TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Insurance lags behind other financial services in the adoption of digital technologies. With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. In Africa, one startup is carving a niche for itself.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to a 2019 report by Deloitte , about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly. Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. Since the company’s Series A raise of $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

That might be a thing of the past for some businesses as African payments company Flutterwave today is announcing a collaboration with PayPal to allow PayPal customers globally to pay African merchants through its ‘Pay with PayPal’ feature. Going by this partnership, we can expect the majority of them to be global plays.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The general perception of insurance on the continent has been bland for years, and its penetration rate, except South Africa, is subpar. Per a McKinsey study in 2018, Africa’s insurance market stood at a 3% penetration rate; with South Africa excluded, it was 1.12%. The local investors involved are all founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The South Africa-based company, which currently has a team of 37 people across 18 countries, wants to use this additional capital to scale interactive content across Africa. Over time, it switched to a hybrid model, adopting a publishing role and handling distribution, marketing and operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

You can count on one hand the number of funds bigger than Tiger Global. From that fund, Tiger Global made more private investments than any other firm last year — about 340 as of late December — roughly one investment per day, according to CB Insights. However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . Kassim said the company is conducting tests with merchants in Nigeria and South Africa and expects to launch both markets in the near future. . Australia and Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Paddy Partridge, Africa regional director, Bolt Ride Hailing. Partridge said that Bolt already has vehicle-financing partnerships with banks in markets like Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, and its planning to form additional collaborations, and explore the expansion of the current ones to reach more markets and drivers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

It is also poised for greater growth as the adoption of lending, digital payments, banking and insurance services grows. . The continent is already a global leader in mobile money adoption, accounting for the bulk of the mobile money transactions made in 2020 – a year that saw the number of mobile money accounts rise by 43%.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050. New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Image Credits: Crunchbase/Endeavor.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

When we surveyed NGOs and libraries around the world this year about where they are in regard to using and needing cloud based IT services, we didn’t know how far things have gone toward cloud adoption. We found that lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to deeper cloud computing adoption. What Didn't Surprise Me.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pngme’s platform caters to fintechs and other financial institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. When the founders, Brendan Playford and Cate Rung, last spoke with TechCrunch, Pngme was heading out of stealth mode in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. The idea to build Adanian Labs, was conceived in 2018, when Kamara was living and working in Cape Town, South Africa, where he witnessed the fast growth of the startup ecosystem, and how, in most countries, accelerators were the default launch pads.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

to adopt a net zero goal back in 2019. The continent has experienced rapid growth in startup venture funding, which has grown six times faster than the global average since 2022, as well as an explosion in tech savviness among younger populations.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. TechSoup Global's NGO cloud survey found plenty of contradictions and confusion about cloud computing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The latter is home to startups like Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games, which have raised millions of dollars in venture capital owing to the adoption of crypto and play-to-earn models. Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As many edtech companies benefited from the disruption of the pandemic, attracting wads of cash from investors globally, it did feel like African startups were left out. In this case, uLesson adopts a diversified method of charging schools and their stakeholders. The investment, which comes 11 months after uLesson raised a $7.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. This alternative financial infrastructure is one of the largest globally. It’s literally a no-brainer.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a style of house music that emerged in South Africa , and Afrobeats, a popular music genre that originated from Western Africa , had increased exponentially. Europe and globally. . based music startup Vydia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Qwili , a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2 During those early stages, the phone wasn’t paying back quickly enough, and there wasn’t high enough adoption of the digital services. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The uptake comes as telehealth is said to bridge the healthcare access gap in Africa, the continent that suffers the highest disease burden in the world and the lowest patient-to-doctor ratio. We look at strategic engagement by allowing API integration at a global level,” said Macharia. This means we do not build what is available.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. TechSoup Global conducted a huge global cloud survey of NGOs in over 80 countries in March of 2012 and released the results in September. We also found that here are barriers to deep cloud adoption among NGOs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

AgriWebb claims more than 16,000 farmers and ranchers globally are using its cloud-based platform and managing approximately 19 million animals on over 136 million acres of grazing land across the globe, including Australia, the U.S. Additionally, AgriWebb has partnerships in Brazil and South Africa, Webb said. and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Futi said Orda has witnessed tremendous adoption among small restaurants in its two markets, Nigeria and Kenya, and claims the startup might have reached product-market fit already. Others include expanding its network of restaurants and continuing its pan-African expansion drive (into South Africa and much later, Ivory Coast).

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

clients “have some sort of global operations.” clients “have some sort of global operations.” “One One of the big problems that companies have when they operate globally is that they actually need to open up an account in all these different countries where they might have employees. More here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Wowzi plans to use the new investment to set up operations in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, seeking growth opportunities beyond Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, where it currently has a physical presence. It plans to use these new hubs to enter more countries across the continent. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The card payment industry, except for South Africa, maybe Nigeria and a little bit in Egypt, is a developing one and while you might be able to grow a business on that, it’s almost impossible in our region [Francophone Africa].”. said the chief executive, who founded the company with Charles Talbot.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things There are no legal structures for electronics recycling in Africa yet. Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

This allows international merchants to scale into Africa seamlessly through our technology and, in turn, allows African consumers to access global goods and services frictionlessly. of women are funded globally. Given these biases, do you think more women would get investments if there were more women investors?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

The tech behind Highnote allows GiveCard to rapidly deploy cards to its network of nonprofits and collect enough top-level anonymized data to figure out whether the programs are working, and whether the amount or the frequency of the payments needs to be adjusted, opening the possibility for more city governments to start adopting these programs.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We are proud to be backed by globally recognized investors providing a balance between deep-tech and emerging market expertise. In addition to Kenya, the company’s other clients are spread out in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s the drive for South Africa-based health tech startup HealthLeap , which focuses on a global healthcare market starting from the U.S. HealthLeap says it wants to eradicate hospital malnutrition globally. The startup provides a clinical assistant for dietitians working in hospitals.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2021

Infrastructure would have to improve in places like South Africa and Australia. Ford is unlike a lot of our competitors, we didn’t really shrink our global footprint. So we’re still a very large company in Australia and Thailand and South Africa. How are you going to adopt it? That’s modernizing Ford.

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