TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018. Wasoko allows retailers from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ivory Coast and Senegal to order products from suppliers via SMS or its mobile app for same-day delivery to their stores and shops via a network of logistics drivers.

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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 it became living in Nigeria. Then Kenya.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The company, having raised more than $90 million in total from investors such as Valar Ventures and Target Global, is also planning an expansion outside Africa to Pakistan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

9) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 10) Human Rights Campaign Nonprofit Store :: shop.hrc.org.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The book famine may be receding here in the United States with Bookshare and the increasing advent of universally designed and accessible ebooks, but globally we have only scratched the surface of the need. That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

When I signed up to participate in the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign, I wasn't sure how I would contribute, but when I connected with Carinne Brody at an International Museum of Women event a couple weeks ago, I knew she would be a wonderful person to talk with us about the connection between girls' education and global health.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. to Nigeria and Uganda is currently live for users in those markets. the CEO says that users in Uganda, South Africa and Kenya will be the first to get access next year. In May, it expanded to the U.K.,

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Uganda is no different except for one thing: its amazing NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa, Robert Kibaya. NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. My wife Florence and our four-month old son, Jotham, live in Mukono, Uganda near Lake Victoria.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2015

Alongside Africa is a tiny nonprofit: half a dozen people generally working from their homes in the UK to support an even smaller handful based across Uganda. " Alongside Africa recently received a selection of Skype credit vouchers as a donation via Technology Trust , TechSoup Global's UK partner.

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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. to Nigeria and Uganda. . to Nigeria and Uganda. Economic headwinds have hit the global fintech space hard. The company began making strides outside the continent last year. It expanded to the U.K.

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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. While global investors have previously invested in African startups, their activity seemed more prominent in 2021, probably because of their participation across the board.

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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 have product depth in Nigeria already.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Andela has been pivotal to placing the continent’s tech talent globally. These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. Our Benetech Labs is busy looking for the next tech social enterprises that could make similar global impact. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. However, it’s an opportunity too good to ignore: China-Africa bilateral trade is one of the fastest-growing corridors globally, with a value topping $192 billion in 2019. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

On International Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders, celebrate the recent victories of the human rights community, and recognize the challenges that still lie ahead in the global struggle to advance justice, accountability and an end to impunity. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets.

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TechCrunch

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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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. . The investment will see the mobile money business — Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — valued at $2.65

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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

Thus, by aggregating off-chain and on-chain data into a non-fungible credit report, Masa says it gives lenders, and developers access to the tools needed to evaluate borrower risk and launch lending products for individuals and businesses globally. . “The world we’re building for is where people’s data are owned themselves.

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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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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

The team’s mission is to examine socioeconomic and human rights impacts of AI, publish foundational research, and incubate novel mitigations enabling machine learning (ML) practitioners to advance global equity. This is a research challenge for the field of ML in general and one that is central to our team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Driven by a viable business model, the startup, which also has operations in Uganda and Nigeria, has entered its growth phase and is eyeing more partnerships in a bid to drive mass market insurance adoption in Africa. But it’s a long road ahead of us for sure,” Ted Pantone , Turaco co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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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

JUNE 11, 2021

It did this in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda. However this time around it did so with a strategy pivot in mind: after testing satellite models in Egypt and Ghana, the talent company decided to go forego physical hubs completely and go remote, f irst across Africa in 2020 and globally this year. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The new funding also follows Top HealthTech Startup in Africa award, by the Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa, an exclusive vehicle for the GIIG Africa Fund to find, fund and scale continent’s innovative startups, the startup clinched in June this year. Uganda’s Rocket Health raises $5M to scale telemedicine across Africa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Spain, Kenya, Uganda, Dubai, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Australia, have been using KANNA since its initial product launch 2020, the company said. The global construction management software market is expected to reach $23.9 More than 10,000 corporates in over 10 countries, including the U.K.,

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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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