Browsing: Google for Startups Accelerator Africa

The grant recipients in this year’s cohort, 50% of whom are women-owned enterprises, are from Kenya, Botswana, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda, Nigeria, and South Africa. Senegal, and Uganda.

They specialise in sectors such as fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, logistics, agtech, education, hospitality and smart cities.

Although there are many opportunities in the vast continent of Africa, there is a lack of variety in the flow of venture capital funding.

“We expect that Black Founders Fund Program would be capable of bridging the gap of disproportionate funding between ex-pat businesses over local and black-led enterprises”, Folarin Aiyegbusi, Head of Startup Ecosystem Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), stated.…

Applicants are required to have a start-up business in its early stages, have black founders or diverse founding teams, and have their headquarters located somewhere on the African continent.

In addition to being beneficial to the African Community, the start-ups should be capable of developing technological solutions for both the African market and the global market, and they should have both the potential to grow and the potential to create jobs.

To submit an application, potential applicants need to go to the website where they will be prompted to provide their email address.…

• Google has unveiled the list of successful applicants of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 7 and they include Fleetsimplify, HydroIQ and Sukhiba
• The startups are drawn from seven African countries, namely Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, with Cote D’Ivoire joining for the first time
• Over the next three months, the startups will work with Google mentors and facilitators learning best practices on a range of topics, including Artificial Intelligence and Big Data 

Google has unveiled the list of successful applicants of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 7.

In a statement, the American technology company said the selected startups are developing solutions in healthcare, education, fleet management, logistics automation and recruiting.

The seventh class includes three Kenyan startups, namely Fleetsimplify, HydroIQ and Sukhiba.

The startups are drawn from seven African countries, namely Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, with Cote D’Ivoire joining …