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

TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

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%.

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Egypt’s Mylerz raises $9.6M for its e-commerce fulfillment service, eyes Africa-wide growth

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MAY 10, 2022

As Mylerz expands to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, Fawry, its payments partner, will come along to provide electronic payment and cash collection services. Egyptian fintech Paymob raises $50M led by PayPal Ventures and Kora Capital.

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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Yassir, an Algerian startup that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, has raised a $30 million Series A round. This round of funding makes Yassir the most funded startup in Algeria and one of the most funded in the Maghreb and MENA region. After earning a Ph.D.

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How African startups raised venture capital in 2022

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JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. Total funding and number of deals Briter Bridges: According to the market intelligence firm, African startups raised $5.4

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

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JUNE 9, 2022

It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. AfricInvest, through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and French-based development finance institution Proparco, co-led the early-growth round.

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

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MARCH 15, 2021

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. Like when its partnership with Worldpay FIS coincided with its Series B funding, this announcement is also coming on the back of a raise.

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

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JUNE 16, 2020

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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4 keys to international expansion

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

After an initial success helping Groupon scale internationally via a merger with Rocket’s incubation firm CityDeal, Rocket’s team have aggressively scaled businesses from Algeria to Zimbabwe — sometimes in a matter of weeks. No surprise, Rocket also has a graveyard of failed companies that were victims of bad internationalization efforts.

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

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The second is that companies YC backed four to five years ago, after raising a series of venture capital rounds, are now commanding huge valuations that they didn’t have in 2018. According to her, when one or two YC-backed companies in a region begin to scale while raising huge amounts of capital, it inspires other founders to apply to YC.

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

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Yassir , an African super app platform that offers on-demand services such as ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments, has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it raised in its previous priced round last November. . The African startup, first launched in Algeria, has now raised $193.25

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

TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Last month, MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, raised one of the largest Series A on the continent , to the tune of $40 million. The company subsequently raised a $3 million seed round. MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup, raises $40M for expansion.

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

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Gozem , a super app that provides a host of services — including transport, e-commerce and financial services in Francophone Africa — has raised $5 million in Series A financing, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. It follows the $7 million raised in previous seed rounds via three tranches from investors such as U.S.

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

Egypt’s Mylerz raises $9.6M for its e-commerce fulfillment service, eyes Africa-wide growth

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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

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

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

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

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

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

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