from venture capitalists. This is a significant increase from just a few years ago, when there were only a handful of African businesses that had attracted investment from VCs. The rise in VC investment in Africa is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing global interest in Africa as an investment destination, the growth of the African consumer market, and the rise of African entrepreneurship. There are many reasons why VCs are increasingly investing in Africa, but the most important reason is the continent's enor...

2 Ethiopian startups are in the running for TAW (Tech African Women) prize

20Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Ethiopia News, Startups

2 Ethiopian startups are in the running for TAW (Tech African Women) prize

The TAW (Tech African Women) program, launched by the UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) in partnership with Betacube, closed its 3-day Ethiopian bootcamp on September 9th, 2022. The event was organized in partnership with AdoreAddis and the two Ethiopian winning startups were each awarded the program's participation prize of $2,000. The selection process was based on the market potential of each startup idea and was made after a pitching competition in front of a local jury panel representing different actors in the ecosystem. The focus on social impact and women entrepreneurs makes this an important initiative that is sure to have a positive effect on the development of Africa as a whole. The goal of this bootcamp was to provide young entrepreneurs with the tools the...

Tanzanian startups nominated for TAW final in Ethiopia

15Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Ethiopia News, Startups, Tanzania News

Tanzanian startups nominated for TAW final in Ethiopia

The TAW (Tech African Women) program, launched by the UNECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) in partnership with Betacube, closed its 3-day Tanzanian bootcamp on the 31st of August 2022. The two Tanzanian winning startups were awarded the program's participation prize, with $2,000 for the first winner Ujana. The selection was based on the market potential of each startup idea and was made after a pitching competition in front of a local jury panel representing different actors in the ecosystem. During this closing day of the Tanzanian bootcamp, an award ceremony was organized for the candidates. The two nominees were Ujana, an E-commerce platform for Sexual-Reproductive health supplies (1st prize) and Plate AI (2nd prize), a food app that recommends thousands of healthy foo...

New carbon-neutral online shopping service launches in South Africa

15Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

South Africa News, Startups

New carbon-neutral online shopping service launches in South Africa

With a goal to curb carbon emissions, South African startup Curbon, will make carbon-neutral online shopping possible through the launch of the country’s very first plugin created to help fight climate change. Curbon’s unique offering gives shoppers the opportunity to take direct, meaningful climate action with every online purchase. Using data from the world’s leading climate science institutions, the startup’s flagship product estimates the emissions of customers’ carts at checkout and empowers shoppers to neutralise the carbon footprint of their purchases on e-commerce stores in real-time. Dedicated to minimising the environmental impact of the entire e-commerce value chain, Curbon’s API uses the process of carbon offsetting to reduce, and ultimately neutralise, the carbon equivalen...

Sentech Africa Tech Week 2022: Connecting Africa for a Digital Future

15Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

South Africa News, Startups

Sentech Africa Tech Week 2022: Connecting Africa for a Digital Future

Sentech Africa Tech Week 2022 made its fourth consecutive appearance this year, providing a platform where 5,000 attendees came together - in person and virtually - to learn, be inspired, and meet those in the industry who are making a remarkable impact on solving Africa's unique challenges. Held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on August 31st and September 1st, various panel discussions were held sharing insights across topics such as the Internet of Things, broadband connectivity, cloud services and blockchain technology - to name a few. The CEO of Topco Media, Ralf Fletcher, believes that Africa is facing unique challenges that can only be solved by Africans. He shared that Africa Tech Week saw an explosion of excitement about current products and services that are bei...

13Sep

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Startups

African Innovative Startups Join the Social & Inclusive Business Camp Program

On August 30th, the SIBC officially launched its 6th edition, welcoming the 43 entrepreneurs selected for the 2022 cohort. These social and inclusive entrepreneurs were chosen among more than 380 applications across Africa to participate in an intensive program aimed at preparing them for scaling up, through training, mentoring, peer-to-peer exchanges and meetings with investors. To contribute to the acceleration of social and inclusive innovation on the African continent; This is the objective set by the French Development Agency with the launch of the Social & Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC) program in 2017, led by the AFD Campus. Each year, the SIBC brings to a cohort of English- and French-speaking African entrepreneurs a very thorough support on 5 key themes for their scale up. L...

8Aug

By Paula MokwenaNo Comments

South Africa News, Startups

Creating a sustainable positive impact in South African communities begins with investing in innovative, globally relevant tech solutions

By Paula Mokwena, CEO & Head of Direct Investments, Fireball Capital South Africa is home to innovative technology companies that have developed solutions that are solving real global challenges. The country is well-established as one of the continent’s “big four” startup ecosystems, and leads the way for exits, with more than one-third of the acquisitions that have taken place across the African tech space since 20151. The tech sector is actively addressing a myriad of challenges, ranging from unemployment, all the way to education, health, and financial inclusion. South Africa has one of the most unequal school systems in the world, with 85% 2 of students attending poorly funded, and dysfunctional schools. This was further exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw schools ado...

Startupbootcamp AfriTech pilots $7m Gates Foundation program to uplift South African HealthTech startups

12Jul

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Startups

Startupbootcamp AfriTech pilots $7m Gates Foundation program to uplift South African HealthTech startups

In recent years, African HealthTech has recorded impressive growth, as the majority of Africans rely on under-funded public health facilities while a small minority have access to well-funded, quality private health care. It is a reality that across much of Africa, health systems suffer from serious inefficiencies and are widely inaccessible, and this was exasperated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This led to traditional healthcare providers adopting new tech products such as virtual healthcare platforms, telemedicine, drones, big data analytics, wearables, and information management to improve overall health outcomes. More than 40 health-tech start-ups on the continent received series A funding in 2020 alone [1]. Almost a year ago, the Moroccan consulting firm Southbridge A&I and its Ca...

Now in South Africa, the AfyaRekod Universal Patient Portal is empowering patients to take charge of their healthcare

12Jul

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Medicine, South Africa News, Startups, Tech

Now in South Africa, the AfyaRekod Universal Patient Portal is empowering patients to take charge of their healthcare

AfyaRekod has launched the fully automated Universal Patient Portal in South Africa and it is ready to change the face of patient care across the country, Africa, and the world. Using block-chain driven technology the Universal Patient Portal is a secure central, mobile platform where patients and the medical professionals treating them have real-time access to their health data and medical history, not only ensuring effective ongoing medical management but critical, timely information in an emergency. Initially developed and launched in Kenya, AfyaRekod is the brainchild of CEO John Kamara. An Adanian Lab start-up, AfyaRekod, was founded in 2019. Kamara saw first-hand how the lack of medical records and static data could lead to poor medical management when a friend died having rece...