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Cavmont Bank partners with BongoHive – Supporting Zambian Businesses Even Further

Cavmont Bank and BongoHive sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) and announce partnership to improve financial awareness and mentorship among local entrepreneurs and MSMEs. At the signing ceremony, held on Wednesday 27th January, Cavmont Bank and BongoHive committed to working together to improve the delivery of a seamless and robust mentorship & coaching programme for entrepreneurs… Read more »

BONGOHIVE SIGNS MoU WITH MTN ZAMBIA – Development of Apps an Ally for telecommunications.

BongoHive Technology and Innovation Hub have today signed a memorandum of understanding with MTN Zambia. MTN Zambia seeks to provide support to Application and software developers in Zambia through a partnership with Bongo hive, the first technology and innovation hub in Zambia built on an entrepreneurship hub concept. The support is aimed at stimulating interest… Read more »

BongoHive ‘Launch’ kicks off

Startups are often defined as lean businesses that can scale, reaching new markets easily far and wide. While this might be the case, it doesn’t mean that all startups manage to scale in the way they should. As Zambia’s hub for entrepreneurs and startups, Bongohive was created to support early stage entrepreneurs to found and… Read more »

Botswana to host Pan-Africa’s most celebrated innovation event of the year – Innovation Prize for Africa!

The prestigious African award marks its 5 year milestone boasting the “Made in Africa” spirit Gaborone, Botswana 20 January, 2016 — The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) in a joint collaborative effort with the Government of Botswana (GoB) represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) today announced that… Read more »

BongoHive Job Opportunity: Accounting & Finance Lead

If the terms game-changer, thought-leader and startup-guru ring true of you then this is the ultimate job for you. We are searching for someone with strong accounting and finance knowledge who’s experienced in scaling startups. Background BongoHive is Zambia’s first technology and innovation hub. Since 2011, we’ve been organising issue specific workshops and seminars, running… Read more »

Total Launches K390, 000 Startup Competition for Zambian Entrepreneurs

Total Zambia this month celebrates its 65th anniversary in Zambia and launches a competition to encourage social and economic development through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship continues to create social and economic benefits for communities across Zambia and supporting startups will encourage more youth participation in economic growth. Speaking in Lusaka at the launch of the K390 000… Read more »

A Talk with Joni Catalano-Sherman | October 08 at 6PM

BongoHive is honoured to host Joni Catalano-Sherman, PhD. Joni has extensive experience working in innovation. Her career path has led her through the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to Johnson & Johnson in capacities that include Senior Director, Emerging Technologies at Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science & Technology and Senior Director, New Ventures at… Read more »

Kukula Capital and eVa Fund invest $500,000 in Dot Com Zambia

Kukula Capital (“Kukula”), a leading Zambian venture capital investor, and eVentures Africa Fund (“eVA”), a leading Dutch venture capital fund specializing in E-commerce in Africa, are pleased to announce the signing of a transaction with Dot Com Zambia, a growing e-commerce company headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia. Kukula and eVA have jointly agreed to initially invest… Read more »