TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. In November last year, Husk launched its first six mini-grids in Nigeria, and is looking to have 100 operational within two years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Remedial Health has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies and stem the supply of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products, starting with Nigeria before expanding to the rest of Africa. Other notable startups in the space are Kenya’s MyDawa, Ghana’s mPharma and Nigeria’s DrugStoc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. Today’s news is from Alerzo , a little-known B2B e-commerce retail startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria. Omnibiz gets $3M to digitize Nigeria’s informal B2B supply chain. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

of its adult population had one form of insurance policy in Nigeria as of 2018. The self-described “Nigeria’s first 100% digital insurance company” has raised a $4 million pre-seed round. Unlike the former, insurance around job loss is relatively uncommon in Nigeria. In the news today is one such company: Casava.

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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. In an interview with TechCrunch, he said these experiences gave him exposure to the application of technology in the power sector, and he saw an opportunity to apply that in Nigeria and across Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Each stakeholder can access tools around inventory management, sales, tracking, digital invoices, analytics on the platform. Adesina said in Q1 2022, Sabi plans to roll out a subscription model where agents will pay a monthly fee to access a reseller model.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

It also has a presence in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria, where it says its customers tripled over the last one year. Shell-founded startup fund receives $13 million from Canadian DFI to accelerate clean energy access in Africa. Sun King has previously raised $170 million in equity and debt funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”. Kuti’s comments highlight critical issues with healthcare in Nigeria: accessibility and affordability. Image Credits: Reliance Health. The six-year-old startup said it has averaged a 3.5x

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion. but rarely used in markets like Nigeria. “In

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

His firm, Seven Seas Technologies , has previously worked with governments too — having been involved in the initial implementation of the decentralized service delivery hubs – Huduma Centres , which grant citizens access to nearly all government services through a single portal. seed funding. To date, Ponea has attracted $4.3

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In Nigeria, some go to the extent of keeping information offhand. Most of these features are geared at onboarding a wide range of businesses in Nigeria to the platform; however, the strategy is to introduce credit and other financial services to them. But in reality, they all converge at one point, which is providing access to credit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Kuda , the challenger bank based in Nigeria and the U.K., 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Not only does this limit investors’ access to high-growth securities, but it also limits access to capital that has grown in leaps and bounds over the past couple of years. SecondSTAX provides access to debt and equity securities across multiple African bonds and stock exchanges. To bolster its efforts, it has also raised $1.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are over 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no access to financial services. . There’s also limited access where members cannot consistently save if absent from a particular location. Image Credits: Bankly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

to reach a relative in Nigeria. Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe , two software engineers based in Nigeria, faced this problem in 2019. Pioneer gives founders access to funding streams and talent hardly found outside Silicon Valley. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. The platform charges $0.50

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For them, accessing loans can be difficult, which is a problem fintechs try to solve. Three years after launching its mobile lending service in Nigeria , the company set up shop in India , Asia’s second-most populous country in August 2020. FairMoney has come a long way since its Nigeria launch in 2017. There are over 1.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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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. . Nigeria’s Mono raises millions to power the internet economy in Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Chibuzo Opara and Adham Yehia, being all too familiar with the problems of poor pharmaceutical supply chains, are planning to widen the reach of DrugStoc, a e-health drug procurement platform that eliminates these challenges by linking drug companies with institutions such as hospitals and pharmacies, in Nigeria. million series A funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nigeria has a population of almost 200 million, with 60% under the age of 25. They can access the platform’s first-semester content for free and practice. The company is also exploring B2B partnerships with private schools in Nigeria and Africa, using AltSchool’s curriculum in their classes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round. The service, which is only available for incorporating businesses in Nigeria, the U.S.

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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 7, 2022

Instead, its wallet allows users to access a plethora of services they can’t find on their traditional provider. In total, it has processed over $1 billion since its launch in 2020 from 1 million customers the company has acquired from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, Boampong said. It doesn’t aim to replace mobile money or banks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. ” Badamosi, who returned to Nigeria from the UK in 2015, worked as the general manager for Starta Africa, an online community for African tech entrepreneurs. The introductory batch was all Nigerian.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

TradeDepot , a Nigeria- and U.S.-based TradeDepot operates a B2B marketplace that connects small shops, kiosks, retailers with wholesalers of global consumer brands who have access to food, beverages and personal care products. Merchants are able to double or triple what they normally buy just because of this access.

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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. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

The adoption of buy now, pay later (BNPL) in Nigeria as a payment option both online and at the point of sale is expected to record a CAGR of 20% from 2021 to 2028, per this report. Consumers can access credit from ?5,000 But becoming a market leader in Nigeria or Africa isn’t CredPal’s for the taking.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

” The company, which currently offers mobile-first banking services in Nigeria, has picked up $25 million in a Series A being led by Valar Ventures, the firm co-founded and backed by Peter Thiel, with Target Global and other unnamed investors participating. “We closed February at $2.2 ” Image Credits: Kuda.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Voltron will be deploying capital to roughly 30 startups, mostly in pre-seed and seed-stage across Africa, in a bid to “address the severe lack of access to early-stage funding for African tech companies.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It became clear that the fundamental issue that drivers face is consistent access to vehicles. And that is when we realized that if we are to be successful at solving the challenge of mobility across the continent, we have to first address the issue of vehicle access.”. Photo Credits : MAX.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Realizing emerging opportunities, Xetova , a Kenyan startup, is deploying technologies that make information on market opportunities accessible to traders. We are building a trust network that, for example, allows a company in Kenya to know who to work with in a country like Nigeria, South Africa.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. First, it planned to increase productivity in Nigeria’s agricultural sector using software.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Underserved communities often face unique challenges when accessing and harnessing digital technologies. We provide small funds for female entrepreneurs in our country who do not have access to credit. In many developed countries and regions, resources related to education and employment are not equally accessible to women.

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