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Michael Soli, from Polymorph Labs Ghana, presents us his startup and his vision: create and highlight Ghanaian software solutions at a time when political leaders too often tend to import solutions from abroad. Polymorph Labs wants to change this way of thinking.

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While maternal and infant deaths have become a rampant plague in Nigeria, Uche Kenneth Udekwe decided to create Natal Cares in 2018, a social enterprise that leverages on the power of mobile technology and low cost innovation to combat infant and maternal mortality

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This post is the first part of a series of analysis called “Will the Cuban Revolution be digitalised?”, following StartupBRICS exploration of Cuba last August with our connector Brian O’Hagan.  Since the transition of leadership from Fidel to Raul in the middle of the 2000s, Cuba  has undergone a profound period of transformation. If the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro …

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By Eva Nean “African startups, you are officially free to go nuts! The more nuts you are, the better DraperDarkFlow will fund you ». The tone is set. For starters, DraperDarkFlow is a new early Venture Capital Fund that “invests in African entrepreneurs who can change the world”. Launched in Silicon Valley this year by Tim Draper and Toro Orero, DraperDarkFlow invests …

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Gregory Rockson, CEO of mPharma is building the largest pharmaceutical data platform for emerging markets. How is he doing it? By Eva Nean Disruption. Here is an instance where the beloved tech buzzword will not be used in vain. mPharma co-founded in 2013 by Ghanaian entrepreneur Gregory Rockson is laying the foundation to become the number one e-prescription network in emerging …

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“Startup entrepreneurship has a lot in common with what it takes to be an athlete on a playing field: excellence, competitiveness, persistence, speed, teamwork”  says Anita Huang, team captain of Taiwan Startup Stadium (TSS), the new startup cluster launched this May in Taipei. The initiative is supported by HeadStart Taiwan, a project driven by the Taiwanese Development Council to develop …

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By Eva Nean The Internet of Things is now a fixture of the tech industry. China is the global leader with 74 Million M2M Connections (GSMA report). This year, France launched La Cité de l’Objet Connecté (the Center of Connected Objects), Europe’s biggest center dedicated to Internet of Things. The United Arab Emirate region has its own initiative: Smart Dubai, …

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