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5 Kenyan start-ups to benefit from the Ninja Accelerator program Shares The Ninja Accelerator in Kenya has selected 5 high-potential Kenyan ventures for its first cohort. The accelerator program is powered by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in partnership with Double Feather Partners (DFP), Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support (DTVS), Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory (DTFA) and GrowthAfrica. The program will also offer a blend of local, Japanese, and international mentoring, expertise, coaching, and investor relations. All this will be customized to meet the needs of each ...

Finding, attracting, and retaining top talent is a big challenge for tech startups in Africa. In the early years of Sokowatch, an e-commerce platform for informal retailers in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda, founder and CEO Daniel Yu wanted to find a way around this. A software developer originally from California, he understood the tech ecosystem in Silicon Valley, where he says talented people frequently leave big companies to work for small startups, with employee stock ownership plans serving as a major draw. “How do we get people to leave jobs at Safaricom or at other big or mul...

Westpac bets big on economic recovery Save Share Westpac Banking Corporation has delivered a massive vote of confidence in the national recovery by promising to pay shareholders $2 billion in dividends, invest up to $4 billion over three years and release funds set aside to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The bank has also upgraded its key economic forecasts for growth, unemployment and residential property prices used to model the fallout from bad debts, allowing it to release $372 million of its buffer, lifting its profit and supporting the reinstatement of the interim dividend. Westpac CE...

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega Share this article On Friday, April 16, the TechCabal Live conversation had e-commerce in Africa as its focus. E-commerce is always an interesting topic but it is made doubly interesting by the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and social distancing have made shopping online more popular than before. In fact, during the lockdown, I bought groceries online for the first time ever.  I have always associated shopping online with big-ticket items so that was a welcome change. Away from my personal experience, there was perhaps no better person to have the e-commerce in Africa...

Sokowatch Named as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies For 2021 e-Commerce firm, Sokowatch has been named in Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2021. 1 minute read Sokowatch is serving the neglected informal retail market that sells over $850 billion of basic goods to African consumers every year. (COURTESY PHOTO/Sokowatch) Sokowatch, the innovative e-commerce platform that supplies and finances mom-and-pop stores across East Africa, has today been named in Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative ...