To celebrate its 10th anniversary of investing in African tech startups, the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced seven companies who will receive $700,000 in funding. MEST was one of the earliest tech incubators in Africa, having started an entrepreneurial school in Accra, Ghana, in 2008. MEST is part of Meltwater, the global social media monitoring firm that was itself a notable startup. Last year MEST hired the respected Aaron Fu as its managing director and opened incubators in Cape Town and Lagos. "It's been an exhilarating ride scaling MEST in Africa and this year has absolutely reaffirmed my conviction that MEST is truly unique in Africa in both approach and perspective," MEST Managing Director Aaron Fu told me.

Source: Forbes September 10, 2018 16:41 UTC