Browsing: Startups in East Africa

• Africa Startup League announced a Sh122.84 million innovation competition that will kick off in February 2023.
• The continental-wide contest is open for innovators, entrepreneurs, micro-enterprises, and early-stage start-ups to attain access to finance, as well as the much-needed expertise required to scale businesses.
• East African startups raised US$2.3 billion between 2019 and May 2022. The amount represents 23 per cent of the overall funds raised by African startups during the period.

Africa Startup League, a community-powered company builder for startups, has announced a Sh122.84 million innovation competition that will kick off in February 2023.

The Africa Startup League is a critical Humanity Node ecosystem infrastructure component and key decentralized gross domestic product of Africa (DGDPA) accelerant.

The continental-wide contest is open for innovators, entrepreneurs, micro-enterprises, and early-stage start-ups to attain access to finance, as well as the much-needed expertise required to scale businesses.

The model is a unique startup studio …

Education in Tanzania has been gaining crucial technological changes over the past decades. The government of Tanzania has acknowledged the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in stimulating effective learning in the modern era, via its frameworks—communicated in the Education and Training Policy of 1995, and the national ICT policy of 2016 that both embody education technology in their own manner.

In this context, Tanzania’s innovation landscape is getting better as more young people take the helm to create solutions. In this case—MyElimu and Mtabe apps, which are customized education technology (platforms) offering seamless learning materials to secondary students across Tanzania via mobile phones are gaining traction.

The communication landscape in Tanzania is growing, and numbers show this growth could turn to be a gold mine for innovative solutions such as MyElimu.

According to information from Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA), internet penetration moved up from 40 per cent in …

Modern technology could be the most pristine breakthrough the human race has ever achieved, as more noble solutions come to light each day proving that—decent forms of labour can be attained if the digital economy wages its fair share of war into the sector, and Tanzania is the exemplary figure in this labour-related case.

Huduma Smart is not an ordinary startup.  It is a young, female-led enterprise that trains domestic workers and provides a job market for them via a tailored website, where employers can recruit workers of their choice per qualifications they desired and acceptability of a worker. More importantly, the startup provides health insurance and contracts to workers, among other necessities, to make their jobs respectable, a global missing recipe in the labour section.

The domestic labour landscape

It has been a custom for most average families and most of the middle-income households to require services from housemaids, …