by Bill-elton Akoko | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized, Fintech News, Resources
As the leading grassroots entrepreneurship program in Silicon Mountain, Pitch Friday is an event powered by Mountain Hub that helps entrepreneurs and investors succeed. Founded in 2022 Pitch Friday began with three ideas – facilitating investments between...
by Bill-elton Akoko | Nov 17, 2022 | Fintech News, Resources
Mountain Hub recently won 4000 Euros from the AfriLabs Virtual Grant Series 8 amongst two other hubs in West and East Africa. This was an initiative of the AfriLabs Capacity Building Programme sponsored by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) through the...
by Bill-elton Akoko | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized, Fintech News, Resources
Tech is no longer the Next big thing; it is the big thing already. Cameroon occupies a strategic geographical position for technology innovation in Central and West Africa and one of it’s annual flagship tech event is the Silicon Mountain Conference. This...
by Bill-elton Akoko | Sep 5, 2022 | Fintech News, Resources
AfriLabs was founded in 2011 to build a community around rapidly emerging tech hubs―innovation spaces that serve as meeting points and communities for developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. With a goal to stimulate economic growth, it was in this light that...
by Bill-elton Akoko | Aug 30, 2022 | Fintech News
The Pan-African banking conglomerate with banking operations in over 36 African countries has launched the 5th edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and encourages African Fintech entrepreneurs to enter the competition. This year the Fintech Challenge offers...
by Bill-elton Akoko | Aug 15, 2022 | Fintech News
Over the years, Hackathons have become significant as a huge proportion of companies and venture capitalists see this activity as a way to quickly develop new software technologies and locate new areas of innovation for Funding. With the rise of a Fin-tech movement...