TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Flutterwave hopes to roll out this service to individual merchants on the platform as well. . So despite having the largest payment infrastructure in Africa, we want to have arguably all the important payments systems in the world on our platform.” This is a pain point for these businesses, particularly in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added. According to Norebase, companies that use its platform can be incorporated in any African country within “a few minutes” and expand to new locations in a week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” The companies’ combined valuation stands at over $147 million according to the firm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Qotto , a solar kits provider with operations in Burkina Faso and Benin, has raised $8 million in a Series A equity-debt round led by the IBL group, a billion-dollar conglomerate headquartered in Mauritius with business interests in a number of sectors including energy, financial services, logistics, distribution, and engineering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, at the time, more than half of its users in East Africa reported using the platform for business reasons, according to Okoudjou. T hat changed last month when it acquired Baxi , an agent banking platform developed by Capricorn Digital. However, a presence in Africa’s largest market, Nigeria, remained elusive for the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

This is the second fund for the nine-year-old Mauritius-headquartered investment firm. South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks.

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