TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Thunes’ last funding announcement was in September 2020 a $60 million Series B led by Helios Investment Partners. For example, Helios focuses on African companies and Thunes used part of its funding from the firm to build teams in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Other investors include GGV Capital and Checkout.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Just last year a team of data scientists under Zindi used machine learning to improve air quality monitoring in Kampala as another group helped Zimnat, an insurance company in Zimbabwe predict customer behavior — especially on who was likely to leave and the possible interventions that would make them stay. Photo Credits : Zindi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

million led by Entrada Ventures and MetaProp, bringing its total funding to $6.7 Last year, Black founders raised just 1% of all venture capital funding, a slight dip from the record 1.3% Born in Zimbabwe, he was a childhood pen pal of the late Michael Tyler Fisher , a member of the billionaire Fisher Family real estate dynasty.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Private equity fund AfricInvest FIVE co-led the Series C round with existing investors Goodwell Investments and LUN Partners Group. New investors CommerzVentures, Allan Gray Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest also joined the round , while ShoreCap III returned as an existing investor with other funds.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2012

Expert guests include: Jody Dilday ( @jdilday ), executive director of Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas ( @SPSFNWA ), has spent her career raising awareness and support for nonprofit organizations. Wednesday, March 21, 11 a.m. Pacific time. Hashtag: #NPLive. RSVP to join the live show.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. Although data from institutional philanthropy is still incomplete, there is enough information to indicate a considerable decline from $76 billion in collective funding in 2018. . Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of using the Internet to aggregate a crowd to fund a project is a modern complement to, if not a full-on replacement for, traditional fundraising methods that are aging badly in the non-profit space. Build a school in Zimbabwe. Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes WHY CROWDFUNDING IS VITAL. Even email is falling off.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Dear Sophie, I founded a startup in Zimbabwe a few years ago. if my passport expires in 5 months? I planned to visit the United States for the first time next month to check out the market and applied for a visitor visa. I’m planning to stay in the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

It is great when people know that their money is going directly to the journalists, directly funding somebody's life and somebody's well being. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco. We don't take government or corporate dollars for any of our funding through grants, or anything else.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Molly came and spoke to our entire company about their programs, where funding was most needed, and even had us perform some soccer drills they do with their kids. They are an awesome organization that was founded by two professional “futball” players from Zimbabwe. This year, they’ve selected Grassroot Soccer.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States raised $20,000 in 6 days , all through their cause, to fund a team of journalists documenting the seal slaughter in Canada. And Camfed raised $4,500 to build a roof on a school in Malawi , then turned around and funded another $3,386 project to give shoes to schoolgirls in Zimbabwe. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. Eighteen Global Fund for Women grantees are profiled in the book, and Gianturco is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention. PG: Well, yes.

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