Founded in 2009, Pesapal provides a simple, safe and reliable way for individuals and businesses to make and accept payments in Africa. Pesapal is this morning pleased to announce the opening of a new office in Arusha, Tanzania. The office located at PPF Plaza along Old Moshi road is meant to cater to a growing demand for payment services by …

AfriLabs; the largest pan-African network of 100 technology and innovation centers across 30 African countries is happy to announce that Kenya Airways is an ‘Airline Partner’ of the 2018 AfriLabs Annual Gathering. Kenya Airways will extend to the participants a special discount on all published Business and Economy Class return air fares on their direct services. The discount is applicable …

Microsoft has, through its Airband Grant Fund, invested an undisclosed amount in three startups to provide internet access and cloud-enabled solutions to underserved African communities. The three startup are: Mesh Power and ColdHubs which hail from Rwanda and Nigeria, respectively, and Agsol — which is registered in Hong Kong and Australia — has operations in Kenya. The three were part of eight startups from the US, Africa and …

Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech today announced the Top 10 African Innovators selected to participate in the globally renowned, multi-corporate backed accelerator program for 2018. Post an intensive 3-month global scouting tour, across 15 countries, and inclusive of 19 FastTrack events and 220 face-to-face startup engagements, the SBC AfriTech team received 1,004 applications from 73 countries in total, attracting double the applications …

Village Enterprise has raised $3.5m of working capital to provide first-time entrepreneurs who live in extreme poverty with seed capital, training and mentoring to start more than 4,600 small sustainable businesses in rural Kenya and Uganda by 2020. Over 760 million people still live in extreme poverty, over half of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa despite decades of development work and billions of dollars expended on the continent …