TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. O ther players in the space facilitating transfer from the U.K. The platform allows payments from the U.K. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. and the E.U.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

His career includes helping scale AZA (Bitpesa), a Nairobi-based platform that leverages bitcoin to facilitate cross-border remittances and where he first got introduced to crypto and blockchain technology. eBay launches its first collection of NFTs in partnership with web3 platform OneOf.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. There are various payment gateways facilitating payments for businesses in Africa, like Flutterwave , DPO Group, Yoco , MFS Africa and Paystack. How big is mobile money in Africa?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Last November, the African cross-border payments company raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. It expanded to the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets. Image Credits: Pezesha.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities. Helium Health.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Klasha , a Lagos and San Francisco-based startup, sees a niche in cross-border commerce and provides multiple integrations and APIs to facilitate transactions in that space. The checkout solution can be integrated into any e-commerce platform, the company said. Today, it has raised $2.4 million in seed to scale.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Klasha makes revenue via sales commissions and subscriptions merchants pay to use the platform for analytics. Last year, Klasha’s consumer product allowed users in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya to create virtual cards, fund with their respective currencies and send and receive money. Image Credits: Klasha. KlashaCart.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A month later, the startup closed a $500,000 pre-seed investment from early-stage investors like Lateral Capital , Ventures Platform , Golden Palm Investments and Rally Cap. And to that end, Mono has partnered with two of Nigeria’s leading savings and investment platforms to roll out the service. . Image Credits: Mono.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. At the time, most fintechs and banks did not recognize the need for using bank payments to facilitate online transactions. The platform, which caters to more than 47 million bank account holders, typically works this way.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kuda claims to have up to 5 million users, more than thrice the number it had last August during its $55 million Series B round , money it raised to enter into other African countries like Ghana and Uganda this year. As such, s ervices provided to Nigerian users are facilitated via its subsidiary, Kuda MFB Limited. down the line.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Some interesting acquisitions include TLcom-backed Kenyan consumer experience platform Ajua buying WayaWaya ; Nigerian bus booking and Techstars-backed Treepz expanding into Ghana and Ugabus after getting Stabus and Ugabus ; and Flutterwave making a foray into the creator economy space with the Disha acquisition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Telcos and banks dominate this mass market, providing the tech infrastructure that facilitates these code-based transactions. Take Nigeria, for instance, where the average banked customer has three to five bank accounts and w hile some people use bank applications or fintech platforms to make online transactions, others rely on USSD codes.

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Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We Bentley Motors’ new digital platform is a crucial component of its goal to become a leader of sustainable luxury mobility.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. We might not wait long as Okra is currently in beta in Kenya and South Africa, and Mono is planning an expansion into Ghana and Kenya before the end of the year. “Unlike the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

What it says it does : A platform for corporate expense cards and spend management for businesses in Africa. Thus, its platform makes it “easy for these businesses to issue corporate expense cards (Visa for now) and software, mainly for sales and marketing teams, to track and control spending. Location : Nairobi, Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. What is the best blog platform for mobile bloggers? What video hosting platforms support cell phones? I remember being inspired by it. mobile posting.

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JULY 6, 2022

We see many opportunities to unlock value for users across all the categories on our platform and to expand into new countries, and we are looking forward to leveraging Autochek’s market leading loans product and expertise to deliver more transformative experiences for our users,” said Papet in a statement. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

and Nigeria-based company, which has built a distributed remote team across Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, says it’s working to democratize Africa’s highly fragmented payment system by leveraging blockchain-based solutions. Earlier this year, Bitmama had fewer than 20,000 users across both platforms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are many Robinhood-esque platforms globally because of a growing need to invest in U.S. million to facilitate it, the investment firm is announcing that it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. In 2021, repeat depositors made up 85% of deposits on the Bamboo platform. The next market for Bamboo is Ghana.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

My current investor pool, which was led by women at Greycroft and Seedcamp, invested because of the opportunity of solving a problem continent-wide and the prospect of facilitating cross-border commerce through modern technology. Lami is a B2B2C insurance-as-a-service platform and API. to scale API insurance platform across Africa.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the creative writing space, Google’s PAIR and Magenta teams developed a novel prototype for creative writing, and facilitated a writers' workshop to explore the potential and limits of AI to assist creative writing. The app is available to English speakers 18+ in Australia, Canada, Ghana, India, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.

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