african-startups
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Cabo Verde Digital buys founders time to build
A monthly stipend, a borrowed desk, a route abroad. Cabo Verde Digital treats the making of a startup as a practical problem - and is taking the same approach to digital access across the islands.
iHUB Nairobi: The business of making luck
A foosball table could introduce two founders. Keeping the doors open required a business model. Inside the Nairobi hub that learned to put a price, a partner and a pilot behind a promising idea.
ALX Ventures Charges $5 to Test an Idea Before It Gets Expensive
For $5 a month, aspiring African founders can enter an eight-market training network. The real product is a sequence of tests that makes weak ideas fail cheaply - before prototypes, payroll and pitch decks make them costly.
Knife Capital starts with the exit
Visa, Uber Eats and Ticketmaster have bought businesses backed by Knife Capital. The South African investor is building its next chapter around a $50 million fund and a blunt question: who will want to own this company?
Ubulu Africa and the work before the pitch
A Lagos venture builder is tackling the less glamorous side of African innovation: choosing startups, preparing founders and training the people who help them grow. Its InnoX platform puts that work into software.
Harambeans Is Building a Network That Picks Up the Phone
The African founder alliance pairs small investment checks with relationships built to last. A test of that promise came when two members stopped trusting each other.
CcHUB Is Building the Parts a Startup Cannot Download
The Lagos-born innovation company has spent years assembling the people, capital and institutional connections behind African tech ventures. Its most useful lesson: a promising app still needs somewhere to go.
AfriLabs bets on the people behind the startups
A network of more than 500 innovation hubs is trying to make African entrepreneurship less lonely - and better financed. Its experience shows why the people running the support system need support of their own.
LaStartupStation wants your startup to land a purchase order
In Casablanca, Mehdi Alaoui’s accelerator brings young companies into the orbit of corporate buyers. Its next test: helping Moroccan education startups reach learners who are too often left out.
MountainHub Wants a Hand in Building Your Business
From five-minute pitches in Cameroon to a venture-building partnership with MTN, MountainHub is putting itself inside the startup process. Its bet: founders need help with the work that comes after the idea.