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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
YSYS Founders Stories
YSYS Founders Stories at AfroTech Fest YSYS Founders Stories panel was held during the AfroTech Fest on 26 January 2018. AfroTech Fest was a two-day tech festival by and for black people of African and Caribbean heritage. The hosts were Carl Konadu @ckkonadu and Abiola Babarinde @abxola, who were excellent facilitators on both days. The […]
Startup Europe Tech Africa Road Trip
SEC2A Tech Africa Road Trip SEC2A Gala Launch Thursday 12th October was the Gala launch event before the Africa Road Trip events to bring together Africa and Europe’s tech ecosystems. This was the European Commission sponsored initiative, held at the Tate Modern, London and hosted by Gary Stewart – Director, Wayra UK. The event kicked […]
How to build your Tech Startup
Support for UK tech and creative startups LBAcademy held its Executive Launch on 27 September 2017. The theme “How to build your Tech Startup” highlighted the prime objective of the Academy to support UK tech and creative startups. The event was hosted by Ade Awokoya, Founder – LBAcademy, at the co-working space, The Bridge in […]
Our Fintech Hackathon challenge at AfricaTechDay
Team Kollet wins 2nd Prize The Team was supported by Ade Awokoya at the Hackathon and won 2nd Prize for their pitch on “Data Analytics-Customer Service” for Nigerian Banks. During the Hackathon we developed a wire-frame prototype for the “Predictive Behavioural Insight Platform”. Further to the hackathon, the team has taken action with formation of […]