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A Day Trip the Hague, Netherlands: International City of Peace and Justice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Known as the International City of Peace and Justice, there are more than 160 NGOs in Den Haag working to make the world a better place. Next, I stumbled across the Dutch office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and though they were not expecting me, they were very welcoming and a pleasure to spend time with.

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Morocco’s food tech Terraa raises $1.5M led by FoodLabs

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million pre-seed funding in a round led by FoodLabs, a European early-stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. In the next few months, we will build some collection centers in all the major agricultural cities of Morocco. Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5

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Morocco’s Chari valued at $100M in bridge round as it looks to pilot BNPL services

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Like many startups playing in the B2B e-commerce space across the continent, Chari digitizes the largely fragmented FMCG sector in Morocco and Tunisia. Once it gets operations right in Morocco, Chari plans to expand this BNPL service to Tunisia and other French-speaking countries in Africa. But Chari opted not to.

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MaxAB, an Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform for food and grocery supplies, nabs $40M

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Last year, MaxAB , the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving a network of traditional retailers across Egypt and Morocco, raised its $55 million Series A in two tranches ; the latter accompanied its acquisition of the Morocco-based and YC-backed WaysToCap. million orders within this timeframe.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

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But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. What’s a record year of funding without some unicorns? International investors participated from pre-seed to Series E stages. It wasn’t a bad year, though.

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This YC Summer batch features the largest group of African startups yet

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“This is the largest batch we have ever funded and it’s about 50% international. Nigeria leads the way again with five startups, while Egypt has four, Morocco has two, and Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa each have one. Chari (Morocco). Freterium (Morocco). Amenli (Egypt).

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

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The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. Investments did pick up, and from July, VC funding on the continent had a bullish run until December. of the total African VC funding counted by Disrupt Africa.

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