TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. Both platforms are largely focused on addressing the unique challenges accompanying mobile money, while the others drive innovation around bank and card payments. How big is mobile money in Africa?

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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. Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction revealed that it accepted over 500 applications from startups in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, and Mauritius in its first full year of operation. The Nigerian startups included social commerce startup, Sendbox ; events startup, Festival Coins ; communications-as-a-service platform, Termii. The rest were unannounced.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Yet, ThankUCash , a platform launched in 2018 by Connected Analytics , has managed to thrive, proving that not all is gloom in the deals, coupon and rewards business. Online platforms like ThankUCash present these merchants with an opportunity to delve into rewards and help them retain loyalty and increase revenue.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

His career includes helping scale AZA (Bitpesa), a Nairobi-based platform that leverages bitcoin to facilitate cross-border remittances and where he first got introduced to crypto and blockchain technology. eBay launches its first collection of NFTs in partnership with web3 platform OneOf.

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TechNode

JANUARY 21, 2025

Details: Honor CEO Zhao Ming recently announced his departure from the Huawei spin-off on Chinese social platform Weibo as the company prepares for its upcoming IPO, having served for a decade. Li Jian joined Huawei in 2001 and became a member of the board of supervisors in 2017. In 2021, Li Jian joined the newly independent Honor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The fintech, which refers to itself as a banking-as-a-service platform, says it uses AI to power financial services, particularly lending in emerging markets where over 1.7 According to the current number of eMoney subscribers on its platform with access to loans, JUMO says it has an opportunity to disburse $29 billion a year.

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