TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq. The investment from Visa came as one of the incentives for Bloom’s participation in the global card scheme’s Fintech Fast Track Program. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style. holiday shopping fair trade

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. It also entered Ethiopia in March last year by signing a franchise agreement with Belayab Pharmaceuticals through its subsidiary, Haltons Limited.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After scoring a job at the development firm Dalberg, then working in India and Ethiopia, Pal returned to the U.S. While that only leads to roughly 4% reductions in global carbon emissions, it reduces about 1,200 pounds of carbon emissions. to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School.

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This goal is increasingly critical as the number of forcibly displaced people globally continues to increase at record levels. The grant will support five research projects undertaken by refugee-led organizations in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda to generate actionable insights and practical solutions to advance self-reliance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And as pressure mounts to find new crop land to support the growth, the world’s eyes are increasingly turning to the African continent as the next potential global bread basket. The world’s food supply must double by the year 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population, according to a report from the United Nations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Also, the company helps local studios that find it difficult to create games with a global appeal by pairing them with strong operators. “For global studios, this is the difference between making money and not,” Robbin-Coker added. . Demand for Carry1st has grown rapidly.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The company claims that it is the only smart address verification service globally with this smartphone feature. OkHi’s grand mission, the founder says, is to get these people who don’t have a physical address included in the global address system. As a product manager at Google for seven years in London and the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

We are in the middle of global disruption due to widespread mobile Internet and cloud technology, Big Data, the rise of the collaborative economy and crowdsourcing/funding. When you send a message to this Facebook Messenger bot named Yeshi, she tells her story about how her daily walk for clean water in Ethiopia. .

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. Addressing a global pandemic and economic crisis while also driving for change in other areas—from racial inequity to equitable education to hunger—is a monumental challenge. At the beginning of the pandemic, we engaged in direct COVID relief with our government partners in Ethiopia,” Mapp says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The managing partner says Savannah is big on startups that can scale across regions in Africa — Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda in East Africa; Ivory Coast and Ghana in West Africa; and globally. The firm has a presence in Kenya, South African and Tanzania, but its core markets remain Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion underbanked people globally , the majority of which are from emerging markets. Last year, Nigerian fintech Paga with 15 million users and a network of over 24,000 agents acquired Ethiopian software company Apposit to fast-track its expansion into Ethiopia and Mexico. . There are over 1.7 FairMoney is on a similar path, as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Its platform is active in 10 African markets; however, it fully supports six countries — Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana and Ethiopia, where more than 100 banks and mobile money accounts are available for customers to use. Mobile money is more used in Kenya than anywhere else globally. Nigeria and Kenya.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

His roles involved representing Australia in international negotiations on global health and humanitarian affairs and as an advisor to the UN secretary general on global health and pandemic preparedness. . These countries seldom embark on intervention projects alone or solely with Zenysis. based VC firm 500 Startups. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. Marie Nielsen, founder of a paper recycling company in Ethiopia called Penda Paper Recycling, is a partner at the firm.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Other existing investors include Silicon Valley backer Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital, Shravin Bharti Mittal of the Bharti Global Limited, Social Capital and Golden Palm Investments. Earlier this year, mPharma entered Ethiopia after striking a franchising deal with Belayab Pharmaceuticals through its subsidiary, Haltons Limited.

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Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. For me the highlight of the event (though there were many highlights) was a talk given by Owen Barder of AidInfo. He spoke of his vision for a "cloud of aid information".

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Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. Addressing a global pandemic and economic crisis while also driving for change in other areas—from racial inequity to equitable education to hunger—is a monumental challenge. At the beginning of the pandemic, we engaged in direct COVID relief with our government partners in Ethiopia,” Mapp says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Location : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ” How it says it differs from rivals : The one-year-old startup claims to be the leading food delivery service in Ethiopia and is 67% cheaper than the competition. beU delivery. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 300. What it says it does : Runs a food delivery service in Africa.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other existing investors include Silicon Valley backer Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital, Shravin Bharti Mittal of Bharti Global Limited-an Indian Conglomerate, Social Capital and Golden Palm Investments. mPharma also enjoys expertise backing from well experienced professions in the pharmaceutical industry. We currently have five centers open.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Company name: SALUBATA What it does: Shoes made of recycled plastic Founder: Yewande Akinse Country: Nigeria The pitch: SALUBATA makes patented modular shoes from recycled plastic waste in an effort to decrease the global carbon footprint. and is looking to raise $3 million to scale globally, Akinse shared.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Globally, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms, such as Unit and Treasury Prime, have helped newly launched businesses scale to thousands of customers. The accelerator backed beU delivery, a food delivery app in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and an identical platform, Heyfood , based in Ibadan, Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Pariti also connects the founders for one-on-one sessions with members of its global expert community. Both founders of East African descent — Berhane from Eritrea and Ayele from Ethiopia — crossed paths a couple of times but took different routes to be where they are now. ” It doesn’t end there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Thanks in part to a global boom in venture capital activity last year, Nigeria became the first African country to singlehandedly cross the billion-dollar mark while also collecting bragging rights as the preferred destination for mega-investors like Tiger Global and SoftBank. Y Combinator is paying attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Depending on the community the children come from (and excluding Ethiopia as a separate historical case of Christianity sans missionaries), the children are much more likely to be Christian by the time they are young adults (if they were not already Christian when they entered).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. The Well That Twitter Built: On September 18th, Mashable's Twitter followers donated $3,536 to Charity:Water, an initative to build wells in Ethiopia.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. Global Summit on Community Philanthropy. Global Summit on Community Philanthropy. Global Fund for Community Foundations / Johannesburg, (Int.) 10/18/2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As one of the key people on the Global Twestival team, her role involved a lot of different tasks; setting the strategy, writing the guidebook, mentoring city organizers, establishing teams for sideline projects, administration, working with the charity, securing partnerships, developing website content, and communications.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

An inclusive environment that cultivates engagement from a global community. We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. What do you get when you combine around the table with virtual collaboration?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

Before the age of computers and social media, the broadcasting of live imagery from Ethiopia culminated in Live Aid, one of the most successful charity events at that time. Note: TechSoup Global is donating to the ALA Association as well. Visit their website for more information on how to donate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. For development, there are blogs from agencies like bellanet or global s for a selection of blogposts from any country you are interested in. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Save the Children has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources. "Time, enthusiasm, expertise, skills.it or someone else???s

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. And, I've also set up Twitter Micro Campaign using TipJoy and will ask folks for $5.20 to support the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

First is how it operates going forward in a crowded tech talent marketplace with the likes of Ethiopia’s Gebeya and Nigeria’s Decagon and Semicolon. The other would be helping the company to be a global company, not just an African one. How nontechnical talent can break into deep tech. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The mix of positives such as a fast-growing population–the youngest globally–, solid smartphone penetration, increasing crypto adoption, and negatives like low GDP per capita across board and unemployment makes Africa the next ripe ground for web3.

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