Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. From the Heart: Just like Tweetsgiving, and everything that Mama Lucy is doing in Tanzania, the To Mama with Love campaign is all from the heart.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. Find out more in the interview below! What is TweetsGiving? Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. Find out more in the interview below! What is TweetsGiving? Where do the funds go?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2021

Wingcopter has also established a useful hedge regarding its service business, not only by being its own hardware supplier, but also by having worked closely with many global flight regulators on their regulatory process through the early days of commercial drone flights. -based drone production.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Africa has it different.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. We’re scaling that up, not just being in Tanzania and Kenya and Uganda as a consumer-facing product. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen. and the E.U.,

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APRIL 27, 2022

It also has a presence in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria, where it says its customers tripled over the last one year. This investment in Sun King marks an incredible inflection point for the global off-grid solar industry,” said Walsh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the past two years, from the gratitude of thousands, this global event has built two classrooms and a library in Arusha, Tanzania, where the twitterkids, led by local changemaker Mama Lucy Kamptoni, learn and grow at one of the best primary schools in their country.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The commitment is contained under the 24/7 Carbon-free Energy Compact , by leading energy buyers, suppliers, equipment manufacturers and governments, representing a global effort to accelerate the uptake of carbon-free electricity as a way of averting the perilous effects of climate change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do. Every Thanksgiving since, Stacey has launched a gratitude campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. Mama Lucy is an Epic Change fellow, and has been an invited speaker at the European Summit for Global Transformation.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Perhaps that explains the appeal of community Giving Days or participating in global giving days like GivingTuesday. We are starting to see a rise of crowd funding projects done by and for kids, perhaps as part of the trend of “ PhilanthroTeens ” or “PhilanthroKids.” Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity.

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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 And in turn, give the rest of the world access to African consumers on the ground who want and need these goods globally.”. KlashaCart.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

First-time investors OP Finnfund Global and Endeavor Catalyst Fund participated as well. “We Two years on, the company, which now has more than 1,000 employees, is ready to make those moves and is expanding to other East African markets, Uganda and Tanzania, before the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso. This incorporation-as-a-service plugin positions Norebase as a global player in the trade tech space. It’s one of the few companies offering such services, including Firstbase.

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JULY 19, 2022

based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq. The investment from Visa came as one of the incentives for Bloom’s participation in the global card scheme’s Fintech Fast Track Program. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Technical in Tanzania. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Below, Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. But the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania have a really healthy gut microbiome, and they dont eat anything like kimchi or kefir, let alone manufactured so-called gut-boosters. They only eat what they have gathered that day.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

If you are in Tanzania or Liberia, nothing is going to offend you more than only being served Nigerian, Ghanaian, or South African songs. As Western markets reach saturation, most future streaming growth will come from Global South regions, of which Africa is an important part, she argues.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

In an email sent from Marketforce CEO Tesh Mbaabu and obtained by TechCrunch, the layoffs were a part of a reorganization strategy in Kenya, one of its five markets which include Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. . As the global venture capital market slows, Africa charts its own course.

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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. This funding will allow the Kenyan-based company to expand its business into Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania. The company recorded a 130% CAGR between 2017 to 2021.

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MARCH 10, 2021

The firm has a presence in Kenya, South African and Tanzania, but its core markets remain Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The managing partner says Savannah is big on startups that can scale across regions in Africa — Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda in East Africa; Ivory Coast and Ghana in West Africa; and globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. Economic headwinds have hit the global fintech space hard. CEO Ham Serunjogi founded Chipper Cash with Maijid Moujaled in 2018 to offer a no-fee peer-to-peer cross-border payment service in Africa via its app.

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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. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Musoma, Tanzania: Adobe Spark: Storytelling for Nonprofits. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Last February, he revealed that this involvement led him to offer short-term crypto loans to entrepreneurs, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania — and traditional loans via Pngme before pivoting to an open finance play. Masa Finance is the result of these collective ventures. ” . .

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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. The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In terms of active operational markets, though, the fintech is present in six African markets — Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ivory Coast and South Asian country Pakistan. Presently, the fintech only states Cape Town, Nairobi, Porto and London as its primary operational and tech hubs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Although it is yet to launch in the country, Obong said Uganda is in Grey’s regional purview as well as fellow East African country Tanzania; the fintech will expand into the latter within a month, he added. Grey claims to have about 100,000 individual users, and since the beginning of the year, its transaction volumes have increased by 200%.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hunger is a global issue that affects everyone, everywhere. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. Supporting them is not only essential to the global community’s food supply, but also to the day-to-day well-being of the communities in which they work and live. Why Small-Scale Farmers? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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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. His father was born in Tanzania and his mother grew up in Kenya and they eventually found their way to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Wowzi plans to use the new investment to set up operations in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, seeking growth opportunities beyond Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, where it currently has a physical presence. It plans to use these new hubs to enter more countries across the continent. “We

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

of Africans are insured , which is less than half the global average of 6.3%, making it the least insured continent in the world. It is used by over 100 companies, including banks, fintechs, logistics and e-commerce platforms across eight African markets: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Morocco and Egypt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

The first fund invested in 30 countries, and the second fund will also have a global outlook, but it will focus on one to three countries in each region. Its view on Africa will be more distributed; it has already done investments in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria. Africa’s startup market is bucking the global slowdown.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Pangani, Tanzania: Social Media Surgery: Instagram for Farmers and Livestock Keepers. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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