Umuntu Media says Africa’s time has come as it looks at the way we will communicate in future. The year 2011 could not have started any better for Umuntu Media as Umuntu this week announced ambitious plans to improve internet media in 19 African countries with eType handling the media sales. Africa’s time is now, [...]
Kenyans can now pay the school fees of their children with M_PESA using Pesapal
Today eVA Fund and Agosta Liko (CEO) reached an agreement for the investment of eVA Fund in his company PesaPal. PesaPal is a service that will help you to buy goods and services on the internet safely using your mobile money account. PesaPal verifies all merchants and ensures that goods and services sold are delivered [...]
Today eVA Fund reached an agreement with CEO Mark Mwongela for the investment of eVA Fund in Verviant. Verviant is a world-class information technology company, offering low cost offshore design en software services for web and mobile. Verviant has also developed mobile payment platform PesaPal.
Today eVA Fund finalized the participation in Kenyan based mobile marketing company Jumuika. Jumuika is a service that pays consumers each time they receive targeted SMS ads on their mobile phone. Jumuika started in Kenya, but also will be launched in Uganda and Tanzania.
eVA Fund and publisher Andrea Bohnstedt are announcing an investment deal of eVA Fund in Ratio Magazine. Andrea Bohnstedt has worked for Global Insight, one of the largest international country intelligence providers, for three years as Africa analyst, writing country backgrounds, news commentary, forecasts, and country risk analysis. During this time, she has also been [...]
The first eVA Fund investment is a fact: Explainer DC Ghana. Explainer DC is the leading web development company in Ghana and has established itself as the reliable provider of large-scale, complex internet solutions. The Explainer DC team of professionals has created professional web presences for their clients and they continue to introduce the benefits [...]
Vincent Kouwenhoven and Brian Hirman from the Netherlands have recently launched eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund): an investment fund for digital media and e-business companies in Africa. eVA Fund will first focus on investments in the sub-Saharan African countries.
Kouwenhoven is founder and owner of the Dutch venture capital firm eVentures Europe and Hirman recently resigned as CEO of Isobar Netherlands (Isobar is the world’s largest full service digital agency network) and is now founder and owner of Forventures, a Dutch incubator of digital business ideas.
