TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

As fintech services proliferate across different African markets, the need to have sufficient KYC and identity verification processes in place has intensified amid increasing fraud challenges and more stringent regulatory requirements. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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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

MAY 4, 2022

And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

These challenges befall millions of micro-retailers across the continent, and Betastore , a B2B retail marketplace for informal retailers, is working to resolve in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal. million in pre-series A funding from 500 Global, VestedWorld, and Loyal VC. Betastore has to date raised $3 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $9 million in seed funding to scale its operational presence, recruit talent and expand into new markets. The company is led by CEO Nikolai Barnwell , betPawa’s former head of New Markets, Africa. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Since its inception , the Google for Startups Accelerator alumnus claims to have led Africa’s fintech sector in some global firsts from the continent. Third, the first multi-bank direct debit service based on single global mandates. First, the company says it created the world’s first decentralised payment processing network.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. “When these companies evolve to go global, we still count them as African companies.” Regional and gender diversity check.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In Ivory Coast, one of Francophone Africa’s largest mobile money markets, 75% of the population own a mobile money account, compared to 20% who hold bank accounts. Mendy’s participation — his first in Africa and second globally — spotlights athletes’ growing involvement in Africa’s venture capital scene.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. While there are various jobs in every facet of life, tech jobs are currently in high demand in the global economy these days. There are a lot of impact and mass market players. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. It’s demo day season. One year after the rebrand.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And as pressure mounts to find new crop land to support the growth, the world’s eyes are increasingly turning to the African continent as the next potential global bread basket. Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If there’s a sector that has seen the biggest uptick in the number of startups and venture capital in emerging markets since the start of last year, it has to be the digitization of mom and pop stores. Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital and P1 Ventures co-led the round, which is the largest of its kind in Morocco at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. However, it’s noteworthy to point out that deals reported in Africa lag their global counterparts by several weeks or months, so the continent most likely went flat year-on-year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And while the pitches are diverse, some concentrations show key ways that a group of vetted entrepreneurs are thinking about the landscape’s shift in light of finicky venture markets, a downturn, and some public market meltdowns. Swizerland, India, Nigeria, Senegal and other geographies. And this batch supports that realization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Last October, it had 8,000 users from Cameroon, its first market and others including Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Senegal. Nobody is targeting the woman selling the markets or the man driving a motorbike for a living. That’s two similar events across different Francophone markets in quick succession.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

According to the accelerator, six new countries home to these companies are making their appearance for the first time : Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Chile, Brazil and Singapore. We always said YC is founded on the principles that talent is globally distributed. compared to its first list, which included just seven non-U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

We help these startups build their teams, iterate where needed, until we find a market fit product,” said Kamara. In the interim, the lab is planning on establishing a presence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal and Ivory Coast, and considering a franchise model to help it fast track its growth. Not just one,” said Kiwia.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Gates Foundation pledged $315 million over three years to CGIAR , a global research partnership focused on the needs of smallholder farmers, in support of efforts to help them adapt to a surge of climate threats that, in turn, are exacerbating global hunger and poverty. Read more. .

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Phoenix, Arizona: Defining and Targeting Your Audience: Marketing for Nonprofits. Dakar, Senegal: Concours de Présentation des Projets. Bristol, United Kingdom: Tech4Good Global Development. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, August 11, 2017. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We are here to talk about the next wave, what are those emerging trends in nonprofit social media marketing. We’re going to talk about Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing. I am a former development and marketing director. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. I actually loved marketing.

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