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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There it brought teams of Google and LinkedIn employees to contribute code fixes and key feature enhancements to the open source mobile tools of our nonprofit project partner Mifos , whose mission is to enable financial institutions to become modern and digitally connected providers of financial services to the world’s 2.5 Martus Desktop 4.5

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

According to Paull Young, director of digital at charity:water, the organization ensures that 100 percent of money raised goes directly to fund water efforts, primarily in Africa and southeast Asia. Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

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. They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

TechCrunch

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. Since launching in 2019, the African payments company has partnered with Visa to launch Barter; Alipay to offer digital payments between Africa and China; and Worldpay FIS for payments in Africa.

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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

The tech startup plans to use its network of pharmacies to build what they describe as a digital primary care service. Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, are set to benefit from the virtual consultations.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. mPharma’s Mutti Online Pharmacy is now among the handful of exclusively digital pharmacies, including Kenya’s MyDawa, with operations in Africa.

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Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API

TechCrunch

They range from digital banks to post-Series A fintechs and “companies founded on the basis of Union54’s availability.” . It currently has a lean team of 10 located in Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Europe. Since joining Y Combinator, Zazu has been in stealth mode and only went live this month, CEO Mlambo told TechCrunch.

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