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VC4A Venture Showcase alumni raise $180 million, applications for the 2021 program now open

VC4A Venture Showcase, an exclusive program of choice for Africa-focused early-stage investors and hand-picked startups looking to raise their Seed and Series A rounds.

MainOne, West Africa’s Leading Carrier-neutral data center provider to unveil data center in Appolonia City, Accra

MainOne, the leading provider of connectivity, cloud and data center solutions in West Africa is set to launch the Appolonia Data Center of its subsidiary, MDXi.

UK Nigeria TechHub announces the graduation of 10 startups from the iNOVO Accelerator Programme

Designed to empower 10 early-stage Nigerian startups that are solving challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, in January 2021, the UK-Nigeria Tech Hublaunched it’s iNOVO Accelerator Programme for early stage startups building innovative solutions to tackle the challenges caused by COVID-19 across the Education, Agriculture and Health sector in Nigeria.

After doing N1.4 trillion in Agency banking transactions in May, TeamApt wants to “do more” for its users.

In May, the value increased to ₦1.4 trillion ($3.5 bn) with 68 million transactions in volume, and between April 2020 and April 2021, the total value of transactions processed has gone up to $16 billion.

67% of talent began contemplating their exit less than 6 months before they left – Venture for Africa

Venture for Africa launches Africa Tech Talent Retention Report, evaluating reasons behind increasing rates of employee churn among startups

How an ISP restricts you from accessing a website (Case Study: Twitter)

There are three ways an ISP can restrict access to content: Deep Packet Inspection, DNS Filtering, and IP Address Filtering

Gokada launches Super App as it crosses US$100 million in annualized transaction value

The Super App launch comes as Gokada crosses >US$100 million in annualized transaction value, having completed >1 million food delivery and eCommerce orders on behalf of over 30,000 merchants in the last 12 months alone.

TalentQL launches Pipeline—an upskilling training to build world-class African engineers

Pipeline by TalentQL is focused on training and upskilling mid-level software engineers across the continent to Senior Software Engineers

Jobberman partners NYSC to train 120,000 Youth Corpers in soft skills

Jobberman's partnership with the Nigerian Youth service Corps (NYSC) will let them equip 120,000 Youth Corpers with soft skills.

Dream VC launches a training program for aspiring African investors

Dream VC wants to provide a launchpad that will help aspiring African investors to kickstart their journey into venture funding from 0 to 100.

What Is the Future of Marketing Technology?

Like every other industry, marketing cannot escape the winds of technological advancement. This makes it important to ask, what is the future of marketing technology?

Flutterwave partners with Amole to facilitate remittances into Ethiopia

The partnership will allow over 8M Ethiopian Diaspora to send money instantly through Amole, to Amole Wallet.