Eli Ben-Sasson – CEO & Co-Founder, StarkWare [📸SimonsInsitute] StarkWare, the $8 billion Israeli blockchain infrastructure giant, has announced a new $4 million venture fund dedicated to supporting blockchain startups across Africa. The fund will focus on early-stage companies building solutions on StarkNet, StarkWare’s Ethereum-based decentralised application platform. Targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups, the fund will provide grants of up to $150,000, with the potential for follow-on investments of up to $500,000 for promising projects. Startups in West, South, and East Africa will be prioritized, particularly those operating in regions grappling with high inflation, volatile exchange rates, or low financial inclusion.…
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Chris Maclay has announced that Jobtech Alliance (where he is a Program Director) is looking for a ‘born entrepreneur’, with experience working as an operator in the jobtech space. The Jobtech Alliance is an ecosystem-building initiative focused on fostering inclusive jobtech in Africa. Launched in late 2021 by Mercy Corps and BFA Global, it aims to support digital platforms that connect individuals to work opportunities, thereby enhancing livelihoods across the continent. His LinkedIn post reads: Who knows of an amazing Nigerian who wants to join our team at the Jobtech Alliance? 😍 We’re looking for someone to lead our work…
🎥Winich Inc. Nigerian AgriTech startup Winich Farms has introduced an innovative debit card program in partnership with Sterling Bank to empower smallholder farmers. This initiative provides farmers with digital wallets and debit cards, enabling them receive payments promptly and securely. By tracking transaction data, Winich helps farmers build creditworthiness, facilitating access to financial services such as loans and insurance. As of late 2024, the company had issued 25,000 debit cards and plans to expand this number to 195,000 in the coming years. In January 2025, Winich Farms activated over 500 debit cards for smallholder farmers in Benue State, further promoting…
Nnamdi Uba (Co-Founder & CEO, Sytemap) The “Scan and Reserve” feature by Sytemap is an interesting development. Designed to make land purchasing more convenient and secure – particularly in real estate markets with potential risks around property fraud or mismanagement – this tool allows users to explore plots virtually, select a preferred one, and reserve it from anywhere using satellite mapping technology. Sytemap allows users to explore plots virtually, select a preferred one, and reserve it from anywhere using satellite mapping technology Sytemap Co-Founder & CEO, Nnamdi Uba recently announced: We have started deploying “Scan and Reserve” in estates locations.On…
[🎥 Sports & Bytes] It appears the world is on the verge of a tech revolution, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealing how to create a GPT app in under four minutes, without requiring a single line of coding. Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI) This breakthrough marks a major tech shift as it simplifies AI app development, and empowers just about anyone to build and even sell their own AI-powered products and apps.The world is about to witness an explosion of new products and solo entrepreneurs in the coming years.
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (CEO & General Partner, Future Africa) ARM Labs Lagos Techstars, also known as Techstars Lagos, has shut down operations. This comes two years (and 24 investments) after it launched its accelerator program in Nigeria. It also announced the abrupt end of its third cohort program, which commenced in March 2024. Nigerian entrepreneur, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (CEO & General Partner, Future Africa) reacts: Sad news but another reason why Africa must come of age. We cannot continue to depend on foreign accelerator businesses who are here today and gone tomorrow after collecting millions of dollars from corporates, DFIs and foundations in…
Seated (L-R): Temitope Adeyemi (Co-Founder & CEO, Pay-U) in a recent meet-up with legendary Angel Investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and adviser to tech companies Harry ‘Tomi Davies to brainstorm 📸TemitopeA Imagine that you drive a NGN50,000,000 car from Ikeja to Victoria Island within 1 hour and you get to pay a premium of just NGN1,141 – instead of worrying about paying NGN2,500,000 as upfront annual premium, especially when you can’t afford the upfront cost. Or Imagine… that you drive a car valued at NGN10,000,000 from Lekki Phase 1 to Ikoyi – which is about 30-minute journey – and you pay NGN80…
🎥Paralympics With Paris 2024 drawing to a close, some of the Paralympic community say a few words of thanks to Paris and its people: ‘MERCI!’ [in different accents and languages 😊] What a spectacle: The 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony kicks off at Stade de France And for an unforgettable event that has marked a first gender-inclusive Olympics hosted by the beautiful city of Paris, the world says bravo to Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris); Tony Estanguet (President, Paris 2024 – Comité d’organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024); and Etienne Thobois (Director-General, Paris Organising Committee). Numeris Média is officially…
UNSTOPPABLE 🇳🇬. Folashade Oluwafemiayo beats her own power lifting world record on final day of Paralympic Games🎥@Paralympics Nigeria is unstoppable. On the final day of the 2024 Paris Paralympics, Folashade Oluwafemiayo has obliterated her own previous 165kg world record with an incredible 167kg lift, securing gold in the Women’s Over 86kg Para powerlifting category🏅 Nigeria’s medal haul now stands at a total of seven (see story on previous six wins: Paris2024: Good things do come to an end. Nigeria’s never-give-up trait earns it six medals as the Paralympics draw to a close 🙌]. Folashade Oluwafemiayo lifts Paralympic gold!After breaking both…
📸2024 Getty Images Despite no-one wanting Paris 2024 to come to an end, the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games will bring the curtain down on 12 days of intense sporting activity in France’s capital, on Sunday 8 September, starting at 20:30 local time. After nearly two weeks of competition and jaw-dropping feats of athleticism, the medal table tells a story of grit: So far, throughout the Paralympics’ 549 medal events, China tops the table in terms of gold medals (71) and total medals (163). After Great Britain (82 total, 35 golds), Team USA athletes have brought home 77 medals in all, including 27 golds.…