TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. What’s a record year of funding without some unicorns? billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Yassir , an African super app platform that offers on-demand services such as ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments, has raised $150 million in Series B funding, five times what it raised in its previous priced round last November. . Mary Meeker’s Bond has closed its second fund with $2 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Appetito , the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma , an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco. . The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. Chari offers an identical offering in Morocco. B2B e-commerce platform Chari is acquiring the credit line of Axa Assurance in Morocco for $22M.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

AfricInvest, through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and French-based development finance institution Proparco, co-led the early-growth round. In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. This brings GOMYCODE’s total financing to $8.85

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 Most tech observers share Cuvelier’s thoughts on VC activity in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The platform, which will allow broker-dealers, asset managers, pension funds, and institutional investors to access markets outside their own country, is announcing its launch to the public today. million in pre-seed funding from private investors and venture capital firms, including LoftyInc Capital and STEMeIn.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Its platform connects over 6,000 retailers to local and multinational suppliers — such as Namibia Breweries Limited, ABInBev, Bokomo, Coca-Cola, Namibmills — and digitizes orders, payments and logistics. And JABU — profiting from owning its supply chain — is making efforts to digitize its physical cash collection processes via wallets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Autochek expands to North Africa after acquiring Morocco’s Kifal Auto. Some include U.K.’s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Autochek expands to North Africa after acquiring Morocco’s Kifal Auto. Autochek was previously present in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. The company, which in October last year raised $13.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

million in seed funding. Since the start of this year, Jambo has already signed up over 12,000 students across 15 countries (Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Madagascar and South Africa) to take a curated web3 curriculum, both online and offline.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Since its launch in 2018, Carry1st, a publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised funding from investors such as Google via its Africa Investment Fund and Avenir Growth Capital. We now have, in our minds, the three best funds that focus on gaming and web3. 1 downloaded game in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.”

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