Winning at the MTN App Challenge, for some of us (me), became an earned entrance into a world we had no idea we belonged.
Remember that concept that lecturers emphasized (which felt more like they were reminding themselves than their listeners) at every gathering, “We’re shaping our students/youth to be...
Yoza Tech today announced the launch of their award winning application, Yoza laundry service in Kampala.
The laundry service app was the winner of MTN Uganda’s 1st ever MTN App Challenge back in June 2015. Yoza is a Luganda and Runyankore dialect which translates to ‘Wash’.
From that time till now,...
Meet Andela, a startup that pays kids in Africa to learn how to code, then gives them high-paying jobs at Fortune 500 companies.
Africa has the largest pool of untapped tech talent in the world, according to Jeremy Johnson.
The 31-year old says that for two reasons:
Human brilliance is evenly distributed around...
A team of five students of Makerere University have come up with an app, Mama-Ope, that will help diagnose Pneumonia earlier in young children.
Born out of the Big Ideas Innovations global online competition, the team was part of two groups from Makerere University that were representatives from Africa, competing against more than...
Ghanaian startup Farmerline, which is expanding to East Africa and provides agricultural information to farmers, and Rwanda’s Atikus Insurance, which expands access to credit by increasing the capacity of MSME lenders via reimagined insurance and technology risk solutions have been named winners of the Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture...
East African accelerator SPRING has announced the 18 participants in its inaugural programme in the region, selecting promising entrepreneurs with products or services that could transform the lives of adolescent girls.
SPRING is offering startups the chance to participate in a nine-month programme, with chosen companies receiving an average of...
Kenyan startup CladLight is to launch its Smart Jackets into the market by the end of this year, looking to improve road safety through wearable technology.
CladLight was founded in November 2013, and has raised US$41,000 from the Nailab – where it was incubated – and a crowdfunding campaign.
CladLight’s Smart...
After an intense evaluation process by a panel involving over 15 investors, PIVOT East is happy to announce the top 25 exceptional startups that will participate in PIVOT East 2015.
The finalists, 5 from each category were selected from the 50 semifinalists announced two weeks ago. The finalists from across the...
In 2011, the telecom sector in Uganda was awash with promotions promising subscribers almost free calls. As a result, call prices dropped by over 70% and a number of experts warned that these (price wars) were unsustainable and would ultimately hurt the sector.
Cue to that, barely two years later,...
Now there’s a wearable device that helps reduce the frequency of farting-induced awkwardness. CH4 (the chemical formula for methane) is a device that comes from a New York-based team, which is running a Kickstarter campaign to bring its idea to the masses.
Simply put, CH4 is a square-shaped device that...
