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Last year was record-breaking for African startups. The Big Deal tracks funding rounds from $100,000 and above from startups operating in Africa with their headquarters on the continent or HQ ...
African startups also increased from 10 in the winter batch to 15 this time around, a record for African startups in a single YC cohort. YC S20 had 198 startups, so that's a 90% increase from last ...
In Africa, Y Combinator is known to be a major backer of most of the continent's well-known startups. Unlike last year where Y Combinator held its Demo Day, both winter and summer in two days, it ...
Harry Tomi Davies (born June 9, 1955) is a Nigerian British investor, speaker, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and advisor to technology companies. [1] [2] [3] He is the chief executive officer of TVCLabs, a technology business accelerator based in Lagos, and the founding president of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), a network of individuals and organisations who invest in and ...
Theo Baloyi is a South African entrepreneur, and the founder and chief executive officer of Bathu Shoes. [1] He launched his eponymous shoe brand in 2015, having previously served as a Senior Associate at PwC in Dubai. [2] [3] He was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019. [4] [5] In 2021, he won GQ's Business Leader of the Year. [6] [7]
This list comprises the largest companies currently in Africa by revenue as of 2022, excluding the finance sector, according to the ranking of the largest 500 companies in Africa by Jeune Afrique. In 2022, the largest company in Africa was Sonatrach with revenue of US$77 billion.
Elite members of Africa's startup landscape talk to us about the challenges and opportunities in one of the newest (and most exciting) emerging markets for tech entrepreneurship.
The Silicon Cape Initiative is a private sector community movement that was founded by two South African high-tech entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Justin Stanford. [1] [2] Both being entrepreneurs and angel investors in the information and communication technologies start-up sector in South Africa, they observed the unique confluence of circumstances emerging in their home country and in ...