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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

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Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda.

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Nigerian digital freight provider MVX lands $1.3M to help shippers move cargoes faster

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The startup has expanded beyond Nigeria and claims that merchants from the West African country, as well as Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Rwanda, can use its platform to move freight in and out of their countries. For instance, Ghana’s Jetstream offers a similar service and raised $3 million two months ago.

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Nigerian shared mobility startup Shuttlers raises $1.6M, plans pan-African expansion

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Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. The Techstars-backed company is actively fueling its expansion across Nigeria and Ghana having raised more than $1.5

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PalmPay raised $100M Series A last August, claims to have 5 million users

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It provides merchants via its PalmPartner app with online payment and offline POS acquiring services and plans to introduce digital marketing services soon. Since its Nigerian launch in 2019, PalmPay has expanded to Ghana, serving over 5 million users, per information on its website. That’s why it made the push into Ghana.

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Nigerian blockchain payments startup Bitmama closes $2M pre-seed as it scales to new markets

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and Nigeria-based company, which has built a distributed remote team across Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya, says it’s working to democratize Africa’s highly fragmented payment system by leveraging blockchain-based solutions. For instance, we were the first to launch QR codes for offline onboarding.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

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These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. . 10,000, almost ~$20) to participate in AltSchool’s software engineering program, which starts in April. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

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The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. Nala has built a hassle-free, offline mobile money payment platform for Africa. and the E.U.,

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