TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. One difference between SIV II and the first fund is that it can writer bigger checks. It will also have a tighter geographical focus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The founders of Tazah Technologies , a B2B agriculture marketplace in Pakistan, met while serving leadership roles at Uber subsidiary Careem. The startup, which launched two months ago in Lahore, announced today it has raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Global Founders Capital and Zayn Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The number of global retailers, department stores and supermarkets operating in Pakistan is increasing, which spells convenience for consumers, but trouble for kiryanas, or small general stores. million pre-seed funding round led by Zayn Capital’s BitRate Fund with participation from Antler and Century Oak Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. PostEx co-founder and CEO Omer Khan told TechCrunch that according to the World Bank, about 100 million adults in Pakistan don’t have a bank account. PostEx will now serve 1.3 It has raised $8.6

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Zola Electric , one such provider, is announcing today that it has closed $90 million in new funding to enter new markets and drive distributed renewable energy. ” The $90 million funding raised is a combination of debt and equity, $45 million each. Brazil, Pakistan, and the Philippines. ” More than 1.5

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TechNode

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Shanghai, Hong Kong December 12, 2024 Gobi Partners, a leading pan-Asian venture capital firm, has officially announced the US$50 M Techxila Fund II alongside the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bank of Punjab (BoP). The MOU with BoP establishes a robust framework to advance Pakistans entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo. Mission: To ensure corporations respect human rights in their global operations. Mission: To fund social entrepreneurs in the developing world through crowdfunding. Fundação Roberto Marinho ● frm.ong. International Corporate Accountability Roundtable ● icar.ngo. United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

After its Egypt launch, Swvl expanded to Kenya, Pakistan, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The company also moved its headquarters to Dubai as part of its strategy to become a global company. Swvl offerings have expanded beyond bus-hailing services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

STV led the round, with Raed Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Upper90 and VentureSouq participating. San Francisco-based venture debt fund Partners for Growth funded Opontia’s debt financing. In terms of the biggest markets for us, it’s Poland, Turkey, Saudi, UAE, Nigeria, after that is Egypt and Pakistan.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Funding rounds in the logistics and infra markets: We went physical-world with our funding round roundup this week. BridgeLinx put together the largest seed round in Pakistan’s history , Releaf is doing incredibly interesting agtech work in Nigeria and Stord’s huge round from earlier in the week brought us to Atlanta.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

This downsizing from the Dubai-based startup adds to the long list of global cross-stage layoffs in what has been a rough month for tech employees. SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. So far, JUMO has served loans worth over $3.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 Funds that participated in the latest round included 4Di Capital, Octerra Capital, VestedWorld, Voltron Capital, Logos Ventures and several other angel investors, bringing the total capital raised by the Lagos-based startup to $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Anyone who has followed global news events of late will have noticed the devastating floods that have engulfed pretty much every corner of the world, from the U.S. and Europe , to Africa , Australia , and Asia, where India and Pakistan have been hit by some of their worst floods in recent memory. ” Startups to the rescue?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. But managing someone online is entirely different than working with someone in person.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A freshly funded player is PixCap , which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. million from a seed funding round. Typical of many SaaS startups today, PixCap’s team of 15 members is located across the world — India, Pakistan, the U.K., Founded in 2020, Singapore-based PixCap just secured $2.8

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

George Durham, Program Manager, Microsoft Global Community Affairs On January 12th, 2010, a devastating earthquake ripped through the Haitian landscape, literally decimating cities like Leogane, Petit Goave, and much of Port-au-Prince. George Durham is a Program Manager with Microsoft’s Global Community Affairs team.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

What size is your staff, where are the offices located, and has the company ever raised funding? Funding is still “friends and family” We never did an institutional round of financing. Viber is quite global. We recently announced partnerships with Axis in Indonesia and Mobilink in Pakistan.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The financing was led by the Steele Foundation for Hope , a nonprofit organization that says it’s focused on finding and funding lasting solutions for some of “humanity’s hardest challenges.”. They receive financial help and support from external partners and organizations like the Global Fund, USAID and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The country ranked fourth on Chainalysis’ Global Crypto Adoption Index , behind only Vietnam, India and Pakistan, and about $8 billion of cryptocurrency passes through the country annually. Nine people have to sign off on the funds being dispersed; NEAR’s Polosukhin is one of the signers. It’s not just Polosukhin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

Jacqueline Novogratz , the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund , is certainly one leader from the field of social innovation whom I find incredibly inspiring and thought-provoking. The purpose of ThinkSocial. But, Jacqueline and Acumen are beacons for more than just social enterprise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. 401(k) provider Human Interest , which recently increased total funding to $500 million, including an investment from BlackRock, has 23 open roles, including in engineering, product and revenue.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. of the Fintech Fund, Jay Ganatra of Infinity Ventures — clearly took their time to provide nuanced answers that help give us a better picture of the current fintech investment landscape.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Ukrainian crisis, climate change, health, and cybersecurity were just some of the topics discussed at this year’s NetHope global summit. Because when you look around at today’s crises — whether that’s the recent floods in Pakistan or providing meals to children during the pandemic — you see nonprofits helping, solving, and rebuilding.

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TechNode

MARCH 20, 2024

According to data from Crunchbase , during 2023, total global venture capital is expected to reach its lowest level in five years at $285 billion, a 38% decrease from the $462 billion seen in 2022. From garnering attention to leading change Londons attractiveness as a tech hub has seen funds pour into the city from around the world.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In a new campaign to raise awareness about the challenges - and opportunities - in a world of 7 billion, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has urged the world to take action to reduce the disparities in which hundreds of millions of people in developing and least developed nations lack the most basic ingredients for a decent life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Bill Somerville makes the search for innovative funding opportunities sound like an Indiana Jones adventure. It's the do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. tools, it was about how Web 2.0

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I Oraan has now raised just over $4 million in funding. I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. Iqbal said. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

A one-year-old startup that is attempting to build the railroads for e-commerce in Pakistan has just secured a mega round of funding in a major boost to the South Asia nation’s nascent startup ecosystem. Airlift operates a quick commerce service in eight cities, including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad in Pakistan.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. Two decades later, disaster recovery remains an essential part of wildfire funding. That is no longer the case.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And today, the company is announcing that it’s just closed a $6 million seed round led by Global Founders Capital that included participation from firms such as Soma Capital, Graph Ventures, Adapt Ventures and OldSlip group. Ridwan and Zen previously worked at companies such as Square, CashApp, Shopify and Uber. Sign up here !

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Egyptian fintech Paymob , which enables merchants to accept digital payments online and in-store, announced today it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, New-York-based venture capital Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point led the round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

An additional $15 million was raised from the same investors led by Dubai-based VC firm Global Ventures. Other investors include Egyptian investment fund A15 and Dutch development bank FMO. Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. In July 2020, Paymob raised $3.5 The total raise of $18.5

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TechNode

MAY 22, 2024

Looking ahead, what key policy changes or initiatives do you believe are essential for driving technology and the adoption of different solutions globally? The secretary-general has already warned that we have gone from global warming to global boiling. How can we further global development? So it is a major challenge.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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