500 Startups, one of the most
renowned accelerator programmes in the world, has increasingly opened up to African startups in recent years, with Kenya's CardPlanet — now PayKind — and Egypt's ElWafeyat making it into batch 11, and South Africa's SweepSouth and Ghana's Kudobuzz making it into batch 14.
500 Startups, one of the most
renowned accelerator programmes in the world, has increasingly opened up to African startups in recent years, with Kenya's CardPlanet — now
Not exact matches
It remains to be seen whether the
renowned accelerator will further increase its activities in Africa, or whether they will take the advice of Sandheep Ramluckan, managing director (MD) of Cape Town - based
programme StartUp90, who says the Y Combinator approach does not work for African startups.