TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. Mauritius-headquartered companies received $110 million while African startups headquartered in the U.K. million; Nigeria followed with $150.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. . The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“We are primarily focused on expanding across Africa in 2022 and in other emerging markets globally,” Wowzi co-founder and CEO, Brian Mogeni, told TechCrunch. “We Wowzi makes it possible for brands to partner with social media users for marketing campaigns. We offer a really comprehensive reporting dashboard online.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mauritius and U.K.-based The one-year-old firm is looking to invest large checks in companies “that have proven business models, strong revenue traction and large addressable markets,” it said in a statement. What we know (and don’t) about Goldman Sachs’ Africa VC investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

This is the second fund for the nine-year-old Mauritius-headquartered investment firm. The firm has a presence in Kenya, South African and Tanzania, but its core markets remain Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example. owners of Mercedes models that use MBUX will be able to opt into a beta program starting June 16 activating the ChatGPT functionality. ” They’re all chasing after a customer service software market that’ll be worth $58.1

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