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Chari, a Moroccan startup digitizing mom and pop stores, raises $5M at $70M valuation

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If there’s a sector that has seen the biggest uptick in the number of startups and venture capital in emerging markets since the start of last year, it has to be the digitization of mom and pop stores. Chari wants to digitize informal retail stores in Morocco and provide credit to them.

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Senegal’s logistics tech startup Chargel raises $2.5M seed funding

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Chargel, which came out of stealth last year, matches shippers with transporters, digitizing processes that were previously largely offline. Image Credits: Chargel Chargel transporters, operating out of Senegal, make deliveries to neighboring countries Mali, Guinea and Mauritania.

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MaxAB gets an extra $15M, acquires YC-backed Moroccan startup WaystoCap

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” While the acquisition signals MaxAB’s move into Morocco, it also shows the company’s entry into the Maghreb markets — Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia, where there’s little or no contest. WaystoCap is bringing Africa’s cross-border trade into the digital era.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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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.” Europe, South Korea and New Zealand, and soon more will be able to download the app from the app store.

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