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Nigeria’s digital payroll platform Bento expands to Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana, to enter six other African markets in 2022

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In its next phase of expansion, Bento is eyeing Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Ethiopia by the end of next year. Workpay, a Y Combinator startup, is among the 50 enterprises in Africa that received equity-free funding and support from Google.

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NowNow raises $13M seed, plans to scale its ecosystem of financial products across Africa

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With the newly secured funds, NowNow plans to grow its platform, team and marketing for the scale the company is “now ready to embrace.” Angola is one of those places where we found that the digital payment space is pretty far behind and we might launch there over the next month.

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