TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit. Float, present in Ghana and Nigeria, intends to use this new capital to set up entities in Kenya and South Africa by Q2 as soon as it gets licenses to operate, Ghansah said on the call.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The general perception of insurance on the continent has been bland for years, and its penetration rate, except South Africa, is subpar. Per a McKinsey study in 2018, Africa’s insurance market stood at a 3% penetration rate; with South Africa excluded, it was 1.12%. The local investors involved are all founders.

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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. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. This alternative financial infrastructure is one of the largest globally. It’s literally a no-brainer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Kwara said that its existing clients have experienced a membership growth of over 19% year on year, three times the global average, as the loan base of credit unions using its technologies went up 46%, about five times the national average. About 175 credit unions are licensed in Kenya to serve nearly 4.1 last year to reach $5.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua says the investment will support its goal to continue building an IP-centric kids’ “edutainment” universe with new Super Sema original content, licensing, merchandise and publishing offerings. So, we thought this was a much-needed space, not only for kids in Africa but globally. Until “Black Panther.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also got our license approvals to go live in the U.S. The chief executive also said NALA, currently present in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa, plans to be live in 12 African countries by the end of the year, including Nigeria. It also struck a deal with Citi Bank Global to manage their F.X.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

The oversubscribed round also included participation from SBI Investment (a subsidiary of SBI Holdings), Global Founders Capital, ThreeD Capital, E.Sun Venture Capital, Systex Corporation, MetaPlanet Holdings, AppWorks, BlackMarble, New Economy Ventures and Seraph Group. Regulating crypto is essential to ensuring its global legitimacy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , mPharma is one of the well-funded startups across Africa raising over $50 million since inception, this includes a Series C round of $17 million, led by UK’s development arm CDC Group, it received last year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

We’re not a manufacturer of drivers, we just defend the technology and we license it,” explains Mattias Scheek, CEO at Mayht. “To put this into perspective, we’ve spoken to around 45 speaker companies globally since the start of this company. “I think the team makes Mayht special. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Saturday, September 9, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

If you look at the history in South Africa, and the movement to end the apartheid regime, or if you look at the revolution in Cuba, where literally the island was essentially a playground for rich people from the United States. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Thanks for listening.

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TechCrunch

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. Africa has the lowest insurance penetrations globally. FloatPays (South Africa). Amenli (Egypt). In Egypt, the insurance penetration rate stands at a minuscule 1%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

And, despite violent protests and attacks on drivers that date well beyond 2017, Uber has continued to operate in countries and cities where local regulators say drivers must have a license to operate a taxi service. Later that year, Macron signed off on a decree relaxing requirements for licensing Uber drivers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are many Robinhood-esque platforms globally because of a growing need to invest in U.S. based Greycroft and Tiger Global co-led the Series A round (it’s the second Tiger Global-led investment announced this month after Ghanaian fintech Float). stocks in different parts of the world. stocks in real-time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. Africa is the poorest region in the world and there is comparatively little going on there in the way of dealing with e-waste, but there are actually some promising developments in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the coming decades, Africa will be a significant growth market for mobile games, driven by the proliferation of technology adoption among the continent’s youthful population. South African music artiste Nasty C (far left); Carry1st co-founder and COO Lucy Hoffman (far right). Image Credits: Carry1st.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 18, 2025

He has weighed in on elections in Germany on behalf of a far-right party, sparred with the government of his native South Africa, and called for the removal of the president of Ukraine , not to mention the two-month siege he has waged against Americas federal bureaucracy. But one country tends to get a pass from the worlds richest man.

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