YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. Mawuna Koutonin was born in a small village in Togo, West Africa to a father of 36 children. Peer-To-Peer Referral Network.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

Recent projects include scholarships for cancer survivors, efforts to fight malaria, and raising funds to buy a truck for a village in Africa. 275,000 software engineers work together on this platform to deliver results to client companies world-wide. Plus the actor Edward Norton is the force behind this social-crowd venture.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Johnni Kjelsgaard is one of the world’s most enthusiastic proponents of Africa’s entrepreneurial potential. Joseph Mucheru East Africa Lead at Google.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Techstars IoT (NYC).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Autonomous Logistics Solutions: Focus on specific use cases for robotrucks and drones, addressing technical, regulatory, and partnership challenges, in regions like the US and Africa. They want to fund startups that enable generalist software developers to manage these teams of agents.

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