Predictive digital twin pioneer Akselos has announced the completion of a US$10mn financing round led by Innogy Ventures, with Shell Ventures as Co-Investor
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Orange invests in South African payment service Yoco
Orange Digital Ventures Africa, the Orange Group’s venture capital investment fund for Africa, has made a second investment in one of the continent’s most promising fintech companies, the South African Yoco
China Telecom Global selects Teraco for interconnection hub
China Telecom (Africa and the Middle East) Limited (CTMEA), the Middle East and Africa subsidiary of China Telecom Global (CTG), has announced to establish an interconnection network and telecommunications hub to support growing traffic demands at Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s first vendor-neutral data centre
Kambio and Jibrel to leverage blockchain infrastructure for SMEs
Kambio Ventures is building a next-generation, blockchain-enabled capital markets platform for asset-backed security tokens for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
‘Africa need to develop a policy response to the digital economy’
Dr Nimrod Zalk, industrial development advisor in the office of the director-general of the Department of Trade and Industry, has delivered the keynote address at a Workshop on ‘Digital Transformation in Africa: Leveraging the Promise and Addressing New Challenges’