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Senegal’s logistics tech startup Chargel raises $2.5M seed funding

TechCrunch

We realized that there were so many inefficiencies, and that the logistics sector in Senegal was so fragmented, but we felt that technology could help. In its next phase of growth, it is opening up its platform to more clients, as it had limited access to 10 companies. And that is how their logistics tech startup, Chargel , was born.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds. Pula co-founders and Co-CEOs (Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru).

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YouTubers’ #TeamTrees campaign overcame big hurdles in its first year

The Verge

Image: Arbor Day Foundation. A year after YouTubers launched a campaign to raise enough money to plant 20 million trees, the campaign is in a critical phase: planting the trees and ensuring their survival. The foundation partners with other organizations and forest services around the world that plant the trees. million planted.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

Tableau

Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. 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 Neal Myrick. Kristin Adderson. June 13, 2021 - 5:55pm. June 13, 2021.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

Tableau

Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. 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 Neal Myrick. Kristin Adderson. June 13, 2021 - 5:55pm. June 13, 2021.

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