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

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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

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

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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. Ventures Platform, Foundation Botnar, DFS Labs and Seedstars also participated in the round, which also included $500,000 debt. Its exploration of new growth avenues is backed by a $2.5

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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

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(The four-year-old digital verification upstart has received less than $500,000 in venture capital funding since its inception as well as $450,000 in grant money from DFS Lab through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Google’s launchpad studio accelerator , and others.) We have product depth in Nigeria already.

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Seedstars launches second fund to invest in 100 startups in emerging markets

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The fund is expected to total $30 million and its limited partners include the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Visa Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and Symbiotics. As part of the fund’s mandate, it will invest up to 25% of the fund in IDA countries, or low-income countries as defined by the World Bank.

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Paris-based VC firm Partech unveils Chapter54 accelerator to help European startups cross into Africa

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“Companies from all sectors are welcome – but they must have business experience, be registered in a European country and active in two European countries, and have a solid financial foundation and regular income,” said KfW. Partech has 15 investments in nine countries across Africa, including Wave; a U.S.

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

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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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