eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) is the first venture capital firm investing in African SME’s active in digital media. Broadband and Mobile Internet Access in Africa is showing tremendous growth, enabling Africans to get connected to the world. African SME’s are rapidly developing localized applications, content, platforms and solutions enabling over a billion Africans to use the web for communication, business, e-learning, news, transactions.
Our mission: To capture the vast potential of digital media in sub-Saharan Africa, thus bridging the so-called ‘digital divide’ and in doing so, generating attractive financial returns for our investors.
Umuntu Media is a venture that has recently made the funding leap by securing investment from eVA Fund. They are now launching platforms in twelve African countries. We had a chance to talk with the entrepreneur behind this venture, Johan Nel. He offers some insight into his business as they work to become one of [...]
Johan Nel, CEO of Umuntu Media, talks about how he got started as an entrepreneur, the launch of portals across Africa, the Mimiboard concept, the use of Mimibucks and the partnerships he wants to forge with media owners.
Primedia Online is providing a comprehensive content solution to Umuntu Media’s African portals across the technology, lifestyle and entertainment news areas. Umuntu Media, based in Cape Town, has recently added two new portals to its stable: iZimbabwe.co.zw and iBotswana.co.bw were launched in November. The launch of the local lifestyle portals in Zimbabwe and Botswana will [...]
Umuntu Media has launched the next version of the iZambia lifestyle portal, in the next step to deliver up to the minute local content that is immediately relevant to the needs of Zambians. iZambia.co.zm was launched in January 2011 and quickly grew to attract a significant following in the country. iZambia was the first in [...]
Umuntu Media has launched it’s new corporate website. Read more about Umuntu Media’s simple mission: to deliver relevant local content on world class platforms across Africa: www.umuntumedia.com
Umuntu Media is taking the next step in entrenching itself as a major online publishing player in Africa. Having recently confirmed a $1m investment from eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund), the online publisher is adding two new portals to its stable. iZimbabwe.co.zw and iBotswana.co.bw were launched on 18 November 2011. The launch of the local [...]
‘Think Local, captivate the reader and build world class platforms for Africa from within Africa’ is the success formula for Umuntu Media CEO Johan Nel: Umuntu Media raised $1 million series A funding from Netherlands based eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) as a first step to take the successful local information portals www.iNamibia.co.na and www.iZambia.co.zm to ultimatelly an additional nine African countries. The funds will also be partly used to build a mobile communications platform that caters for Africa’s needs. This platform will be launched in Alpha version before Jan 2012.
eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund) is a venture capital fund that is dedicated to mobilize capital and experience in the Netherlands/Europe to invest in small and medium sized African digital media (internet and mobile) related companies. The target region is sub-Saharan Africa. For our new office in Nairobi, Kenya we are looking for a FUND MANAGER.
117% traffic growth – the fastest in Namibia, the fastest-growing Facebook fan page in Namibia, in the top five biggest local websites in Namibia within 3 months.
This was the performance of inamibia.co.na in Q1 of this year after the 15 January launch. The strong growth has continued into Q2 with iNamibia now being the third biggest site in Namibia already.
iNamibia’s aim is simple. Create a world-class online portal for Namibia; make information and access to all kinds of information easier, concise and cool.
