AWP Network

Attend: Investment Showcase for Agribusinesses in Africa

The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) are working with partners across Africa to offer brownfield projects seeking capital investments, the chance to make a showcase presentation to an audience of global investors and financiers. The CRU Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness 2018 Conference is a comprehensive three-day event, centred on how partnership, …

Apply: 2018 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

Propelled by Nokia Bell Labs and NGP Capital, Nokia is seeking innovators to help solve business challenges by way of industrial IoT. This is a multi-round competition, culminating in a presentation to an executive-level jury at the Nokia Bell Labs Headquarters. Finalists selected by the jury earn funding, co-innovation and …

African Startup Winning! Mines Secures $13M Series A to Grow Digital Credit Platform for Emerging Markets

Mines started out as a research project on high performance artificial intelligence led by Kunle Olukotun, a professor of computer engineering at Stanford University. It came to life after a chance meeting with Ekechi Nwokah, a computer scientist working on big data projects at Amazon Web Services, after which they …

Vantage GreenX Fund Managers Provides Major Funding for Renewable Energy Projects in South Africa

Vantage GreenX Fund Managers through its second renewable energy fund, Vantage GreenX Note II, has provided R2.05bn of funding to a combination of six (6) solar and wind energy projects with a combined capacity of 433MW. All the projects form part of Round 4 of the South African Renewable …

African Daily Voice Launches News Agency

Based in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, African Daily Voice – a multinational company specializing in content, and the media, has a newsroom in Casablanca (Morocco) and offers multilingual services (French, English, Arabic) has launched a pan-African news agency. Driven by a long-term vision for Africa, the founders and investors of the new …

Need Funding for Your Business? Apply for the Bank of Industry Loan

LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited has been appointed by the Bank of Industry (BOI) as a Business Development Service Provider (BDSP) to potential Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria. This serves as a notice to inform eligible candidates/MSMEs who might be interested in accessing loans from the Bank of Industry of …

Join the WAAW Foundation SheHacksAfrica (FREE) Coding Bootcamp

Join the WAAW Foundation to advance STEM Education for African girls by attending a four (4) week immersive coding bootcamp. Want to learn how to create your own web and mobile applications? or even learn about cutting-edge data analysis? The WAAW Foundation training workshop will give you the know-how to get started, boost …

Introducing the 9 Female-Led Startups Accepted for the GreenHouse Lab Accelerator Program in Lagos

Venture Garden Group and GreenHouse Capital have launched GreenHouse Lab, a female-focused tech accelerator program and Africa’s first “Powered by Google” accelerator. GreenHouse Lab was founded by GreenHouse Capital – a venture capital firm based in Lagos and is “Powered by Google” – the only accelerator program in Africa with …

Finalists Announced for the MIT (Zambezi) Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation just announced the finalists of the 2018 edition of the Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prestigious competition, awarding a total of $200,000 in prizes, was established in …

Attend: Property Summit for Real Estate Investors and Developers in Senegal

The Francoreal Property Investment Summit will offer a platform for the region and continent’s premier real estate investors and developers to gauge opportunities in one of the world’s fastest growing zones – known colloquially as Francophone West and Central Africa. This forum will provide a platform for local, regional and international delegates to …

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