Featured Entrepreneurs

22 May 2017
Afroes began as a small start-up in South Africa with a mission to “gamify” Africa’s 21st-century learning needs. The digital...

7 June 2017
If you’ve ever been a student, you might know the feeling of trying to break into an industry without any contacts or access to...

10 March 2016
In Kenya, a new law requires people use solar power if they are heating large amounts of water. A Kenyan company is helping...

12 December 2016
While East African tech entrepreneurs from countries such as Kenya and Rwanda may have captured the attention of the media and...

7 August 2017
High up in the Himalayas, where yak have roamed the mountainsides for centuries, generation after generation of Nepalese have...

25 December 2016
In late November, four of the Caribbean’s top mobile entrepreneurs traveled to Slush, a leading technology conference held...

9 September 2016
Four women from Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and Tanzania speak about their experiences at early-stage digital and agribusiness...

20 December 2013
Peldge51, a new mobile startup supported by the infoDev’s Mobile Innovation Program, is empowering Nigeria’s youth through a...

21 July 2016
If he hadn’t claimed that abandoned computer he found while doing construction work, Dwayne Campbell would never have left his...

5 October 2017
Prakash Maharjan’s family had been selling ice cream for over four decades, but unhappy with doing “business as usual,” he had...