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Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion

TechCrunch

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty.

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

In February I found myself seeking air-conditioned sanctuary in the Dar Es Salaam offices of Kinu , a co-working space and business accelerator, talking with Co-Founder and Community Manager John Paul Barretto. industry in Tanzania. Aside from the required infrastructure, labor conditions and ease of doing business, etc.,

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Tanzania’s YC alum Ramani raises $32M to digitize CPG supply chains, lend resellers

TechCrunch

By leveraging Ramani’s technology, the MDCs can digitally track their operations easily and get financing based on the performance of their businesses. The startup recently received its lending license from the Bank of Tanzania, and has already introduced a 30-day inventory financing product in the market.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. Whether that “you” is the government, business, public services, other community members, or even philanthropists. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too.

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Wingcopter raises $22 million to expand to the U.S. and launch a next-generation drone

TechCrunch

Also looking at scalability of the business model of being an OEM, it’s kind of […] linear.” But at some point, you realize you want to really plan with that revenue, so you want to have monthly revenues, which generally repeat like a software business – like software as a service.” With its U.S.

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M-KOPA raises $75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

TechCrunch

M-KOPA started with solar-power home systems targeted at lower-income and rural customers without electricity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Six years ago, it was heavily focused on East Africa, but having pulled out of Tanzania, M-KOPA is present in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Nicole Wallace, the tech reporter for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, who does a great job, just wrote an article on new business plan software that the Social Enterprise Alliance has helped develop, entitled New Technology Tools Aid Business Plans. People who have heard me speak know how excited I am about the potential of cell phones.

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