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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After leaving the Stripe-owned company in 2019, he launched a data startup called Voyance where Singh, who had already exited one of his products — Transferpay.ng , an offline payments startup — was a software engineer. The plan for Mono is to be a global company and getting into YC provides the perfect opportunity to do so.

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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. PalmPay came into Nigeria’s payments scene in June 2019. PalmPay launches in Nigeria on $40M round led by China’s Transsion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

In Nigeria alone, this industry, worth more than $200 billion, consists of over 40 million businesses of varying sizes, according to reports. Other VC firms such as Global Founders Capital (GFC), Golden Palm Investments, DFS Labs, Ulu Ventures, Plug and Play and Soma Cap also participated in the seed round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

And for some countries like Nigeria, customers need to accurately provide their addresses to financial institutions such as banks and fintechs to set up bank and other accounts. OkHi is tackling these challenges in Nigeria with its technology and has raised a $1.5 million seed extension to scale its efforts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

In a market where internet-enabled app-based banking can reach 300 million subscribers on the continent, USSD technology, predominantly offline and used mainly by feature phones, outpaces it with 850 million connections. And so what we’re doing is building for them, because despite having a smartphone, they want to be offline.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

The firm seems to have found an investor as it announced that The Rise Fund , the global impact investing platform of investment firm TPG , will invest $200 million in its mobile money arm. . Typically , these services are present across countries of operation except Nigeria. million and 9.7% ARPU growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Behind such transactions is cross-border commerce, where African brands, via personal shoppers, export their items to a global audience. for relatives back in Nigeria. and Europe to customers globally. Nigeria, Ghana, and the U.S., to shop for and ship luxury items to them. million) in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

VC firms 500 Global and Unicorn Growth Capital co-led the Lagos-based company’s seed round. The company plans to use the investment to expand within its home market Nigeria — where it operates in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja — and outside to Ghana and Kenya. It saw participation from U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With limited access to technology, these restaurants typically resort to using offline methods, including pen and paper, for things like manual reconciliation and inventory management. “We’re seeing fast-paced growth in Nigeria and Kenya with a retention rate of above 95%,” Futi added. . The two-year-old startup raised $1.1

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The market, dominated by incumbents like Toast and upcoming players such as MarginEdge and Brazil’s Zak , has its value pegged at over $70 billion globally and is expected to reach $116 billion in the next four years. As with most technologies, Africa is playing catch up in this food-tech segment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As many edtech companies benefited from the disruption of the pandemic, attracting wads of cash from investors globally, it did feel like African startups were left out. Nigeria remains uLesson’s largest market by far, said Shagaya. In August, uLesson introduced offline centers. 7500 (about $18) to a two-year “ device+plan” of

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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. It also plans to deepen its presence in the countries already present, especially Egypt and Nigeria. They operate online-only or hybrid models (a combination of offline and online settings).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. It also struck a deal with Citi Bank Global to manage their F.X. Nala has built a hassle-free, offline mobile money payment platform for Africa.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And importantly , this is the group that demonstrated their confidence and desire to really solve what is a global problem,” said the CEO. With a similarity to the offline grid, Infinity connects to all the loads in a residence or business place and controls them digitally while providing data and analytics in the process.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These are some of the big global players in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) movement. A shift of preference to buy products on credit at the point-of-sale is on the rise; $680 billion will be spent by global consumers using online POS finance or BNPL over e-commerce channels by 2025. Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, Quadpay. ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Innovations around mobile money and digital payments have allowed for the processing of payments online and offline through USSD or STK commands, over apps or using NFC technology. Mobile money success across the continent is likely due to ease in access brought by advancements in telecommunications technology.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

While Nigeria and Kenya have been at the forefront of African fintech innovation, activities in Egypt are beginning to shape up nicely. An additional $15 million was raised from the same investors led by Dubai-based VC firm Global Ventures. For offline merchants, Paymob has a POS solution where they can receive in-store card payments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. million in seed funding from several investors to blitz scale within and outside Nigeria. However , most have found little luck, especially those in the two-wheeler mobility space.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The mix of positives such as a fast-growing population–the youngest globally–, solid smartphone penetration, increasing crypto adoption, and negatives like low GDP per capita across board and unemployment makes Africa the next ripe ground for web3. Nigeria-based Nestcoin , for instance, raised $6.4

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