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.
Just over one-third of marketers plan to either buy a new CDP (21%) or replace an existing one (13%) this year, according to this Optimove survey. Unfortunately, it doesn’t report how many have a CDP already in place, which would put the other values in perspective. It does seem that CDPs are a relatively low priority: they rank sixth on the list of new systems and eighth on the list of systems to replace.