YASR Digest

The Second Annual #YASR30 List is here and YASR is back to honor another 30 startups in 15 countries, 30 more stories, and 68 new founders!

Nominate your favorite African founders here for the opportunity to be selected for the second edition of #YASR30. Nominations close...

The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though...

In just one year of operating, Ingressive for Good, a tech nonprofit in Africa, has organically trained 66,570 African youths in tech,...

Charlie, Nabe, Shige, and I joined the Yale Africa Startup Review this year, where our team, the "Otaku Four," collaborated with...

Located in the South-Eastern region of Africa, Malawi has 83% of its population living in rural communities. This explains the strong...

A student and alumni-lead initiative at Yale University with a mission to share stories of innovation from the African Startup Ecosystem...

Five Ugandan startups were featured in the Yale Africa Startup Reviews list. Volcano Coffee, Uganics Repellants, MScan, Flip Africa and...

The African health tech sector is booming, thanks in part to increased opportunities presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of...

DataProphet One of Four SA Startups Listed in the Yale Africa Startup Review This week the Yale Africa Startup Review (‘YASR’) published...

A student and alumni-lead initiative at Yale University with a mission to share stories of innovation from the African Startup Ecosystem...

March 16 is set to see the release of the Yale Africa Startup Review’s first-ever #YASR30 list, which will feature 30 innovative startups...

“Is your belief in Africa’s future unshakable?” This question was asked in many different forms by Samuel Kitara ’20 MBA when he placed a...

A good company continuously learns, that is why for product-market fit, we focus less on polish and more on clarity Most of the companies...

Access to capital is one of the core tenets of the YASR mission and so we made sure the companies we selected were attractive investments...

YASR measured scalability using five factors: the vertical, new customer acquisition, customer retention, recurring revenue and market...

First things first, innovation does not equal high tech engineering Innovation is the second of five criteria which the Yale Africa...

In the next few blog posts, we take you behind the scenes to share our five criteria, the first: Africa-centricity The Yale Africa...

The Yale Africa Startup Review (YASR) is an annual Yale-wide Africa student-led feature of startups shaping the future of innovation and...

Introducing the Yale Startup Review At the Yale Africa Startup Review ('YASR' or 'Review'), we want to cover the full scale, dynamism and...