TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers. Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. Last year, the company had over 40,000 merchants on its platform; now, it is servicing more than 100,000 merchants, according to CEO Onyekachi Izukanne.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

In a market where internet-enabled app-based banking can reach 300 million subscribers on the continent, USSD technology, predominantly offline and used mainly by feature phones, outpaces it with 850 million connections. And so what we’re doing is building for them, because despite having a smartphone, they want to be offline.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. They process about 5 million datasets per hour, the CEO claims. Image Credits: Mono.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2019, the Naspers-owned online marketplace sold its assets in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to the seven-year-old classifieds player. He claims the category has over $3 billion worth of listings out of the platform’s total listing exceeding $10 billion (real estate commands almost $7 billion).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. They operate online-only or hybrid models (a combination of offline and online settings). Students on the platform go through two types of programs. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The startup also launched a one-to-many live class feature with polls and leaderboards and a one-to-one live experience for DevKids, a coding class independent of the core uLesson platform. million questions answered on the platform. In August, uLesson introduced offline centers. DevKids has since been rolled back, though.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

What it says it does : A platform for corporate expense cards and spend management for businesses in Africa. Thus, its platform makes it “easy for these businesses to issue corporate expense cards (Visa for now) and software, mainly for sales and marketing teams, to track and control spending. Location : Nairobi, Kenya.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. Via its ridesharing platform, Shuttlers provides companies with better mobility options for their employees. . million in funding, money also used to acquire a similar player in Ghana.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

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. Earlier this year, Bitmama had fewer than 20,000 users across both platforms.

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