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

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million in pre-Series A funding. Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards. So more broadly, Flow is used by nearly 6,000 agents across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mauritius and Australia.

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

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They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. Next , they request the funds via bank transfer, leading to more incurred costs or use other cross-border money platforms like WorldRemit.

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

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AltSchool, which is now Altitude Learning) has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts, said chief executive Adewale Yusuf to TechCrunch. These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. .

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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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million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round. Qwili says the funding allows it to increase the pace at which it scales its operation toward seeing its effect in all three of these areas grow. Qwili , a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2

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YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play

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The startup will use the seed round and subsequent growth round to expand into Botswana and South Africa, grow its tech and operations team, and train its field agents. JABU, with more than 200 employees, is gearing for a Series A fundraising this quarter, Akinin told TechCrunch.

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Nata Village Blog

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The blog documents not only the lives of the people in Nata, but is a tool to raise funds for a support group for residents living with AIDS, an AIDS prevention program where youth use the arts to educate others about AIDS, and the Nata clinic. Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana.

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

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The Series A round will see JABU deepen its presence in Southern Africa and expand to new markets like Botswana and Eswatini later this year. We’re excited about that as a product because we’re trying to prove as we scale that there is a different way to engage with shops.”.

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