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Cameroonian agri-tech relies on insects to produce consumer products

The company says it uses bees at the heart of the food chain in order to provide people with sustainable consumer products that are 100% natural.
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Dec 18, 2024

Nigeria's OkHi accelerates push to boost financial inclusion

OkHi intends to on-board large banks and fintechs within the next six months as it ramps up its attempts to be a significant driver of financial inclusion across Africa.
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Dec 6, 2024

AfricArena Summit brought together 100 African start-ups

As the summit came to a close on Wednesday, nine winners from over 40 pitching start-ups were named Africa's most noticeable tech start-ups.
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Founders, VCs gather in Cape Town at AfricArena Summit

The organisers say the event aims to connect capital to tech founders and is focused on being a deal flow platform rather than just an event.
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Tech can solve 80% of Africa’s problems, says French minister

Elisabeth Moreno believes Africans are capable of developing solutions that previously didn’t exist and can benefit not only the continent, but the entire world.
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Nov 29, 2024

Cape Town gets ready to host AfricArena Grand Summit

This year's Grand Summit will include more than 50 start-ups from 31 African countries, including regional champions from AfricArena's pre-summit events.
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Oct 11, 2024

Tunisia plans to host a deep tech, AI summit next week

The Summit will bring together AI, deep tech start-ups and investors for an event targeted at improving investment processes across Africa.
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Sep 16, 2024

Video: African investor wants continent to expand climate-tech solutions

ITWeb Africa editor, Samuel Mungadze spoke to Melvyn Lubega, technology entrepreneur and investor, in Nairobi about the importance of amplifying Africa's voice in global climate-tech conversations.
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Sep 6, 2024

Six African start-ups win climate-tech awards

The winning teams, who attended this week’s two-day AfricArena Nairobi Climate Tech Summit, pitched their scalable companies to investors.
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Sep 3, 2024

Africa offers untapped climate-tech opportunity

The continent can be an important case study on how to grow and consume in balance with the climate, it will require innovation and collaboration.
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Apr 29, 2024

Five African startups excel at the AfricArena summit

Winners automatically secure a spot to compete at the grande finale, which will take place in Cape Town, in December.
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Apr 24, 2024

International investors are hot on Africa’s potential

A summit of venture capitalists, technologists and start-up founders heard that as global investment slows international investors are increasingly looking to African start-ups for growth.