TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Shell-founded startup fund receives $13 million from Canadian DFI to accelerate clean energy access in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 75% of the world’s population with no access to renewable energy solutions and electricity. Sun King has previously raised $170 million in equity and debt funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Part of the funding will go toward increasing access to clean energy for off-grid households and businesses in the region. It is estimated that sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 75% of the world’s population without access to electricity and renewable energy solutions could be taken up to bridge that gap. “A

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

2) The startup that’s giving clean water to those who don’t have access. Started by a nightclub promoter tired of an unfulfilling job, charity:water doesn’t even have a marketing team but raises millions annually to give 800 million people the resource they are so lacking: access to clean drinking water.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

. … The insurance industry has been slow to innovate compared to the rest of the financial sector, yet Africa is experiencing a huge protection gap,” FSD Africa’s director of risk, Kelvin Massingham, told TechCrunch. “We We are planning to launch the BimaLab Insurtech Accelerator Program in Ghana and Nigeria.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

All these while increasing access and affordability to quality medication. Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. Tasks are accessed on-demand, from anywhere, at any time -- while riding the bus, waiting in the doctor’s office, standing in line at the post office, and more. Who are they and what are they working on?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDs epidemic in Africa. Through the creation hope-giving projects that serve the most vulnerable in Malawi, the organization connects U.S.-based The two girls met at Hope Village Orphan Care Center in Malawi.

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