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YSYS Startups pitch at Afrobytes London

Afrobytes Event Series London 2018 YSYS Startups pitched and told stories at Afrobytes Series London with a focus on African tech products and contributions to the tech ecosystem development.  YSYS Startups supported Afrobytes as an ecosytem partner to build bridges between the African Tech Industry. The Afrobytes Series London event held on Thursday 6th December […]

How to unlock Blockchain and AI in Africa

How to unlock Blockchain and AI in Africa Afrobytes Event Series London 2018 Panel discussions on how to unlock Blockchain and AI in Africa was held by Afrobytes in London to envisage how to tackle the challenges. The Afrobytes Series London event held on Thursday 6th December evening at Wayra UK,  London. It was held […]

Where’s the BAME in Tech? – Part 2

Where’s the BAME in Tech? – Part 2 This event held on Wednesday 28th November evening at TfL Palestra, Southwark, London. Organised by Dionne Condor-Farrell, Senior Developer at Transport for London (TfL). The purpose was to bring together people in the Tech industry to have an open discussion and highlight the achievements of BAME people […]

Startup 54 Africa Tech Founders

create innovative tech businesses Startup54 by Foundervine brought together young professionals and aspiring entrepreneurs to form teams, build prototypes and create innovative tech businesses to solve some of Africa’s problems. It was held (54 hours!) over the weekend of 9-11 November and hosted by Pivotal Software. Day 1 started Friday evening with Keynote address on […]

Impact Investment in Ghana

Investing in Ghana-related Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Investing in Ghana-related Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Star100 recently launched a new ad hoc series looking at diaspora investing, to consider the make-up of the SME ecosystem in Ghana and how the diaspora might invest in it for financial return and social impact. The event had a panel […]

Diversity In Tech with Black@ Facebook

Black History Month The Black@ Facebook London community organised a special version of their monthly #ThirstyThursday event, to focus on Diversity in Tech, at Facebook office, 1 Rathbone Square at 6pm on Thursday October 18th. #BlackHistoryMonth Welcome AddressAdwoa Baah explained the background of Black@ Facebook and gave the 4 pillars “Support.Educate.Grow.Celebrate’ with a presentation of […]

African Startups @CampusLondon

African Startups @CampusLondon Background: Google for Entrepreneurs previously supported 14 African Startups on a Tour of Tech Cities Across Europe [the PitchDrive tour] with the aim to raise €20M in funding from investors. The PitchDrive tour started in London on 14th of August 2017, and the selected startups visited Google’s Campus London, TQ Amsterdam, Factory Berlin […]

Rethinking Africa Infrastructure investment deals

Bnkability Lunchtime talk Bnkability recently held a Lunchtime talk on “Rethinking how investment deals are done in Africa using NLP”. This was hosted by the Department of Computer Science (Employer Talks), on Wednesday 1 August. Speaker Background: Emem Rita Usanga Emem is the Founder @bnkabilityAFR and also User Experience (UX) Design Consultant working with startups […]

Venture Capital Funding in Africa

Venture Capital Funding in Africa TLA Africa recently organised a Panel discussion on  Venture Capital Funding in Africa. The event was third in the @TLAAfricaSocial series, and was held at Huckletree on 13 June, during London Tech Week. INTRODUCTIONS The event was Organised and coordinated by TLA Africa co-Leads, Akosua Annobil and Emem Usanga. Emem introduced the event […]

UK Tech Founders Forum

How to innovate and grow your business This Business innovation workshop course is designed for UK Tech founders and entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to innovate and grow their startups. The founders forum will help you take away key tools of design thinking, and grow your business by creating new customer segments. It also […]