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Founded in 2010 by Somali entrepreneur Ismail Ahmed, WorldRemit -- a London-based tech startup providing low-cost international money transfers -- made headlines a few weeks ago when it raised US$100-million in series B funding.
Having personally experienced the frustrations of using traditional money transfer agents, WorldRemit's founder Ahmed set out to create a service that would use technology to improve the sending process, enhance compliance and reduce the costs for the customer.
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Many Nigerian startups have set up operations Yaba, the district of Lagos most frequently compared Silicon Valley and home to tech companies like Africa Internet Group (owners of Jumia, Kaymu and other booming startups). But at least one startup is operating elsewhere. And the founders of git-card SureGifts say they're doing just fine without easy access to accelerators and innovation hubs.
I sat with the three co-founders -- -- Adeoye Ojo, Babafemi Lawal and Olaoluwa Samuel-Biyi -- at their operational ... 
Impact Beyond Innovation is an article series that features startups from Africa putting social good at the forefront of their business models.
Large parts of Africa remain off the electricity grid, meaning people are forced to use alternative ways of generating energy. These alternatives, as necessary as they are, are not always safe. The most commonly used alternative form of light is kerosene which is, according to the World Bank, the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.
Growing up ... 
Ludwick Marishane, the brain behind the so-called Waterless Bath, was one of the opening keynotes at The Accenture Innovation Conference. Dubbed the DryBath, his product is literally a type of gel that people can use to clean themselves. No water required. Marishane took the audience through his journey of creating an interesting product through the process of reverse innovation -- a concept he hopes would inspire more young South African entrepreneurs.
“Growing up I wanted to be a scientist,” he says. ... 
There are different types of women in business:
The mompreneur who works from home and balances the demands of a growing business with that of their household, kids and husband.
The solopreneur who works from home, refusing to hire and manage staff - they work with a slew of freelancers or consult or freelance themselves.
The entrepreneur who has staff and is trying to grow a business from strength-to-strength with or without the challenges of a family thrown on top of things.
Read more ... 
This week, Lagos will host its third annual Social Media Week. Last year, it featured a Battlefield startup competition that was won by educational portal PrepClass. The startup was also named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Africa for 2014 by FastCompany.
A few weeks ago, meanwhile, one of Nigeria’s major telecoms companies Airtel announced the winners of its Catapult A Startup competition. One of them is Pass.ng, an online exams preparatory platform that helps students prepare for ... 
Co-founder of OpenTenders Madoda Khuzwayo estimates that there are as much as R1.3-trillion worth of tenders per being procured by government entities every year. However staggering and wonderful that figure may sound, a honey pot of this magnitude tends not to go untainted. Things like fraud and negligence are common issues when it comes to government or big corporates putting out contracts in South Africa.
"If you have half a trillion of work that government is procuring, you need to make ... 
As an American tech journalist who transplanted herself to Cape Town a year and a half ago, I get asked one question all the time: how do we compare to Silicon Valley?
Now that I’ve travelled to Africa’s main tech hubs, interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs, tech execs, and investors and founded my own startup, CodeX, to train 100 000 coders in the next decade, I’m going to come out and say it.
There is no comparison. So stop making it. But before ... 
So you might never have given birth to a baby or a business, and if that’s the case then you’re going to find yourself either terrified or saying “easy peasy, what’s the big deal?”
If you have given birth to either, then you will definitely understand the pain and pleasures associated with being an entrepreneur and or being a parent. 
Hooked onto Africa’s strong growth, the continent has over the past few years been seeing a record high of foreign direct investment, peaking at US$56.3-billion in 2013. Yet, studies still show that medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are struggling to get their share of the pie.
Freshly launched in Kenya, a relatively new startup called Solvesting has geared up to serve an estimated US$850 000-billion untapped credit market that exists in emerging markets today.
How is it planning to do this? Well, Solvesting introduces ... 
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