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Fidelity, Visa and Kingsway back South African fintech JUMO in $120M round

TechCrunch

The company adds that this number can grow to $40 billion when it expands to Nigeria and Cameroon in 2022. Asides from the expansion into Nigeria and Cameroon, JUMO says it will use the investment to improve and increase the number of financial products it offers to small and medium businesses.

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

TechCrunch

Akinin launched a startup to offer digital mortgages but pivoted to a construction company with a presence in Namibia, Zambia and Cameroon. Namibia had huge housing demand at the time. Due to the pandemic, Akinin’s construction company embarked on a COVID relief program to donate food supplies in Namibia.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

TechCrunch

This goal is achievable for the startup, which has successfully conducted campaigns across multiple markets in Africa including Mauritius, Mozambique, Zambia and Cameroon. “We We actually had our first engagement in Cameroon recently after Netflix asked us to work with them in an additional eight countries.

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Find an Awesome Nonprofit Tech Training Near You

Tech Soup

Yaoundé, Cameroon: TechSoup Online Programs. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Buéa, Cameroon: TechSoup Online Programs. Limbe, Cameroon: TechSoup Online Programs. Douala, Cameroon: TechSoup Online Programs. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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These 10 biotech companies are changing how we discover new drugs and treat complex diseases

Fast Company Tech

Basecamp Research has also worked to ensure that the benefits of its discoveries are shared fairly with the communities whose native biodiversity feeds the platform, by tracing the source of proteins that clients use to develop products, and making royalty payments to these communities starting in the R&D phase.

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NetSquared Celebrates Progress and Looks Forward to 2015

Tech Soup

International NetSquared group leaders will also get together for training throughout the year, with our first events already planned for the United Kingdom, Cameroon, and Kenya. Douala, Cameroon: NetSquared Camp Kribi Cameroon. Douala, Cameroon: Celebre Douala en Decembre 2014. Upcoming Events. Sunday, January 4, 2015.

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Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets

TechCrunch

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.