Africa’s Most Promising Companies

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Hannah Kirkpatrick introduces the work of Syntek Global, a company providing an innovative new fuel treatment for engines to Africa and empowering local individuals to become entrepreneurs. Syntek Global is responsible for the exciting new engine treatment product known as Xtreme Fuel Treatment [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- The power of the internet was made evident during the Arab Spring in North Africa last year. Rachid Dahbi founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of social polling company Averty speaks to Ventures Africa about the company’s pursuant ambitions to empower people to make their voices heard. Averty was born out of the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In today’s Christmas edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Herman and Lucy Bigham – co-founders of social enterprise Tosheka Textiles – speak to Ventures Africa about the benefits of implementing a creative new business to address environmental problems while empowering the economically challenged. Tosheka Textiles is a green textiles company, which focuses [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - After a wonderful year for businesses across Africa, an euphoria of greater success is what every entrepreneur, CEO and businessman carries into 2013. Ventures Africa has been reporting on African entrepreneurs and businesses throughout 2012, and in this piece we have identified the Top 5 Best Companies in Africa. This list comprises [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Ventures Africa speaks to Johnson Dunmoye Chief Executive Officer of Websoft, a Nigerian company dedicated to providing web, mobile and enterprise solutions. As undergraduates studying at the prestigious University of Ibadan, the Websoft founders began to play with the idea of setting up a [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In today’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Ventures Africa meets the creator of Dream Mobile. Having first started work on building a smartphone from his university dormitory, Reza Handley-Namavar speaks about his new smartphones specifically designed for Africa. The idea to build a bespoke smartphone for Africa was born two years [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies we meet Youngsoul Synergy and Creations – a team dedicated to causing a tech revolution in Nigeria’s education sector. Omole Akinbiyi introduces us to Youngsoul’s latest product, 360jobtest, which promotes and supports the young job seeking population of the West African country. The [...]

This story was featured in Ventures Africa magazine’s October/November Edition….   VENTURES AFRICA – According to oral tradition, when the Bafokeng or “people of the dew” first settled in 1450, the valley in which they did so experienced heavy overnight dew, holding the promise that the land would be fertile and that, in turn, the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s issue of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, co-founder of Nairobi’s first Bikram Yoga studio, Emma Day, tells Ventures Africa about the trials and triumphs of bringing her passion to Africa in a business context. The first Bikram Yoga studio in Nairobi, Day’s enterprise is innovative on the Kenyan market while [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In this week’s edition of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies, Abiola Olaniran Elijah introduces African gaming-app company Gamsole, a vibrant young company bringing the real African experience to the world through its fun and innovative games. While a number of other entities – including Google, Apple, and Windows – also develop and provide online [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In a new feature series, each Wednesday I will be profiling one of “Africa’s Most Innovative Companies”. In today’s edition, in an exclusive interview with Ventures Africa, CEO Stuart Forrest introduces Triggerfish – Africa’s answer to Pixar. As prevalence of animation films in global cinema began to increase – with individual animated [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In a new feature series launching today, each Wednesday I will be profiling one of “Africa’s Most Innovative Companies”. In today’s inaugural edition, in an exclusive interview with Ventures Africa, Co-founder Marc Sevitz tells readers about the South African hit that is TaxTim. Frustrated by the complexities of filing tax returns, two [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Ecobank Transnational Incorporated has been named African Bank of the Year in this year’s African Banker’s awards, fending off competition from six other nominees to win the highly coveted prize. The Group CEO, Arnold Ekpe, was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.   The annual awards, which reward outstanding talent and [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – A social entrepreneur is person that recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to solve that problem. Tal Dehtiar, a Canadian born entrepreneur, is such a person. The problem that Tal stumbled upon was the lack of quality products manufactured in Africa. There are a number of reasons manufactures don’t make [...]

Wale Tinubu has consistently reiterated his ambition to build Africa’s first oil major. Is it time to start taking him seriously? VENTURES AFRICA – Tinubu’s company, Oando PLC, is fast attaining multinational status and has successfully cemented its position as Nigeria’s foremost-integrated energy service provider. Already, the $2 billion (Market capitalization) company has tentacles [...]