The DEMO Africa startup launchpad event will take place in Morocco for the first time this year, with Casablanca named as the host city for the October event. The most recent editions of DEMO Africa have been held in Johannesburg, with the last one taking place in November of last year, after previous events in Nairobi and Lagos. The African Technology Foundation (ATF), managing partners of the Liberalising Innovation Opportunity Nations (LIONS@FRICA) partnership, have now announced this year’s event – as well as next year’s – will be heading to Morocco. “Over the last six years, the DEMO Africa conference has travelled through Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa, and launched leading African technologies while showcasing the continent’s evolving entrepreneurial ecosystems and startups,” said Harry Hare, executive director of DEMO Africa. Over the last six editions of DEMO Africa, over 200 African startups have presented their solutions, and the summit has successfully positioned startups to receive over US$50 million in aggregate funding.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 21, 2018 12:45 UTC