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JUNE 8, 2022

Other investors in the round include Slack Fund and Cleveland Avenue , with Mike Gamson , Sterling Road , and Concrete Rose Capital as repeat investors. With the new funding, Five to Nine plans to expand its engineering teams, create new products, and increase hiring. “What we’re doing is super needed in the market.”

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AUGUST 31, 2021

“This is the largest batch we have ever funded and it’s about 50% international. Nigeria leads the way again with five startups, while Egypt has four, Morocco has two, and Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa each have one. Managers of delivery businesses handle hundreds or thousands of delivery points every day.

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MARCH 8, 2022

As managing partner at Class 5 Global, a San-Fransisco venture fund that has backed startups like Careem and Meliuz, Oudjidane was central to the VC’s efforts in assessing investment opportunities across emerging markets. We think the right way to build a business is to go after the largest opportunity first. So why Sudan? “We

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JUNE 8, 2022

Other investors in the round include Slack Fund and Cleveland Avenue , with Mike Gamson , Sterling Road and Concrete Rose Capital as repeat investors. With the new funding, Five to Nine plans to expand its engineering teams, create new products and increase hiring. “What we’re doing is super needed in the market.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. It also plans to provide longer-term lending options for merchants and bigger businesses.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

The concept is ubiquitous in East Africa, but since mobile money is a telecom operators-led initiative, there are technical complexities in creating a unified infrastructure for businesses that need it. based fund 88mph co-led the round with China-based MSA Capital, with participation from Zagadat Capital, Kepple Ventures and Vunani Capital.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

The trained lawyer did all this while running the Africa Payments Club, a platform that brought together a pool of founders, experts and investors in the tech space to connect and address common business challenges as well as to scout for opportunities in Africa. This in addition to helping 1,000 startups raise funds.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Agriculture insurance has traditionally relied on farm business. Social enterprises like One Acre Fund, startups like Apollo Agriculture, and agribusiness giants like Flour Mills and Export Trading Group are also among Pula’s clients. “With our latest funding, now is the time to break into new ground. In the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Private equity fund AfricInvest FIVE co-led the Series C round with existing investors Goodwell Investments and LUN Partners Group. New investors CommerzVentures, Allan Gray Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest also joined the round , while ShoreCap III returned as an existing investor with other funds.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Klasha has a suite of business- and consumer-facing products connected via one API. KlashaCheckout allows merchants outside Africa to collect payments from six countries on the continent — Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Kenya — and get paid in G20 currencies like dollars, pounds or euros.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its expansion phase, backed by a $3 million pre-seed funding, the startup looks to tap some of the biggest distributors and e-commerce players in Ghana, and later Nigeria, to grow beyond Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. A SaaS provider for businesses, logistics providers and marketplaces.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The company also just closed on $14 million in funding to expand its business across Africa. While pursuing a business degree at NYU Ibrahim met Nichols, who had been working on large-scale solar projects in the U.S., But growing up, Ibrahim was told stories about East Africa. at an event for budding entrepreneurs in New York.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

In one development of that theme, today, Taptap Send — one of the startups building tools to manage these money transfers — is announcing $65 million in growth funding as it continues its mission to enable remittances specifically to the most overlooked countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

mPharma disclosed to TechCrunch that it has acquired a 55 percent stake previously held by the Abraaj Group, a private equity firm that collapsed after investors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sounded an alarm over the administration of its $1 billion healthcare fund. Vine used to be the biggest pharmacy chain in Uganda.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , mPharma is one of the well-funded startups across Africa raising over $50 million since inception, this includes a Series C round of $17 million, led by UK’s development arm CDC Group, it received last year. We currently have five centers open.

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MAY 25, 2022

In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. Akinin says what differentiates his startup from others is how it is creating a supper and much broadly an ecosystem for small businesses rather than just a marketplace. CEO David Akinin said that number has increased by 50%.

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MARCH 2, 2022

This next stage of growth comes against the backdrop of a recent $4 million seed funding from several investors. “We Already, CBDCs are taking off in Africa, with Zambia and Kenya being the latest countries to test their viability. Emtech has now moved into production following the successful pilot in Ghana last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We are sitting on the precipice of a very busy few weeks, so let’s get right to work! Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

That’s why we’re all in this business. So that leaves about 20% of the funding pool to organizations like you. And you can leverage that kind of credibility if you have that kind of brand to raise more money because fundamentally, people like to do business with people they like, trust, and know. Remember that.

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JUNE 19, 2009

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. He was actually on a business trip, on his bike, to Uganda. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund.

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JUNE 29, 2022

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kamara was busy establishing another new startup Adanian Labs in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. It may have been a tough period to build a business but they sailed through with their mission. “We Africa-wide Growth.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

million in seed funding. Still, unlike well-known guilds whose business models involve taking percentages of profit from its users, his company doesn’t plan to take a cut from its users’ earnings. Zhang said Jambo wants to build that infrastructure.

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