Applications are now open for Google’s 2025 Europe, Middle East and Africa summer Internship programme, offering several growth opportunities – from Engineering & Technology to Business Marketing and Sales. All interns are a part of Google: involved in solving problems and helping create products and services used by billions of users around the world. Google invites you to come on board to help them build for everyone.To browse available roles, and to apply for an internship position, click here. Application deadline is October 25, 2024.
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Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) has shared that his company just completed a second successful load test of its Duma ground drone, pulling a 2.1-ton car while carrying an 80kg human being – all fully powered by ArtemisOS, a TerraHaptix proprietary C2 software.Nathan wryly adds: Another engineer was kind enough to volunteer his car :)#technology #ai Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) TerraHaptix – Africa’s largest drone manufacturer – is a robotics company building low-cost, unmanned systems for core industries. They refer to themselves as being on a mission to accelerate automation in emerging markets. The company recently opened a…
Dr. Abiodun Adereni (Founder & CEO, HelpMum Africa) HelpMum Africa – promoters of maternal and infant healthcare in Africa – were recently announced as one of the winners of the Meta LIama Innovation grant award, during the Concordia Summit that took place in New York during the UN General Assembly (#UNGA79). The company’s win is tied to its developing an innovative chatbot service that delivers accurate and timely information on vaccination and immunisation. Leveraging Llama 3’s advanced language processing capabilities, HelpMum Africa created Vax-Llamamodel — an AI-driven, open-source model designed to provide reliable vaccination information. This open source model can be integrated into…
Rethread Africa founders: Charles Oyamo, Noreen Mwancha, and Vincent Momanyi Rethread Africa, an incredible African startup founded by students from the University of Nairobi, continue to stir up conversations as it upcycles sugarcane waste into high-performance, bio-based materials that offer sustainable alternatives to synthetic fibres. Their groundbreaking solution is disrupting the textile industry while advancing sustainability. The innovative team – Charles Oyamo, Noreen Mwancha, and Vincent Momanyi – boasts a biodegradable textile fabric made from agricultural waste, particularly sugarcane. The resulting bio-based polyester may be an effective substitute for traditional polyester as it requires fewer resources to make and can…
Empowering yuth through Agriculture: IfeOluwa Oyeyemi on the job Top LinkedIn post by Sustainable Food Champion | Fruit Farming Expert | Agrodealer Specialist, IfeOluwa Oyeyemi (Founder, FarmHelp Agribusiness): From a young age, I always had a deep desire to help others achieve their dreams while working towards mine. Little did I know that agriculture would be the avenue through which this passion would flourish.As a teenager, my father entrusted us with small parcels of land for petty farming. I chose to plant vegetables, selling them outside our home to earn money, all while dreaming of studying medicine. However, fate had…
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Founder, Future Africa) Reposted from LinkedIn x Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: If you are African or a black person from anywhere in the world and you want to build something venture scale I think you need to move to Lagos. Lagos is the largest city in Africa and a 150 billion dollar economy with over 20 million people in a space that’s smaller than New York City. It’s basically New York for black people. From a density perspective you can’t find a better market. It is fully run by very proud black people and a largely responsive government.Most importantly unlike…
Paris-by-Foot: Tour guides, Camille and David Paris Off Road (Guided tours) are pleased to announce the launch of their services during the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. Toeing an unusual yet interesting angle, Paris Off Road is determined to unveil the city’s hidden treasures, away from traditional tourist circuits – on foot! The company offers seven walking tours in French and in English: The scandalous Palais Royal, Montmartre village, the trendy Marais, the historical Latin Quarter, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Bucolic Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 📸 ParisOffRoad Says the company: Our exclusive tours cater to those wishing to explore Paris and discover…
Olympics.com The stage is set for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, with around 10,500 athletes set to take part, 8.6 million tickets sold, and people coming together all around the world to experience the unique spirit of the Olympic Games Have fun with the Olympic mascots this summer by downloading the official Paris 2024 Olympics app! Plus, it’s the best way to find the schedule for the Olympics and stay up to date with results, teams and athletes. Whether in Paris, or at home, take a look at the Olympic digital innovations and offerings that have been designed to give people…
Presenting Tyms TAutomate for the first time at KPMG Nigeria, recently: (M): Chineye Ochem (Co-founder & COO at Tyms) Built for CFOs, accountants, bookkeepers and business owners, Tyms® is an incredible AI-powered finance and accounting automation software that makes it possible for small businesses and startup finance teams to automate their entire business financial accounting processes – from bookkeeping, financial statements preparation, advanced inventory, payables, receivables, budgeting, bank sync and reconciliation. Describing the product capabilities in detail, Chineye Ochem (Co-founder & COO at Tyms) says: We built Tyms TAutomate specifically for Accounting firms and Accountants who manage the books of…
Sharing her experience as an MIT Founders Fellow 2022: Bolanle Austen-Peters (Founder, Terra Kulture) 🎥BolanleAustenPeters The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is currently inviting applications for its 2024-25 Foundry Fellowship program, which is specifically tailored to distinguished entrepreneurs who are dedicated to driving the rapid expansion and integration of innovation and entrepreneurial networks throughout the African continent. This fellowship program at MIT is crafted with the intention of empowering ethical and visionary leaders who are eager to initiate and lead transformative changes and foster inclusive economic growth within various sectors in Africa. Bolanle Austen-Peters: “I graduated as a Fellow of…