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South African payments startup Yoco raises $83M Series C backed by Dragoneer

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In South Africa, these businesses contribute around one-third of the country’s GDP. Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. “We want to offer whatever payment methods our merchants need. .

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Egyptian startup Convertedin raises $3M, caters to e-commerce brands in MENA and Latin America

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His time as an employee opened his eyes to the opportunity of helping offline stores retarget and retain their customers online while finding new ones to shop at their stores offline. “If Fergany also said Convertedin is eyeing South Africa and India too. “We If you walk into IKEA and they take your phone number down.

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Rensource-spinoff Sabi closes $6M bridge round, expands B2B retail platform outside Nigeria

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Most of these businesses operated offline until a few years ago when startups brought about digitization by providing infrastructure and a gamut of e-commerce and financial services. Sabi is an attempt at platforming the informal sector and African trade via various online and offline channels.

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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

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While big restaurants and restaurant chains are often capable of setting their management systems or using well-known point-of-sale providers, thousands of smaller restaurants in Africa rely on offline methods such as pen and paper to produce receipts and make reconciliations.

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Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech providing digital solutions for school admin, raises $1.8M

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We’ve built an extensive distribution channel covering almost half of the high schools in Kenya, and that means we have an opportunity to solve other tech needs that schools have,” said Nyangolo. “We And the platforms for producing these report forms were offline computer-based platforms.

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African edtech startup uLesson raises $15M, backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

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Schools have become a big channel for us, and half of our subscribers are using us in schools,” he said. “We The platform is available in other markets, such as South Africa, Sierra Leone, the UK, Liberia, Gambia and the US, but Shagaya said uLesson has spread in these countries via word of mouth.