Finance Archives - Innovation for Africa

Transfrom Africa seeks to create a continental single digital market

May 4, 2018 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

More than 4,000 delegates from 80 countries are expected to converge in Kigali on the 7th of May for the Transform Africa Summit 2018.The summit will bring together African leaders, private sector players, representatives of development partners that are active the ICT field, among others.Up to 22 H ...

Overstock.com purchase $2.5 million Common Stock In Elio Motors

April 24, 2018 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

An e-commerce retailer is injecting millions of dollars into a fledgling small-car startup in Phoenix.Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) is purchasing $2.5 million worth of common stock in Phoenix-based Elio Motors (OTC: ELIO) at $2.75 a share in a private placement. The deal was announced April 24.Elio i ...

Perkbox allows you to stretch your money further

April 19, 2018 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

There are lessons for any start-up in the success of Perkbox.The employee perks and engagement platform seem to have cracked the winning formula of providing a subscription-based product with mass market appeal.It has over 500,000 employees from 8,000 customers on its platform, made over £30 millio ...

Circular Economy

September 19, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

A circular economy is an attractive and viable alternative that businesses have already started exploring today. It is also restorative and regenerative by design, and aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value at all times. At times, a circular economy is an ...

Consumerism VS Innovation

September 15, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

We live in a day and age where marketing and advertising play a major role in influencing us into buying goods. Sometimes we really do need them but most of the time we really don’t. We have developed a culture of buying so much we don’t look to see if what we are buying is actually necessary. W ...

Mobile Money In Africa

July 25, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

Launched in 2007 on the 6th of march in Kenya under Safaricom, a mobile operator, M-PESA is a mobile phone system which allows a user to send and receive money without the hassle of having a bank account.The name “M-PESA” means mobile money as the M stands for mobile whilst Pesa is Swahili for m ...

Finance Innovation Summit

May 25, 2017 by Innovation for Africa - No Comments

African Innovator Round Table: Financial Innovation Summit: Advancing Financial Services Through Technolgy.This summit will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of technological issues that affect the development of Financial Services in Africa.Innovation has already transformed the ...

Transfrom Africa seeks to create a continental single digital market

Overstock.com purchase $2.5 million Common Stock In Elio Motors

Perkbox allows you to stretch your money further

Circular Economy

Consumerism VS Innovation

Mobile Money In Africa

Finance Innovation Summit

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