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

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally.

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

TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

They employed a business-to-customer model where Qwili sold these devices to individual users who used the platform’s digital wallet to buy value-added services. Its business-to-business model has picked up steam, too, as 500 micro and small merchants use the hybrid platform (about half use Qwili’s NFC-enabled smartphones).

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

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

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