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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But startups are also solving local problems. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS.

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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. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down.

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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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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. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria.

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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. Combining data from satellites, ground-based cameras, aerial observations and local weather information, OroraTech detects threats to natural habitats and alerts users in real time.

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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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Nonprofit AF

MAY 28, 2024

A few weeks ago, I came back from a trip to Kenya to learn about and discuss global aid, specifically.

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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

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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo founded Grey in July 2020 as an instant exchange service to help Nigerians exchange foreign currencies in their domiciliary account for local money — the naira. The YC-backed Nigerian fintech has since expanded into East Africa, starting with Kenya.

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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 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 KlashaWire allows small merchants in these six countries to pay their suppliers in their local currencies. The platform will go live in Kenya in the next couple of months, said Anuna. KlashaCart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. " The organization works directly with local ngos and volunteers matching them by interest, need, and skills.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Experts told TechCrunch that most recently announced deals were finalized months before macroeconomic challenges — high-interest rates, war, inflation — hit the global VC landscape. “If these global funds pull out and do less, it also means more room for participation from local funds into the extensions or their pre-Series A.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Electric vehicle startup BasiGo has today announced the launch of its operations in Nairobi, bringing clean energy options to Kenya’s public transport industry, currently dominated by fossil-fuel buses. . The company is planning to enter other markets within the East Africa region after establishing ground in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR has also eaten into the market share of legacy and “on-premise” systems like SAP and Oracle, commonly used by large companies locally. Localization of software also plays a part in SeamlessHR replacing these legacy systems in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

The region happens to be one of the fastest-growing globally; nevertheless, over 200 million people in East Africa do not have access to a bank account or mobile money. Anglophone East Africa is home to over 400 million people, with half under 25.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Madica said it is also keen on reaching underserved markets in the continent, outside the well-established hubs of Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. This is part of its push to ensure a pan-African reach by supporting local, and women founders. Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

For one thing, by the first half of 2022, A frica seemed to defy the global venture funding decline after its startups raised $3 billion, double the amount secured over a similar period the previous year; therefore, a twofold increase by December seemed plausible. Kenya is a close second with $1.1 There was reason to believe so.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. and the E.U., and the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I’m just back from a trip to Kenya and London and as they say in the UK, “cream crackered&# (really tired). But before I rest, I wanted to let you know that it’s Tweetsgiving time again, a global celebration of gratitude and giving lasting 48 hours to support the work of EpicChange. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Our solution is for people in the local market moving into their first market or a company in their fourth market trying to scale their enterprise.” These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The digital banking space in Africa is taking shape as neobanks on the continent grow in numbers like their global counterparts. Finclusion’s debt financing, which makes up the larger share of the overall round, was provided by local currency funds in Eswatini and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. “When these companies evolve to go global, we still count them as African companies.” and Kenya raised $107.6 Those in South Africa claimed $119.7

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Join our global tweet chat on September 18 to discover the latest in social media best practices. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya. Event Reports.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The startup is now expanding its network of local agents that consumers can place orders with. Kapu joins the growing list of startups that are digitizing the informal retail sector in Kenya, including Tushop, which launched last year. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The founders draw on prior experience building API products for local markets in the past. Pngme says it’s operating in Nigeria and Kenya, while Stitch is only in South Africa. In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. “Unlike the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

San Francisco-based venture capital firm Global Founders Capital led the seed round. Y Combinator, Hustle Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, Hack VC and Soma Capital participated, including individual local investors and early backers such as Paga CEO Tayo Oviosu, Remita CEO John Obaro and Magic Fund. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Kenya-based MyHealth Africa , an integrated healthcare platform changing how people access medical services, by connecting patients with local and international health specialists and hospitals, is growing its reach in Africa, and plans to further expand in Middle East and South Asia next year.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

Kate Behncken is corporate vice president, global head of Microsoft Philanthropies, a global, multi-disciplinary team that brings together corporate social responsibility, sales and engineering functions. Do you see the global south playing a more significant role for Microsoft Philanthropies in the future versus now?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

million seed funding, and an additional $1 million commitment for on-chain liquidity, in a round led by early-stage backer TCG Crypto, with participation from a number of funds including BlockTower, Hashed Emergent, Saison Capital, and Global Coin Research. The loans range in size from $200 up to $5,000 …they are really competitively priced.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. This alternative financial infrastructure is one of the largest globally. He also sits on the board of 88mph. PawaPay isn’t far off.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

But despite the proliferation of local and foreign crypto exchanges and the introduction of novel models by up-and-coming web3 platforms, some observers believe there are still notable barriers to using crypto in Africa. .” To that end, the local knowledge and specialized skills of the MARA team is quite promising.”

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