While the San Francisco Bay Area — including Silicon Valley — has become an unofficial mecca for all things tech, S.F. isn’t the only place where startups thrive. Several other American cities are rising to compete with the Bay, offering budding companies room to play outside the shadows of giants like Google, Apple and Facebook, [...]
Silicon Valley-style Accelerator Heading To East Africa
June 25, 2012 | Posted by
A new fund has been started in East Africa to provide seed capital for promising web and mobile entrepreneurs. Called the Savannah Fund, the project has collected $10 million US to create a Silicon Valley-style accelerator for East African countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, East Africa. Chosen start-ups will get about [...]
