TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, are set to benefit from the virtual consultations. It is raising more funding to further grow its business across the continent. The health start-up received $1.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Sub-Saharan Africa’s share of the global population without access to electricity stood at 77% in 2020, according to reports. Africa is home to the fastest growing cities in the world, but when most people think of energy access in Africa, they think of the rural areas with little or no access to electricity at all.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Open finance thrives on the notion that access to a financial ecosystem via open APIs and new routes to move money, access financial information and make borrowing decisions reduces the barriers and costs of entry for the underbanked. . Also, a long-overdue pan-African expansion to Ghana and Kenya is top priority.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Earnipay , a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. A few individual businesses have sought to tackle this problem internally and allow employees to access their daily salaries as they work for it. 250 ($0.5)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Africa Health Holdings , a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go toward building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. This is in addition to providing access to test results, and 24-hour emergency response.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford important purchases outright. Six years ago, it was heavily focused on East Africa, but having pulled out of Tanzania, M-KOPA is present in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. It became clear that the fundamental issue that drivers face is consistent access to vehicles.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Joseph Heller is a small businesses expert and the CEO of Supplied , a wholesale platform for small businesses and brands that makes it easier for boutique owners to access high-quality, affordable items. Those closer to the concentric circles of venture capital know that venture capital exists and they know how to access it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Kuda is currently making some strategic changes to serve its customers better and continue to make financial services more accessible, affordable and rewarding to every African,” said the four-year-old company, citing reasons for the layoffs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

But also really pushing towards what’s possible for business owners in Ghana and Nigeria, who has a smartphone in their pocket.”. OZÉ boasts of a client base of more than 125,000 business owners in Ghana and Nigeria. In Ghana, businesses can accept payments via mobile money or card and a bank transfer or card in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

market to theirs — thrives on the notion that access to a financial ecosystem via open APIs will improve access to financial information and lower entry costs for the underbanked. . Mono has delivered on only Ghana, for now, piloting with a few banks and fintechs such as Oze and Tranzo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The funding comes at a time when Farmerline, which has operations across Ghana, is setting up shop in Ivory Coast as it continues its expansion across West Africa. The logistics network also supports farmers to quickly access markets for better incomes and to reduce post-harvest losses and waste.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. My background is in community media.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This summer while leading a young women STEM study abroad program in Ghana she facilitated Tableau for Teaching workshops with students and faculty at the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(Kumasi). Dunaway has taken a leading role in helping academics jump-start their learning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. The company will roll out the service to users in Ghana, South Africa and Kenya before the end of the year. the CEO says that users in Uganda, South Africa and Kenya will be the first to get access next year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last March, the Ghana-founded and New York–headquartered Dash raised $32.8 By March of 2022, five months after its first seed tranche, Dash’s total processing volume topped $1 billion and had acquired a million users from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, Boampong told TechCrunch in the March interview. Kinyua assumes the role of interim CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. Power allows gig and salaried workers access to earned wages and other financial services, and contribute to savings via partner banks. .

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Through the NFT marketplace, he said, fans will have access to tokens such as behind-the-scenes videos and album art. NFT holders will also get other perks like access to unreleased music and exclusive live events by the creatives. They get instant access to millions of people all around the world at the touch of a button.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For most of Twiga’s operational history, it connected vendors and outlets with farmers via an app to access different agricultural produce. . After that, Twiga will look at other markets — Cote d’Ivoire, DRC Congo, Ghana and Nigeria. Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Merchants also struggle to access finance to perform cross-border trade in the continent. The startup has expanded beyond Nigeria and claims that merchants from the West African country, as well as Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Rwanda, can use its platform to move freight in and out of their countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s an identical problem for more than 51% of 44 million formal SMBs in sub-Saharan Africa who say they need more finance than they can access to grow their businesses, per research. For Float, it prides itself on giving businesses access to financial and software services simultaneously.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. That means that most of the continent faces challenges chasing new job opportunities, going to school, accessing healthcare and just having a night on the town.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They can access the platform’s first-semester content for free and practice. These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. A McKinsey and Co. million pre-Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Because many of them, particularly in the two-wheeler space, lack access to some financial services, being contractors is disadvantageous. The startup proceeded to create a partner ecosystem structured so that some give it access to new users while others support its ecosystem and marketplace. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso. “What we do multiplies the valuation of almost every startup because then they can access more markets from the get-go,” said the founder of the partners using its platform.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

Twitter’s Public Policy team said in a statement Saturday it was “deeply concerned” and would work to restore access in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Its API allows these merchants to access telecom operators’ mobile money systems to receive and send payments to millions of mobile money accounts. . PawaPay wants to position itself as a market leader in high-volume mobile money payments while delivering reliability and transparency for merchants.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

billion people do not have basic access to financial services, 42% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are unbanked and only 11% of adults are under credit bureau coverage in Africa. So far, JUMO has served loans worth over $3.5 billion to more than 18 million customers across these markets, granting up to 120 million individual loans.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across Africa make up the bulk — over 90% — of businesses in the continent but are still marginalized in accessing credit from formal institutions because of the nature of their operations; for instance, many often lack the kind of collateral that is acceptable by banks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Oze : a female-founded, small-business-focused fintech from Ghana. Access to Disrupt — including four additional passes and VIP access to all the presentations, breakouts and roundtables. AltSchool Africa : An edtech startup from Nigeria. Read about them on TechCrunch. Don’t delay.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It also recently expanded into Nigeria, Ghana and Vietnam, among other markets. The startup’s largest user base is in Nigeria, and it also has a major presences in India, Ghana and Vietnam, and growing user bases in Brazil, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Create a social media punch list for cryptocurrency marketing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Per a statement shared by the company, the investment will support its expansion into other African markets, mainly Kenya, Egypt, Ghana and Cameroon. . Consumers can access credit from ?5,000 In 2018, CredPal launched a point-of-sale consumer credit service plugged into e-commerce stores for lower-to-middle class income earners.

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