TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula is solving this problem by using technology and data. Social enterprises like One Acre Fund, startups like Apollo Agriculture, and agribusiness giants like Flour Mills and Export Trading Group are also among Pula’s clients. “With our latest funding, now is the time to break into new ground. million farmers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Impact Rooms offers well-rounded solutions for startup problems, from ensuring that they are investor-ready and are matched with the right investors, to raising capital. The Impact Rooms team is currently spread across the world with some of its experts in Kenya , Zambia, Ghana, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Australia, US, UK and Switzerland.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

“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. Union54 (Zambia). Amenli (Egypt). Africa has the lowest insurance penetrations globally.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its expansion phase, backed by a $3 million pre-seed funding, the startup looks to tap some of the biggest distributors and e-commerce players in Ghana, and later Nigeria, to grow beyond Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Google’s third bet from its Africa Investment Fund is in logistics company Lori Systems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s these twin problems that Samir Ibrahim and his co-founder at SunCulture , Charlie Nichols, have spent the last eight years trying to solve. The company also just closed on $14 million in funding to expand its business across Africa. Many families also lack access to reliable and affordable electricity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The startup ecosystem was growing but I could not fail to notice the problem of accelerators. By the end of the one-year venture building program, the startups should have launched a product, onboarded, and had repeat customers, have a defined revenue model, and have raised or are in the process of closing seed funding. “We

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep. In 2006, (RED) was launched by Bono and Bobby Shriver to drive private sector funding to the AIDS fight and generate much-needed awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. He ended up running for about 1,500 miles all the way to Zambia, arriving with nothing but the clothes on his back, about 90 pounds, and showing up at a refugee camp where he knew nobody. He had no idea where his family went.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 23, 2025

But the winner of the $50 million grand prize is low tech: spreading rock dust on small, low-income farms in India, Zambia, and Tanzania. It’s a cheaper way to tackle the problem than direct air capture, which relies on energy-guzzling machines. Now, it will use the XPrize funds to scale up. And it can easily scale up.

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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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