Tag: Innovation

• Networking and Dating App, BumBle to Invest in Women Founders

  

  Bumble — a tech company founded with equality in mind, with an 85% female workforce — wants to be part of the solution by launching Bumble Fund to help women largely ignored by the venture capital establishment. Bumble Fund will focus on early-stage investments, primarily in businesses founded and led by women of color and those…

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  August 16, 2018

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  Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, BeautyCon, Bumble, Bumble Bizz, Bumble Fund, business, business support, challenge, change, Cleo Capital, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, equality, Female Founders Fund, female workforce, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Lagos, leadership, Mahmee, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, networking platform, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, Sofia Los Angeles, solution, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, tech, technology, The AWP Network, Venture Capital, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women of color, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Attend: Investment Showcase for Agribusinesses in Africa

  

  The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) are working with partners across Africa to offer brownfield projects seeking capital investments, the chance to make a showcase presentation to an audience of global investors and financiers. The CRU Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness 2018 Conference is a comprehensive three-day event, centred on how partnership, investment and innovation can boost…

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  August 14, 2018

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  Africa, African Fertilizer, African youths, agribusiness, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, capital, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, investor, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The African Women Power Network, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Apply: 2018 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

  Propelled by Nokia Bell Labs and NGP Capital, Nokia is seeking innovators to help solve business challenges by way of industrial IoT. This is a multi-round competition, culminating in a presentation to an executive-level jury at the Nokia Bell Labs Headquarters. Finalists selected by the jury earn funding, co-innovation and joint business opportunities from Nokia,…

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  August 14, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Innovators, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, NGP Capital, Nigeria, Nokia, Nokia Bell Labs, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The African Women Power Network, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• African Startup Winning! Mines Secures $13M Series A to Grow Digital Credit Platform for Emerging Markets

  

  Mines started out as a research project on high performance artificial intelligence led by Kunle Olukotun, a professor of computer engineering at Stanford University. It came to life after a chance meeting with Ekechi Nwokah, a computer scientist working on big data projects at Amazon Web Services, after which they teamed up to direct the…

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  August 13, 2018

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  Adia Sowho, Afghanistan, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, artificial intelligence, awards, AWP Network, Bank of Industry, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, credit, credit risk, culture, customers, Data, datasets, development, education, Emerging Markets, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, financial access, fintech startup, First Ally Capital, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mines, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, NYCA partners, Persistent Capital, program, progress, research project, Sahara Investments, Singularity Investments, small business, solutions, South Africa, South America, SouthEast Asia, strategy, support, sustainability, talent acquisition, technology, The AWP Network, The Rise Fund, TPG Growth, Velocity Capital, Western technology Investments, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, X/Seed Capital, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Vantage GreenX Fund Managers Provides Major Funding for Renewable Energy Projects in South Africa

    Vantage GreenX Fund Managers through its second renewable energy fund, Vantage GreenX Note II, has provided R2.05bn of funding to a combination of six (6) solar and wind energy projects with a combined capacity of 433MW. All the projects form part of Round 4 of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (“REIPP”)…

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  August 13, 2018

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  Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, BioTherm Energy, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, debt fund, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, procurement, program, progress, Renewable Energy, renewable energy fund, small business, solar energy, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Vantage GreenX Fund Managers, Vantage GreenX Note II, wind energy, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• African Daily Voice Launches News Agency

  Based in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, African Daily Voice – a multinational company specializing in content, and the media, has a newsroom in Casablanca (Morocco) and offers multilingual services (French, English, Arabic) has launched a pan-African news agency. Driven by a long-term vision for Africa, the founders and investors of the new media group rely exclusively on…

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  August 13, 2018

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  Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Africa, African youths, Algeria, Algiers, Antananarivo, Arabic, awards, AWP Network, Bangui, business, business support, Cameroon, Casablanca, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, content, Dakar, development, Douala, DRC, education, English, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, french, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Investors, Ivory Coast, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, leadership, Madagascar, Malabo, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, Morocco, my voice matters, New Media, Nigeria, program, progress, Senegal, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The African Women Power Network, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Need Funding for Your Business? Apply for the Bank of Industry Loan

  

  LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited has been appointed by the Bank of Industry (BOI) as a Business Development Service Provider (BDSP) to potential Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria. This serves as a notice to inform eligible candidates/MSMEs who might be interested in accessing loans from the Bank of Industry of opportunities to access such through…

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  August 10, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Bank of Industry, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, LCM, leadership, Loftyinc Allied Partners, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, MINC, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Omojuwa Small Business Support Fund, program, progress, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, TEEP, The AWP Network, The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Join the WAAW Foundation SheHacksAfrica (FREE) Coding Bootcamp

  

  Join the WAAW Foundation to advance STEM Education for African girls by attending a four (4) week immersive coding bootcamp. Want to learn how to create your own web and mobile applications? or even learn about cutting-edge data analysis? The WAAW Foundation training workshop will give you the know-how to get started, boost your employability skills and productivity…

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  August 10, 2018

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  Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWELE Academy, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Engineering, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, She Hacks Africa, SheHacksAfrica, small business, software engineering, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, technology leadership, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Introducing the 9 Female-Led Startups Accepted for the GreenHouse Lab Accelerator Program in Lagos

  

    Venture Garden Group and GreenHouse Capital have launched GreenHouse Lab, a female-focused tech accelerator program and Africa’s first “Powered by Google” accelerator. GreenHouse Lab was founded by GreenHouse Capital – a venture capital firm based in Lagos and is “Powered by Google” – the only accelerator program in Africa with this distinction. After going through…

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  August 8, 2018

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  Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, Allpro, AMPZ. tv, awards, AWP Network, Bankly, BitMama, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Google Accelerator, GreenHouse Capital, GreenHouse Lab, growth, idea, Ikeja, Innovation, Inspiration, Kozzi Homes, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nicademia, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, Social Lender, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, tech accelerator, technology, The AWP Network, Venture Garden Group, Versus, Vibranium, Vibranium Valley, Vibranium Valley Ikeja, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Xigma, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Finalists Announced for the MIT (Zambezi) Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion

  

  The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation just announced the finalists of the 2018 edition of the Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prestigious competition, awarding a total of $200,000 in prizes, was established in 2015 to discover Africa’s most…

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  August 8, 2018

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  Africa, Africa strategy, African tech startup, African youths, Apollo Agriculture, awards, AWP Network, Bidhaa Sasa, business, business bootcamp, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, egatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FarmDrive, Farmerline, financial inclusion, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, LanteOTC, leadership, Legatum, marketing, Mary Olushoga, MasterCard Foundation, MaTontine, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, OZE, program, progress, RecyclePoints, Senegal, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tulaa, Wala, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambezi Prize, Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion