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APRIL 13, 2022

There’s no shortage of digital banks in Nigeria and, in general, in Africa. We’ve covered a host of these platforms in the past. We’ve covered a host of these platforms in the past. In the latest development, Umba , a digital banking platform operating in Lagos, Nigeria, has raised $15 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. Carrefour and Indofood. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Embedded finance solutions in less developed markers are becoming more prominent as platforms look to provide various financial solutions to the unbanked and underserved. They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. and the E.U., and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Kenyan retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform Marketforce laid off a chunk of its workforce in July, according to sources familiar with the matter. . Some of these roles were instrumental to Marketforce’s growth over the past year as the company concentrated its efforts on onboarding thousands of merchants to its RejaReja platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade. We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

MarketForce, a Kenyan B2B retail and financial services distribution startup, has expanded into five additional markets across Africa to grow RejaReja — its retailer ‘super app’ that makes it possible for informal merchants to order and pay for inventory digitally, accept payments for utility bills, and access financing for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With this mobile money ecosystem growing in double-digits year-on-year, a lot of data is being created in the process. Over the past three years, some platforms have looked to solve this problem. One such platform is Pngme. based unified financial data platform announced its seed round of $3 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The Dash team. Image Credits: Dash.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

B2B retail and e-commerce platforms have primarily tried to fix these inefficient supply chains over the last couple of years and have received substantial investor backing since the pandemic. And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Digital lenders that share personal data of loan defaulters, with third parties, risk license withdrawal in Kenya after lawmakers added a clause – granting the banking regulator the mandate to revoke permits of operators who breach customer confidentiality – to the new law passed by the country’s National Assembly. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tala , an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding. Then, Tala plans to use blockchain-based finance to refine its capital market strategy and connect investors and borrowers on the Tala platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Buoyed by the new funding, Badili plans to explore new growth opportunities in West Africa, where it hopes to tap an increasing demand for affordable second-hand smartphones, even as it scales its operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. “We Smartphone re-commerce platform Cashify bags $90 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to a McKinsey report, most African countries have experienced double-digit insurance growth in CAGR in local currency over the last five years, thus positioning the region as the second-fastest growing for insurance globally after Latin America. As many as 2.8% Despite the abysmal number, there’s some good news.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

It began on this path by building and distributing an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that allowed businesses in different sectors to create tailored insurance solutions for their customers. These plans also include enabling the digitization of traditional insurers as innovation continues to shape the industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Chargel, which came out of stealth last year, matches shippers with transporters, digitizing processes that were previously largely offline. In its next phase of growth, it is opening up its platform to more clients, as it had limited access to 10 companies. This year we are opening up the platform to more shippers in Senegal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. He also said that since launch, RejaReja had grown exponentially with over 87,000 orders made through the platform at an average basket value of $151.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Reaching your primary care doctor when you’re not feeling well is getting harder and harder, and 1Doc3 aims to solve that problem in LatAm by offering a telemedicine platform powered by AI that does symptom assessment, triage and pre-diagnosis before connecting the patient to a doctor. “In In March of 2021, the company had $120,000 in MRR.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Thus, users in Nigeria and Kenya can receive foreign payments from over 88 countries using USD, GBP, and EUR bank accounts created on the platform, convert them into their local currencies (naira and shilling) and withdraw directly to their mobile money or local bank account. They can also send money to the UK and Europe on the platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The world of digital payments is very fragmented, with different types of online bank accounts, digital wallets and money transfer services used in different countries. For example, Western Union uses Thunes so it can move money into digital wallets and bank accounts. We are looking forward to helping them scale up.”.

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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 They say the platform has been launched in Sudan but declined to give specific numbers of customers actively using the product. Visa is taking the lead as a first mover in digital payments in Sudan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Appzone platforms are used by 18 commercial banks and more than 450 microfinance banks in Africa. Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.”

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

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Last February, he revealed that this involvement led him to offer short-term crypto loans to entrepreneurs, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania — and traditional loans via Pngme before pivoting to an open finance play. Aided by the new capital, Masa claims to have recorded double-digit growth each month since the start of the year.

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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. The platform will go live in Kenya in the next couple of months, said Anuna. KlashaCart.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

This technology allows people to send and receive money, pay for bills and buy data offline, and reports say more than 90% of digital transactions in sub-Saharan Africa are performed on its rails. . The platform came out of beta last May. It was an API platform that allowed developers to build apps on USSD rails. Enter Stax.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. In a period of two years, Adanian Labs has grown beyond Kenya, by establishing a presence in Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Nigeria – some of the biggest startup and tech hubs in Africa. How Adanian Labs started. Africa-wide Growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Pakistan’s Zaraye wants to change that with its platform that connects manufacturers directly with suppliers. Let’s do a proverbial cannonball into the startup pond: Software eats food distribution : Cerve raised $2 million for a wholesaler platform as post-COVID food distribution digitizes. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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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. An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. It’s literally a no-brainer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Construction is the one of the least digitized industries out there. MarketForce, a retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. So it was good news to report that Siteline had emerged from stealth with $18.4

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

DoinGud is a soon-to-launch platform providing, “…NFT ecosystem for creators, collectors, curators, and communities to do good.” Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. Essentially, Ohana is a mobile-friendly platform for finding social services. Right now, it is only available on Apple's iOS platform. Identifying Nearby Resources.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. Now, here's the latest: Digital Inclusion. It's about time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Farmazonzilla: A platform for farmers, cooperatives, and traders that aggregates, connects, and recommends farming services and products to simplify finding facilities, tools, training, and transports. Digital Agriculture Product Manager, World Food Programme Digital Transformation Unit, Nairobi. Casper Stryndom.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Digitizing CPGs with some MDCs to gain a lot of GMV : Tanzania-based Ramani raised $32 million as it develops financial services designed to digitize consumer packaged goods supply chains and lend to resellers. Annie has more. 4 ways to use e-commerce data to optimize LTV pre- and post-holiday.

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