Business & founders stories across Africa
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The cities, hubs and countries where African companies are built.
No one has an authoritative total of African startups. Funding trackers do measure how much money reaches them, and 2025 saw a rebound after two years…
South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria top the 2025 StartupBlink ranking for Africa. Here is what each market offers a fintech or software founder.
Kigali Innovation City aims to combine universities, startups and large technology firms on a master-planned site in Rwanda’s capital.
M-Pesa, mobile phones, iHub and a planned technology city, Konza, helped earn Kenya the nickname Silicon Savannah.
Yaba’s universities, fibre connectivity and the Co-Creation Hub helped make it Lagos’s technology cluster, nicknamed “Yabacon Valley”.
“Silicon Cape” borrows from Silicon Valley, with “Cape” for the region. The nickname started as a networking initiative in 2009 and stuck to Cape Town and…
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