Startups

Nairobi Garage today announces the launch of the Club Space, a membership-only space featuring on-demand office facilities, and an exclusive networking lounge to promote connections within the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The Club Space introduces an all-new concept to the Kenyan market, offering an ultra-flexible, affordable workspace... Read More

Africa’s largest co-working space Nairobi Garage today announces the launch of Nairobi Garage Business Services, giving innovative young member companies unprecedented access to market leading business firms. For the first time in Kenya, Nairobi Garage Business Services makes the country’s top professional service providers accessible to startups and... Read More

Just clocking in on three years of operation, Andela is steadily expanding its talent acceleration programs across Africa. The global engineering organization, that looks out for the most talented software developers on the continent, is launching in Uganda in order to expand the access to... Read More

Building on a dream tech startup is no more a hard task to achieve. Technology costs have gone down, and investors are more willing to make the push for promising innovations. The World Bank Group, in its global fight against poverty, has launched XL Africa... Read More

The developers of Noga, a 3D maze android game have boldly laid claim to it being the first of it's kind in Uganda and rightly so. Developed by Tamithi, one of Uganda's foremost animation startups, Noga is a remarkably stable 3D mobile game. The storyline... Read More

Uber launched in Uganda in June 2016, Kampala taking the honours of being the 462nd city they ventured into. But five months later, reports indicate that Uber is facing some hardships with its contracted drivers in the face of increased competition from other sector players. Since... Read More

Meet Lugendo.com (translated Journey/travel in the local dialect Luganda) a Ugandan one-stop-shop for all your regional and international flights within and from East Africa. Lugendo enables you find affordable flights from Uganda to the World. Owned by Simba Travelcare Limited, one of Uganda’s leading and reputable corporate... Read More

A quiet revolution is taking place in the beautiful mountainous landscape of Rwanda and this has nothing to do with any form of civil unrest as Western media would have us believe whenever Africa is mentioned in a byline. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) in... Read More

Branch International, a Nairobi/San Francisco-based mobile micro-finance Startup has secured a $9.2 million round of funding from Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The funds will boost Branch's expansion across the East African region and source local talent for its operations. Branch is a FinTech profit-driven company providing credit,... Read More