Fatma Smaoura (FIFA Secretary General) The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the winners of the 2023 AWIEF Awards during a glamorous awards ceremony that took place on November 10, 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda. A total of eight inspirational and outstanding African women entrepreneurs – out of the 24 powerful female founders and entrepreneurs selected this September as top finalists – were recognised, as follows: Young Entrepreneur Award: Salamba Diene (CEO, Biosene Sarl, Senegal) Tech Entrepreneur Award: Kidist Tesfaye (Founder & CEO, YeneHealth, Ethiopia) Agri Entrepreneur Award: Nonopa Tenza (Founder & MD, Kevinot Farming, South Africa) Energy…
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Last month, Gbite Oduneye (Founding Partner at ODBI) met up with his friend, Dr. Kingsley I. Ndoh (Founder & CEO, Hurone AI), and discussions veered into the remarkable strides that Hurone AI was making to transform cancer care – especially as the disease remains a critical global health challenge that still does not equally reach underrepresented populations, such as those those in Africa. (L-R): Dr. Kingsleu Ndoh (Founder, Hurone AI); Gbite Oduneye (Founding Partner @ ODBA) 📸Gbite Citing Hurone AI as an antidote to bridging the healthcare gap, Oduneye says: “Enter Hurone AI, a groundbreaking MedTech startup by Dr. Kingsley…
Toby Ayeni, popularly known as MissTechy on Instagram, recently shared how she opened a foreign bank account with which she received funds in Pounds Sterling. Tobi Ayeni 📸 X (formerly known as Twitter) She says: “Here is one of the ways you can open a foreign account in multiple currencies and use it to receive money from different parts of the world. Has anyone tried @leatherbackfinance before? What do you think about it ? By the way, you can use my code 1AE7D7C2 when signing up”. *This is not an advert or recommendation
Leaders across industries – from healthcare giants such as Johnson & Johnson, to tech innovators like Siemens Healthineers, and audiences at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center – have all witnessed the transformational impact of Maureen’s dedication to helping individuals and organisations break through barriers and achieve peak performance. CEO at The Mindsight Academy, Maureen Chiana is a neuro-coach who guides leaders, teams, and organisations toward transformative change through an innovative blend of NeuroLeadership, NeuroCoaching, and Emotional Intelligence. Her speaking engagements are carefully curated experiences designed to reveal how the nuances of the human brain can dramatically enhance leadership strategy. The outcome…
🎥 @puffpuffministry Puff Puff Ministry, a company run by a group of British-Nigerian sisters, has taken puff puff (a street food snack popular across the African continent) right into Google! Founded by a group of sisters, the company was invited to teach a Puff Puff Masterclass at Google headquarters in London. The legendary puff puss is a ‘small chops’ platter (similar to a doughnut), and a huge party favourite in the life of any Nigerian gathering or celebration. According to the Founders: “Most of our childhood was spent running from our living room to mum’s bakery at the back of…
From Boardroom (Director, Technical Advisor at Amazon) to executive DJ booth, Georgia Akuwudike’s stage name is P.I.P (Primus Inter Pares (PIP), which means First Amongst Equals. This Christmas, she flies from Manchester to Nigeria, asking Nigerians to come experience her superstar DJ skills: “Gentle Reminder that I’m also a DJ, and this Christmas I’ll be moving from Boardroom to DJ Booth. “NIGERIA 🇳🇬🗣️, your girl is coming home, and I can’t wait for you to experience the Groove – Where Brains meets Beats, where achievements meet the dance floor, and where I’ll be honored to show you that I’m a…
Dimeji Sofowora Tito Ovia Adegoke Olubusi Helium Health Co-founders: Dimeji Sofowora, Tito Ovia and Adegoke Olubusi Here are the top 10 Nigerian startups, ranked by the amount of funds raised year-to-date in 2023 (source: Nairametrics Deal Book): Termii ($3.65 million) – In June, Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) startup, Termii, raised $3.65 million to expand its product offerings. The new raise brought the startup’s total funding to $5.05 million having first raised $1.4 million in seed funding in January 2021. Termii’s CEO, Gbolade Emmanuel said the funds were not needed for operational activities but rather to power the company’s expansion initiatives,…
Winners of the inaugural South African Startup and Investor Awards, an initiative of Startup Club ZA, have been announced. Selected from 60 finalists and through a combination of public voting and adjudication by a 25-person judging committee, the 12 winners are: Zoie Health Founders (L-R): Dr. Nonhlanhla Sitole and Thato Schermer AI & Big Data: Melio.ai – Founded in 2019 by Merelda Wu and Harry Lee, Melio specialises in developing and deploying machine learning solutions and their Highwind marketplace lets data professionals find, benchmark and buy existing machine learning models; Biotech: Maltento – Founded in 2018 by Dean Smorenburg, Maltento aims to overcome…
Moome from Tunisia Emergency Response Africa from Nigeria Dataleum Ltd from Nigeria Coffee Resurrect from Ethiopia Zofi Cash from Uganda BasiGo from Kenya Momint from South Africa Developers in Vouge from Ghana Tech Buzz Hub from Uganda Awabah from Nigeria Zuri Health from Kenya Click images for captions 📸GSA Africa The Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa – a tech innovation competition scouting all five African regions and 55 countries – recently announced a total of 16 winners across different categories of the startup ecosystem: AGRI TECH: Moome from Tunisia, aims to make smallholder dairy farmers more profitable, traceable and sustainable…
📸 HauteTime The quiet luxury trend is very much alive. The latest category to embrace understated designs — after handbags, ready-to-wear and, most recently, sneakers — is the luxury watch industry. It has been an exciting year of timepiece auctions, but stealing the auction show mid-2023 is the ‘Imperial Patek Philippe,’ which was sold for HK$52 million (US$6.6 million) by Phillips Hong Kong — making history as the most expensive timepiece to sell at auction so far, in 2023. In just six minutes of bidding over the phone, the timepiece which was previously owned by the Last Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.…