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10 March 2016
A new company in Kenya is turning all kinds of waste into energy, saving both money and the environment. The new system is...
28 January 2016
Through affordable access to clinically-valid hearing tests, hearScreen aims to improve the lives of the 1.2 billion people who...
28 January 2016
Eyram Tawia and Wesley Kirinya—two friends brought together by their passion for innovation, creativity, and change—founded Leti...
28 January 2016
m:lab East Africa is a consortium of four organizations (eMobilis, World Wide Web Foundation, University of Nairobi, and iHub)...
28 January 2016
The informal sector generates approximately 60 percent of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, informal businesses miss out on a...
7 March 2018
Since its launch in 2015, Sendy has quickly grown into one of Africa’s top start-ups to watch and garnered attention from several...
14 March 2018
Few green technology entrepreneurs are more passionate than Scheed Cole of Jamaica. His recycling and construction business has...
21 November 2016
This week, four of the Caribbean’s top mobile entrepreneurs are traveling to Slush, a leading technology conference...
24 January 2017
The Women Innovators Network Caribbean (WINC) — a cornerstone initiative of the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the...
24 August 2017
Farming is a tough business. Growing up on a rural Kenyan farm, Samuel Rigu saw firsthand how the acidity of the expensive,...