Companies

5 woman entrepreneur-owned brands that revolutionized Nigeria’s Beauty Industry 0
- Companies, Entrepreneurs, Lifestyle
- December 23, 2015
Makeup and beauty business could hardly be termed as an industry some 15 years years ago in Nigeria and most of Africa. The terrain was new and sparsely populated with a lot of skepticism surrounding it. Well, what do you know! This is no longer the case and the industry even has its own ‘big
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It’s goodbye to 24-hr delivery as Padi.ng partners stores around you for 90 min delivery 0
- Companies
- December 17, 2015
Consumer internet company, Iconway is launching Padi.ng, a hyper-local delivery service that allows people order in products from neighbourhood stores and have them delivered to their doorstep within 90 minutes. Padi features a uniquely designed app which makes shopping for everyday items such as groceries, fruits & vegetables, baby products, mobile and computer accessories, office
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Travelbeta.com raises $2 million seed fund from Nigerian investors 1
- Companies
- November 20, 2015
Travelbeta.com, Nigeria’s newest online travel agency has raised a $2,000,000 seed fund barely six weeks after its launch on October 1st. Travelbeta&Tours Limited, the controlling company of the flight booking platform, began operating as a physical agency in July 2015 before switching online in October 2015 and has generated $522,000 in revenues since. “We have
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Innovative “click funding” Egyptian startup wins 25,000 euros at the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize 0
- Companies
- November 19, 2015
Orange announced the winners of the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town. For the fifth year in a row, the Orange Group is recognizing three innovative projects that are set to stimulate development in Africa. More than 600 candidates responded to the call for projects, which
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Kevin Tucker Partners Silvertree to reacquire PriceCheck from Naspers 0
- Companies
- November 5, 2015
Silvertree Internet Holdings and Kevin Tucker have acquired PriceCheck, a leading online price comparison platform, from global media giant, Naspers, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, signed this week, sees Tucker reacquire the company he started in 2006, having sold it to Naspers in 2010. Now in its ninth year, PriceCheck is Africa’s largest price
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Hollop! Hollop! Online travel booking just got better with Travelbeta.com 0
- Companies
- October 29, 2015
Online travel booking company Travelbeta.com has officially launched and aims to convert millions of Nigeria’s offline booking customers to online customers. In the last twelve months, Nigeria has recorded approximately 15 million travel bookings. International flights accounted for nine million of those bookings and only a meagre 300,000 of that total may have been booked
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