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APRIL 18, 2022

The company also claims to have processed volumes now reaching double digits in millions of dollars. Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API. CEO Perseus Mlambo disclosed to TechCrunch that Union54’s revenue in its first month (October) was a little less than $3,000.

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We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th.

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MARCH 2, 2022

million in pre-seed funding. The fintech landscape, as described by Bakori, is one where while startups create silo interfaces that allow their customers to send or receive funds between themselves, issues always arise when global financial systems come into play. Union54, despite being based in Zambia, has customers across Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Its offers a “high-yield” savings account, free FX and adjacent digital banking services so customers can save in a stable currency, the dollar, and spend-as-they-go in local currencies. The company was founded by Ahmed Ismail , Youcef Oudjidane , Khalid Keenan and Abdigani Diriye in late 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. “With our latest funding, now is the time to break into new ground. Agriculture insurance has traditionally relied on farm business. .”

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Impact Rooms team is currently spread across the world with some of its experts in Kenya , Zambia, Ghana, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Australia, US, UK and Switzerland. The startup is planning to establish Smart Fund, an investor-matching program that uses algorithms to pick the best opportunities for funders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

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. Klasha has a suite of business- and consumer-facing products connected via one API.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

It is this missing connection that Emtech , a central bank digital infrastructure provider, is looking to fill through its digital regulatory platform, which aims to fast-track the reach of fintech products to market. This next stage of growth comes against the backdrop of a recent $4 million seed funding from several investors. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $9 million in seed funding to scale its operational presence, recruit talent and expand into new markets.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Bloom , a Sudan-based fintech that offers a high-yield savings account and adjacent digital banking services, has raised a $6.5 Visa is taking the lead as a first mover in digital payments in Sudan. million seed round. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year. Our product is live in Sudan.

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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. In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. million seed round we covered.

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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. s development finance institution, 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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Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep. In 2006, (RED) was launched by Bono and Bobby Shriver to drive private sector funding to the AIDS fight and generate much-needed awareness.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So that leaves about 20% of the funding pool to organizations like you. Where they’re like, “No, I want my funds designated for this very specific thing, and you have to do it?” Steven: Donor is saying I don’t really care where the funds go, you know, you pick. Plus, it’s super competitive.

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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. Another digitizing-informal-retail-stores play, this time from Nigeria. Union54 (Zambia).

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2021

Rather than trying to manage health issues in siloes, PATH is focusing on working with in-country partners to grow disease monitoring digital health capability in the broadest possible sense. . “If The idea, with the funding from BMGF, was for PATH to work with local EOCs to integrate malaria response into their work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. By the end of the one-year venture building program, the startups should have launched a product, onboarded, and had repeat customers, have a defined revenue model, and have raised or are in the process of closing seed funding. “We

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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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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2021

Rather than trying to manage health issues in siloes, PATH is focusing on working with in-country partners to grow disease monitoring digital health capability in the broadest possible sense. . “If The idea, with the funding from BMGF, was for PATH to work with local EOCs to integrate malaria response into their work.

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