Only 20% of funded African tech startups had a female founder in 2022
African tech’s gender problem is only getting worse, with just 20.2% of 633 funded ventures in 2022 having a female founder, down from 21.5% in 2021.
African tech’s gender problem is only getting worse, with just 20.2% of 633 funded ventures in 2022 having a female founder, down from 21.5% in 2021.
Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned.
Amid the growing data localisation demand in India, the country is likely to witness 4,900-5,000 MW of capacity with an investment of Rs1.5 lakh crore in the next six years. The key triggers for digital explosion in India are the increasing internet and mobile penetration, the government’s thrust on e-governance/ digital India, adoption of new technologies (cloud computing, IoT and 5G), growing user base for social media, gaming, e-commerce, and OTT platforms.
One of the normal stages in the maturation of a new technology is appearance of industry-specific applications. AI agent-powered end-to-end marketing campaigns have reached that stage remarkably quickly. Case in point: Birdeye has released an agentic marketing platform for its base of multi-location brand marketers.