Waterhole — News & Posts
Perspectives on building and backing technology companies across Africa.
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Accelerator Summary and launching 2nd Cohort starting August 2013
We learnt a lot during the first accelerator class that began in November 2012 and concluded in March 2013 just before the Kenya elections…
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Graduating our first Accelerator class following Demo Day in Kampala, Uganda
On 24th June 2013, Savannah Fund graduated its first cohort of startups at a Demo Day in Kampala, Uganda on the eve of the…
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IISS: Emerging Africa Geo-Economics, Resources and the role of Technology and Innovation
Earlier this week, a group of African business and political leaders, academics, journalists and researchers met in the Gulf island nation of Bahrain for…
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Bitcoin Crypto-currency and the opportunity for a truly Pan-Africa money revolution
NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE: Imagine you are a freelance coder in Zimbabwe during the collapse of the financial banking system in the last…
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Africa Spotlight: Global Entrepreneurship Congress Report from Rio, Brazil
Last week over 1,500 delegates from 100+ countries involved in entrepreneurship ecosystem building descended on the lovely city of Rio De Janeiro for the 4th…
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Startup Marketing in Africa
This is a guest post by Agnes Sokol who spent a month assisting in putting together marketing plans for the 1st Savannah accelerator in…
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As smartphone wars heat up: Africa Techies beware of the App distraction to your business
“Why should I get the intel Yolo vs the Samsung Pocket”– asked a young man at the Safaricom Junction shop. “This phone is just…
