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

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It is nearly impossible for businesses in some African countries to receive money from PayPal. Via this partnership, African businesses can connect with the more than 377 million PayPal accounts globally and overcome the challenges presented by the highly fragmented and complex payment and banking infrastructure on the continent.

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Namibian B2B e-commerce retail platform JABU raises $15M led by Tiger Global

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Now, the last-mile distribution e-commerce company has received more investment: a $15 million Series A led by Tiger Global. The round, which closed sometime in March, is Tiger Global’s second investment in the B2B e-commerce space after backing Wasoko in its mega Series B round. million seed round we covered.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. With our first adtech business, we never dealt with real estate or property as we could never really service them in this country [South Africa].

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

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Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally. But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers.

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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

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E4E Africa, a South African venture capital firm, led the round, which welcomed participation from other firms such as Strat-Tech, Next Chymia, Untapped Global and Codec Ventures and angels like Ashwin Ravichandran and Kanyi Maqubela. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round. Image Credits: Qwili.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. We radically transformed the way that we did our business, and designed a process through which the refugees themselves would get all of that experience. It had been bombed. Completely random.