Early-stage funding has proven a problematic gap within Africa’s startup space, but developments in 2020 went some way to addressing that. The funding gap in the early stage of a startup’s life is sizeable, and poses all sorts of challenges. At best estimates,...
Applications have opened for the seventh edition of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), which will provide startups with training, mentorship and US$5,000 in funding. The programme, run by the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), is a 10-year, US$100 million...
When the COVID-19 crisis hit Africa earlier this year, and countries went into varying degrees of lockdown, the prognosis for the continent’s early-stage startup ecosystem was not good. Funding in particular was meant to take a serious hit, and there were fears for...
Back at the start of the year, Disrupt Africa unveiled its 12 African startups to watch in 2020. How did we get on with our predictions? Egyptian trucking marketplace Trella We said: “The team that told Disrupt Africa they are taking growth “step-by-step”, and not...
Individual startup ecosystems across the continent, be they in South Africa, Nigeria or Kenya, may steal a lot of the limelight, but the African tech startup sector as a whole is growing at pace. Here are Disrupt Africa’s five biggest developments of the last 12...
