Ed Note
Hellurr! February is about halfway done; are you smashing your goals? I know you are. You’re doing amazing.
News
The newest team member at The Beta Collective, a global community for tech entrepreneurs and business people all over Africa; is an AI personality named Zubi. In their Instagram post about the first AI member of their team, they noted that Zubi was,
“...designed to share our exciting and upcoming event: “African Startups: A Platform for the Future” With all the talk of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Dalle, Midjourney, etc. we thought it apt to showcase what AI can do for African startups.”
Interesting times!
Go, Google!
Google maps, one of Google’s fantastic products is launching new omnipresent-like features and as someone who gets lost ridiculously easily, this is super exciting! You can virtually hover around buildings, find entrances and exits and even see what places look like at different times of the day! How cool is that?
You get funding! Everybody gets funding!
Adeola Ayoola & Umar Faruq Akinwunmi of Famasi, a Nigerian healthcare startup have secured (undisclosed) pre-seed funding to continue building the company. Congratulations Famasi!
Pade, a tech company that provides and simplifies HR processes across Africa; also just closed its pre-seed funding of $500k! Um, yes, give it up!
Co-founder of Black Code Collective, Taylor Pointdexter was recently promoted to Engineering Manager at Spotify! Congratulations to her!
If you’ve been on Twitter lately, then you probably know all the craziness that’s been happening. This time, there are limits on the number of tweets you can put out, and an extension of the characters in a tweet. Yes, subscribers of Twitter Blue can now make tweets of up to 4000 characters. Get ready to read full-on blog posts on a micro-blogging site. Yikes.
Something to think about?
She’s got a point.
Something hilarious😂
In case you missed it
Web3 Ladies is hosting an online seminar for those who have a knack for writing. Find details here, girlies!
Uncover, a skincare brand was launched in Nigeria last month. Read our articles about this innovative brand here and here.
Opportunities
Brass is hiring a brand designer!
Digital Vision, East Africa is hiring a back-end developer.
Fully funded ALX tech programs here.
She Code Africa wants to collaborate with writers. Details here!
Ingressive for Good is giving out scholarships on Data Science and Data Analysis!
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