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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

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The new funding, mPharma co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson told TechCrunch, will be used to build the startup’s data infrastructure, triple its talent pool over the next three years and support expansion plans in its current and new markets.

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Using Technology to Build Transparency That Brings Long-Term Support

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Also, boards or watchdog agencies govern nonprofits to ensure donations are well-spent. Funds are generally categorized as “restricted” or “unrestricted,” which determines how and where they’re allocated. It also simplifies messaging: donors can fund either operations or projects, period.

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

TechCrunch

Also, we work together with government subsidy programs since they’re also interested in protecting their farmers.” Its clientele includes the likes of the World Food Programme and Central Bank of Nigeria as well as the Zambian and Kenyan governments. “With our latest funding, now is the time to break into new ground.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th. We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact.

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FSD Africa expands insurtech accelerator program to Ghana and Nigeria

TechCrunch

funded Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa. The organization is working with eight insurance regulators including those of Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tanzania to build an environment that bolsters insurtech innovation across the continent. “It

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Swoop Aero’s drones hit a million items delivered as the company raises for expansion

TechCrunch

Australian drone logistics company Swoop Aero is celebrating new milestones and funding as it plans its expansion to more markets. “If you’re the minister of a country, whether it’s Austrialia or Malawi, you say ‘we want to be able to do 300 high-priority deliveries a month.’ where regulations are tight.

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Health tech startup mPharma acquires Vine Pharmacy, enters Uganda

TechCrunch

mPharma disclosed to TechCrunch that it has acquired a 55 percent stake previously held by the Abraaj Group, a private equity firm that collapsed after investors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sounded an alarm over the administration of its $1 billion healthcare fund. s development finance institution, last year.

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