Nigerian medical startup 54gene has secured a $4.5 million seed funding barely 7 months after it launched. The sum was raised from investors some of which include YCombinator, Fifty Years, Better Ventures, KdT Ventures, Hack VC and Techammer.
The Ugandan ICT ministry has revealed that the government will provide innovation fund to help launch young entrepreneurs into the technology sector.
Nairobi-based technology seed fund and accelerator, Savannah Fund has announced its 4th accelerator class of four.
Projects that potential applicants will submit are required (among other things) to focus on finding sustainable solutions for relevant bottleneck or opportunity.
Teraco, provider of resilient vendor neutral data environments and Internet exchange point (IXP), has just increased the size of its medium term funding by securing R400m investment facility from Barclays Africa to construct a new data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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