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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Image Credits: Wave.
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.
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TechCrunch
MAY 3, 2022
Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa. Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries.
TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2022
Wave, an African fintech that offers mobile money services in Senegal and Ivory Coast, laid off about 15% of its workforce last month. The company, which operated a stealth launch two years prior in Senegal, has since raised over $290 million in equity and debt capital funding to date. Germany, Nigeria and the U.K.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics services. Participating investors include existing funds Uma Ventures and Saviu Ventures and new investors Yamaha Motor, LoftyInc Capital, Proparco, Google Ventures, To.org, Kepple Ventures and Enza Capital.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Then, the disparities between venture funding studies were stunningly clear. . Partech Africa covers equity deals in tech and digital spaces and funding rounds higher than $200,000. billion in total estimated funding — $4.65 It’s more than a 250% increase from last year’s total funding of $1.3 billion to $1.5
TechCrunch
APRIL 26, 2023
On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs. We have product depth in Nigeria already.
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