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Nigeria’s Termii raises $1.4M seed led by Future Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures

TechCrunch

Emmanuel says the company has its sights on North Africa with a physical presence in Algeria for the expansion. The reason lies behind the fact that in this quarter, Nigeria has accounted for 76% of the company’s messaging transactions, while Algeria currently accounts for 15%. A notable example is Kenya’s Africa Talking.

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

TechCrunch

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. GOMYCODE says it partners with various institutions to place its students. It claims to have successfully placed 80% of its students through a job-placement program. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020.

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Francophone African super app Gozem grabs $5M to expand and offer more services

TechCrunch

It was the very reason why the founders started Gozem in the first place, they told me. Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa. Almost 95% of the money and the attention goes to always four, five countries in Africa … Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt,” said Dana.

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MaxAB gets an extra $15M, acquires YC-backed Moroccan startup WaystoCap

TechCrunch

” While the acquisition signals MaxAB’s move into Morocco, it also shows the company’s entry into the Maghreb markets — Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, where there’s little or no contest. And we figured out that they’re already a perfect fit for that.”

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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.” Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present.

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How African startups raised venture capital in 2022

TechCrunch

Outside the top four countries, startups from Ghana, Algeria, Tunisia and Senegal raised the most equity funding. For Tidjane Deme , general partner at Partech Africa, more emphasis must be placed on how startups are starting to embrace debt financing. Partech: Nigeria represented 23% of African tech’s total equity funding.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

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