Fintech accelerator DFS Lab has opened applications for its third startup bootcamp, which looks to identify and invest more than US$1 million in African startups. The event will be held in early December in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with the entrepreneurs with the most innovative solutions receiving up to US$50,000 in funding and six months… Read More »
SA fintech startup ThisIsMe has clinched joint top spot at the African Fintech Awards, with Easy Equities. It follows two days of intense pitching battles and an extensive voting process involving the public. The awards were hosted at the Finance Indaba held last week. ThisIsMe helps clients to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) and FICA legislation… Read More »
Eviation, a startup developing self-flying, electric passenger planes, was crowned the audience choice for the most promising startup at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ D. Live technology conference Tuesday evening. The Israel based startup is hoping to build a company it describes as ‘Uber meets Tesla in the sky’ using self-piloting, lightweight, aircrafts that can… Read More »
A Portland startup called Torch 3D said Tuesday it has raised $3.5 million to help fund its technology. Augmented reality superimposes images onto digital views of the real world for games, design and other applications. Virtual reality provides an immersive, digital alternative to the real world. Both are among the hottest fields in technology, with… Read More »
Genetic testing startup Prenetics, plans to expand into more Asian countries after raising a $40 million Series B led by Beyond Ventures and Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund. The round also includes capital from Yuantai Investment Partners, mFund and eGarden Ventures, and brings Prenetics’ total raised so far to $50 million. The capital will be… Read More »
Magic Leap, a well-funded and secretive startup, said on Tuesday it has raised US$502 million in a new capital funding round led by Temasek Holdings an investment firm owned by the government of Singapore. New investors in the latest series D funding also include EDBI, a Singapore-based global fund, Grupo Globo from Brazil, and Janus… Read More »
Steve “Woz” Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple II computer, announced on Friday the launch of his latest startup, Woz U. Called a “digital institute,” the Arizona-based institution hopes to provide a quick and affordable way for people to learn new skills applicable to the realm of computer science. These skills would… Read More »
A tech startup from Pakistan, doctHERs, has won the World Health Summit Startup Track 2017. For doctHERs, the first place at the 9th World Health Summit startup competition is a special achievement: “I am very glad and this is a true honor for Pakistan”, said Dr. Asher Hasan while speaking to Geo.tv. “This is a… Read More »
In January, Cisco bought app monitoring software company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, one day before it was expected to go public. Now, AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal is working on a new start-up called Harness.io, CNBC has learned. Bansal was AppDynamics’ CEO for almost eight years before being replaced by former Adobe executive David Wadhwani in… Read More »
Voting closes on Thursday for the Arabian Business StartUp People’s Choice Award for Entrepreneur of the Year 2017. The winner of Arabian Business StartUp People’s Choice Award is the only one chosen by the magazine readers. The nominees for the awards are: Zeynap Saka Founder of New Shifts Services, the business matches people seeking a… Read More »
