Candid

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We took the movement global, which led to the creation in 2022 of the CCF Global Council , of which I am a member. Council members currently include representatives from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada, Kenya, and across the United States.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2018

That said, this year’s Global Trends in Giving Survey includes questions about crowdfunding. M-Changa (Kenya). Now in its third year, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based upon the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries and available in ???????????? , English , français , português , and español.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Sokowatch rebrands to Wasoko as it raises $125M Series B from Tiger Global and Avenir. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Months before Kenya finally banned iris scans by Sam Altman’s crypto startup Worldcoin, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) had ordered its parent company, Tools for Humanity, to stop collecting personal data. The crypto startups said it hopes to resume activities in Kenya soon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

He now lives in rural Kenya working on eye care. Andrew’s focus is on curing blindness: 80% of the people he sees in rural Kenya can have their blindness reversed. I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital and Hans den Bieman, founder and ex-CEO of Mowi, one of the largest salmon businesses globally. And using data, we have built the most efficient operation globally at half the capex of current global leader,” Rehmann told TechCrunch via email. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. The agritech is scouting for growth opportunities in East and West Africa. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Kenya-based fintech company 4G Capital , which provides unsecured credit to micro enterprises, has raised $18.5 million in Series C funding from global private equity firm Lightrock. 4G Capital offers short-term loans to micro-businesses in Kenya and Uganda, who are often locked out by formal banking institutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Techstars NYC just announced the 10 startups participating in this year’s program, making up what Managing Director Jenny Fielding described as the accelerator’s most global class yet. companies, as well as others based in the France, Israel, Kenya, Portugal and the United Kingdom. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. I was blown away by the ubiquity and convenience of mobile money in 2014 when I visited Kenya for the first time. Africa has it different. It’s not a predominantly card continent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

In 2015, founder and CEO Daniel Yu launched Sokowatch in Kenya as an asset-light platform and a marketplace for distributing fast-moving consumer goods from suppliers to retailers. And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018. It was strategic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

A wholesale e-commerce platform based in Kenya, with hubs in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Powered by People , has secured $5 million in seed funding to increase its transaction volume by growing the number of small brands using its B2B online marketplace to reach international buyers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Today, it is doubling down on this effort by announcing the global expansion of its engineering talent. When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies. Then Kenya. Then it became living in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r Fifteen accelerators from key tech hubs, including Uganda, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania will participate in the program.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Sustainability has also been a driver for development: Bristol City Leap , in the UK, is a citywide decarbonization program that will create hundreds of local green jobs; while Lamu Blue Carbon Project , a blue carbon credit program, will preserve mangrove habitats in coastal Kenya.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

for instance, costs about $400 in Kenya. Since 2014, Twiga Foods has been using technology to build supply chains in food and retail distribution on the continent, starting with Kenya. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. We’ve been fairly successful in Kenya.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Many female entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

You can count on one hand the number of funds bigger than Tiger Global. From that fund, Tiger Global made more private investments than any other firm last year — about 340 as of late December — roughly one investment per day, according to CB Insights. However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Union54 , the first Zambian startup backed by Y Combinator, has gotten another major venture capital firm on its term sheet: Tiger Global. Tiger Global declined to comment on the investment. Tiger Global had invested in Nigerian startups Jobberman, Cheki and Wakanow, and South African e-commerce company Takealot this past decade.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. The good news is that trachoma can effectively be eliminated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Africa Health Holdings , a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go toward building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Delle is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a Harvard and Oxford graduate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Global Girlfriend works with over sixty women's cooperatives and NGOs in 20 countries. Her first book, Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide , came out last year. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

When I signed up to participate in the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign, I wasn't sure how I would contribute, but when I connected with Carinne Brody at an International Museum of Women event a couple weeks ago, I knew she would be a wonderful person to talk with us about the connection between girls' education and global health.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. Rouxcel, based in Cape Town, has deployed over 1,200 RhinoWatches trained and optimized using NVIDIA accelerated computing across more than 40 South African reserves.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. Uganda was the first African country the pair decided to test out their two-wheel ride-hailing ambitions and it was the second market globally after Thailand for Uber.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Catalyst Fund , a global accelerator managed by BFA Global , announced the 8th cohort for its Inclusive Fintech Program today. With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The firm co-led the round with Global Ventures, the MENA-focused VC that has backed the likes of Tabby, Helium Health and Paymob. “I Last year, Klasha’s consumer product allowed users in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya to create virtual cards, fund with their respective currencies and send and receive money. Image Credits: Klasha. KlashaCart.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid a global coffee crisis caused mainly by climate change. One truck of 30 tons of coffee has to travel some 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) to reach the port in Kenya to be shipped.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

There are only a handful of African food-tech startups, and a year and a half’s worth of global pandemic has added a couple to that list. When Reetch first came to Kenya from France in November 2020, it wasn’t easy to get affordable ready-to-eat meals. Reetch wants Kune to be the go-to for such programs in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company is planning to enter other markets within the East Africa region after establishing ground in Kenya. “For years, diesel-powered buses have been the only viable solution for bus operators in Kenya. BasiGo’s COO, Alex Mwaura, said they will tap the country’s renewable energy resource to fuel public transportation. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

That might be a thing of the past for some businesses as African payments company Flutterwave today is announcing a collaboration with PayPal to allow PayPal customers globally to pay African merchants through its ‘Pay with PayPal’ feature. Going by this partnership, we can expect the majority of them to be global plays.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months. Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The first electric bus by Swedish-Kenyan EV startup, Opibus , has hit Kenya’s roads marking the beginning of the company’s venture into the mass transit industry. The startup is now running a pilot in readiness for the commercial launch of EV buses in Kenya later this year, and across Africa by the end of 2023. “Our

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The YC-backed Nigerian fintech has since expanded into East Africa, starting with Kenya. CEO Obong told TechCrunch that partnerships with two companies in Kenya: payments giant Cellulant and edtech upstart Moringa accompanied the move. . “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The future of Kenya-based Sky.Garden — an Amazon-style marketplace for third-party merchants to sell electronics, home goods and more — is in the balance after the startup failed to close a round of financing, according to a memo the startup sent out to employees.

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