TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Partech Africa covers equity deals in tech and digital spaces and funding rounds higher than $200,000. Senegal took the fifth spot with $353 million, while Ghana was sixth ($167 million). Startups in Senegal received more than $222 million, placing the country in fifth. In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

It expects to also select startups from additional countries, including Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, for this sixth cohort. In 2020, it selected 20 startups into the program (eight from Nigeria, six from Kenya, two from South Africa and one each from Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s why Julaya launched its services in the west African country and has since expanded into Senegal, where mobile market penetration is around 80% as well as other countries in the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) region, which also have prevalent mobile money usage. . “The

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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

MARCH 15, 2021

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities. Over 7,000 medical professionals from these facilities now provide care to more than 300,000 patients monthly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

and Senegal-based mobile money service provider, Tugende; a Ugandan mobility-tech company; and Trade Depot, a Nigeria and U.S.-based Partech has 15 investments in nine countries across Africa, including Wave; a U.S. based company that connects consumer goods brands to retailers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. It offers over 30 learning tracks ranging from web development to digital marketing and data science to artificial intelligence. One of its investors from the seed round, Wamda Capital, doubled down in this new financing.

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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. It’s literally a no-brainer. Last year, West Africa recorded 198 million mobile money accounts compared to East Africa’s 293 million.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

SMS And Social Change: Lessons From Senegal Terra Weikel, UNICEF. Digital Protests: Social Media as Activism Ramya Raghavan, YouTube. Non-Profits and Social Media: Not the Usual Suspects David Neff, American Heart Association. The New Mainstream - Journalists Redefining Their Industry Gina Cooper, Cooper Strategies.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Highlights include veteran game designer, Colleen Macklin, who will show how her games with the Red Cross bolstered climate change-related disaster preparedness in Senegal and Nambia, and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, whose work in games, film, and print has made millions aware of human rights issues in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Swizerland, India, Nigeria, Senegal and other geographies. The three companies are founded by a Nigerian port operations manager, an Airbnb superhost and a LatAm-focused digital banking exec, respectively, showcasing the deeply focused approach of these founders on more niche segments of the market where they have prior experience.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In countries like Nigeria where the government previously banned cryptocurrency transactions through licensed banks and introduced a digital currency to reduce incentives for using unregulated crypto, the crackdown against crypto usage might intensify. — FTX (@FTX_Official) November 12, 2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

This is particularly noteworthy, as every other region experienced a double-digit drop in funding activity during the same period,” said Max Cuvellier , co-founder of The Big Deal on Africa’s investment activity in 2022. Outside the top four countries, startups from Ghana, Algeria, Tunisia and Senegal raised the most equity funding.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared meetups will bring local nonprofits free digital storytelling workshops in more than 40 cities between August and October. Seattle, Washington: Digital Communications for Nonprofits. Mukono, Uganda: Digital Storytelling for Nonprofits Workshop. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Viola Vaughn "A group of failing schoolchildren in Kaolack, Senegal, once asked Viola Vaughn to help them pass their classes. I've included part of the nominees' profiles below, as they are written up on the site, but added links to their organizations and projects where I could find them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It embraced a truly hybrid model; that is, it facilitated real-time participation from every attendee, rather than just adding a digital component to an in-person event. We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. So we’ll talk about the trends, I’ll give you a framework that you can use over and over again to evaluate and assess whether or not a shiny new platform is right for you, some ideas for some social media content, and then some digital tools that you can use going forward.

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2021

When word reached Senegal of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, health practitioners in the country immediately thought back to what happened during the Ebola crisis of 2014.”There Senegal’s dashboard to track COVID cases and health center visits (courtesy of PATH). Neal Myrick. Global Head of the Tableau Foundation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Already, Autochek has rolled out its operations in Ivory Coast and Senegal following the acquisition, with more markets set to be activated, including Benin and Togo, as the auto marketplace expands. New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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Tableau

JUNE 13, 2021

When word reached Senegal of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, health practitioners in the country immediately thought back to what happened during the Ebola crisis of 2014.”There Senegal’s dashboard to track COVID cases and health center visits (courtesy of PATH). Neal Myrick. Global Head of the Tableau Foundation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

So far, we’ve touched on two layers of this ecosystem — the digital core banking service providing software that runs financial institutions’ entire operations and interbank processing, which integrates these institutions into a decentralized network powered by blockchain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), Yet, the company plans to also diversify into providing other assets, including fractional shares, stocks and commodities. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Now that Gozem is present across 13 cities, having moved to Gabon and Cameroon with over 800,000 registered users and completed more than 5 million trips, the founders say the company is setting sights on providing digital banking services and lending to its users. I think we have a fantastic differentiator.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

First, the service will be available in seven African countries, starting with Ivory Coast where it’s already live, Senegal in January, Cameroon in February, Burkina Faso in March, Tunisia in April, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo after that. Digital Virgo is handling the relationships with local content owners.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. In the interim, the lab is planning on establishing a presence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal and Ivory Coast, and considering a franchise model to help it fast track its growth. How Adanian Labs started.

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