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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

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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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4 keys to international expansion

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Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. Some companies are global by default — think mobile gaming companies — or simply require language localization. Levin Bunz.

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

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In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. While there are various jobs in every facet of life, tech jobs are currently in high demand in the global economy these days. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020.

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The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet

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According to the accelerator, six new countries home to these companies are making their appearance for the first time : Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Chile, Brazil and Singapore. We always said YC is founded on the principles that talent is globally distributed. compared to its first list, which included just seven non-U.S.

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How African startups raised venture capital in 2022

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For one thing, by the first half of 2022, A frica seemed to defy the global venture funding decline after its startups raised $3 billion, double the amount secured over a similar period the previous year; therefore, a twofold increase by December seemed plausible. There was reason to believe so. Kenya is a close second with $1.1

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Asset financiers to the rescue as Bolt plans to sign-up 200,000 new drivers in Africa to meet growing demand for ride-hailing services

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In October last year, FlexClub signed a partnership with Untapped Global (a smart asset financing institution) to extend credit for 2,000 EVs (half of them motorcycles) to on-demand workers using platforms such as Bolt and Uber in Mexico and South Africa. Will ride-hailing profits ever come?

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Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by BOND

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The African startup, first launched in Algeria, has now raised $193.25 When CEO Noureddine Tayebi started Yassir, the plan was to build a super app that included services people — in the French-speaking Maghreb region consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia — had little or no access to on one platform.

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