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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

million in seed funding, as well as the launch of a cloud-based AI platform — which allows users to build with large language models. . It is looking to expand its team of 33, which is currently spread across nine countries, including Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. Ohio-based startup Mantium has today announced closing $12.75

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Fintech lender and private equity firm Cauris was the sole provider of the debt financing while the equity investors include Octerra, Wuri Ventures, Seed9, The MBA Fund, French development institution Proparco and ASCVC, a venture fund founded by executives of the supply chain visibility platform Project44.

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MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. Six years ago, it was heavily focused on East Africa, but having pulled out of Tanzania, M-KOPA is present in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana. A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50

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MARCH 23, 2021

During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped. Beattie says to TechCrunch that while he saw many exciting new tests in development in the US, he didn’t see the same in Ghana.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Fez Delivery , a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors. We have the technology and still own 30% of the assets on our platform.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

“And putting those two things together, we’ve been able to create a platform tailored to the realities of today. But also really pushing towards what’s possible for business owners in Ghana and Nigeria, who has a smartphone in their pocket.”. OZÉ boasts of a client base of more than 125,000 business owners in Ghana and Nigeria.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. While general e-commerce activities between African shoppers and global brands have occurred informally via long-held relationships, several platforms have used tech to centralize these processes across various shopping brackets.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. One way Adeseun reckons that might happen is if B2B e-commerce platforms in retail take an interest in pharmaceutical and health-based products.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Via its ridesharing platform, Shuttlers provides companies with better mobility options for their employees. . Through the platform, commuters can book a seat on one of the buses that goes along predetermined and scheduled routes. million in funding, money also used to acquire a similar player in Ghana.

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JULY 19, 2021

Several platforms have sprung forth to bring stock trading opportunities in their respective markets. In Nigeria, at least four platforms offer both local and foreign stocks to individuals. Chaka is one such platform. Egyptian social e-commerce platform Taager raises $6.4M Robinhood is no exception. led by 4DX Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The YC-backed food procurement platform has doubled down on the pivot — instrumental to the company’s $3.2 Its platform, described as a series of stacks, is designed to mitigate losses and help food businesses thrive. Since businesses don’t have access to accurate data, they usually buy what they don’t need.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

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. The company allows traditional retailers in Morocco and some parts of North Africa to order consumer goods via its platform and handles free delivery to their stores. Amenli (Egypt).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Over the past three years, some platforms have looked to solve this problem. One such platform is Pngme. based unified financial data platform announced its seed round of $3 million. It further reflects the continued customer growth from banks, fintechs, credit bureaus and microfinance banks in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. In May, it expanded to the U.K.,

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MAY 4, 2022

We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added. According to Norebase, companies that use its platform can be incorporated in any African country within “a few minutes” and expand to new locations in a week.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Further checks in Crunchbase and Tracxn--platforms that track funding rounds in startups and private companies globally–reveal that the company closed the round in August 2021. Since its Nigerian launch in 2019, PalmPay has expanded to Ghana, serving over 5 million users, per information on its website.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The platform, which will allow broker-dealers, asset managers, pension funds, and institutional investors to access markets outside their own country, is announcing its launch to the public today. That was the year MTN Ghana, a local telecom operator, went public in the West African country after raising about $237 million. “I

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Sabi is an attempt at platforming the informal sector and African trade via various online and offline channels. But it provides visibility into these assets across the entire value chain from the demand and supply side and controls on a single platform. Nigeria’s Rensource raises $20M to power African markets by solar.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Its business model revolved around providing a support vessel booking platform that matched vessel chartering requests made by operators with available Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs). . What followed was the launch of MVXtransit, a digital freight booking platform, helping cargo owners find deals on moving containers across Nigeria.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The funding comes at a time when Farmerline, which has operations across Ghana, is setting up shop in Ivory Coast as it continues its expansion across West Africa. We are thrilled to support Farmerline Group and smallholder communities across Ghana and Ivory Coast.”. The new funding brings the total amount raised in the round to $14.4

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The deal closed almost a year after Autochek bought Cheki Ghana and Cheki Nigeria to start its business. . Autochek’s platform operates a marketplace-driven model with a focus on financing and after-sales. Dealerships, banks and the end consumers (those who buy cars on the platform). for car sales and service platform.

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MARCH 2, 2022

It is this missing connection that Emtech , a central bank digital infrastructure provider, is looking to fill through its digital regulatory platform, which aims to fast-track the reach of fintech products to market. Emtech has now moved into production following the successful pilot in Ghana last year.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

But even with these additional features tailored to a Nigerian audience, Mono is going after other markets like Ghana and Kenya, first mentioned by the CEO in May. Mono has delivered on only Ghana, for now, piloting with a few banks and fintechs such as Oze and Tranzo.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last March, the Ghana-founded and New York–headquartered Dash raised $32.8 By March of 2022, five months after its first seed tranche, Dash’s total processing volume topped $1 billion and had acquired a million users from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, Boampong told TechCrunch in the March interview. Kinyua assumes the role of interim CEO.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Its AI-enabled grid management platform, Adora, solves one of two fundamental problems power distribution companies face in Africa. The other problem is data-focused, tackled by the company’s proprietary platform called Customer and Asset Information Management system (CAIMs). Bim Adisa (CEO).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Participating investors include XYZ Ventures, Village Global, Musha Ventures, Voltron Capital, Ventures Platform and Paystack CEO Shola Akinlade. Earnipay founder and CEO Nonso Onwuzulike tried this while running Reaval, a Ghana-based recycling business he started on the side in 2019.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

It is also rolling out an e-commerce platform for pharmaceuticals. “We Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. mPharma is also present in Gabon where it has a contract with the government to build a drug supply chain infrastructure.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Other features on the platform include invoice advance, opening a business account, payment links, managing budgets and spend cards. With the latter, Float wants small businesses to use its platform to tap into their revenues instantly instead of using gateways, which take days to settle. “So

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage. Jetstream allows businesses to export goods across borders and access trade financing in Nigeria and Ghana. Here are the startups in the 8th cohort.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Since leaving the university in 2014, he has co-founded several tech startups but made his mark globally with OMG Digital, a startup with offices in Ghana and Nigeria that wanted to become the “ BuzzFeed of Africa.” You can think of Float as a really well-built cash management platform. Ghansah is a serial entrepreneur.

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

The startup has today announced entry of RejaReja, the B2B retail marketplace, into Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, after successful pilot programs, coming about two months after it grew beyond Kenya by launching in Nigeria. Mbaabu said that they aim to grow their RejaReja merchants tenfold to 1 million by the end of next year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The B2B e-commerce food distribution platform claims that over 100,000 customers use its services across Kenya while delivering more than 600 metric tons of product to 10,000+ retailers daily. . After that, Twiga will look at other markets — Cote d’Ivoire, DRC Congo, Ghana and Nigeria.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Some gig platforms have tried to embed financial services into their systems, but they are limited. The company, which describes itself as a one-stop shop financial services platform, has closed a $3 million seed in debt and equity round. The gig platforms are primarily responsible for the former. ImaliPay is an example.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency. It also recently expanded into Nigeria, Ghana and Vietnam, among other markets. The app currently has more than 75,000 users in over 60 countries.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. The platform allows payments from the U.K. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. Accel-backed mobile money platform NALA to start offering remittance services to East Africa.

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