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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation. It is not surprising that the countries with low unemployment rates have adopted programs encouraging continuous education, industry diversification, and skills development.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account.

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MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty

Up and Running

While in recent years, the rise of microloans and microcredit programs have certainly done some good, there are new ideas cropping up about ways to create sustainable change using education, business planning skills, and technology. As Beresford notes, “There is no success in this world with out involving some one else.”

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs. Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. Many entrepreneurs cannot get to Silicon Valley because of Visa or immigration issues and many startups who don’t get onto prestigious programs like Ycombinator or Techstars are choosing Startup Chile as an alternative.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. ObjectiveMarketer offers an integrated platform for businesses to create, execute and optimize powerful multi-channel social media marketing programs. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. Web Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — ObjectiveMarketer.