TechImpact

JUNE 30, 2013

The crusade for digital inclusion, an undertaking still well underway here in the United States and throughout the developed world, is also alive well in rural regions of Africa. As discussed in a recent report from Jim Lynch at Techsoup, the NGO MyDigitalBridge just recently started its work in the mostly rural nation of Namibia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

CEO David Akinin founded JABU in mid-2020 to fix Namibia’s inefficient and almost nonexistent supply chain and distribution. 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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. I’m well acquainted with the big digital inclusion projects in the U.S. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world. Digital Inclusion Collaboration in Africa.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. The startup, which uses the Ai2 EarthRanger platform, protects more than 1.2 Featured video courtesy of Conservation X Labs.

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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. This time, it’s a startup that was in the news this January: Namibia-based JABU , whose $3.2 million seed round we covered.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The digital banking space in Africa is taking shape as neobanks on the continent grow in numbers like their global counterparts. The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda. African customers are in dire need of credit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards.

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