Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Recently, on March 8th, International Womens Day was recognizeda moment that originally sprung from a movement to fight against child labor and sweatshop working conditions. Female genital mutilation still occurs Last month, I traveled to Senegal to see UNICEFs work firsthand. Further, FGM in Senegal hit its lowest point in 2023.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The International Monetary Fund says that as of 2017, only 43% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa were “banked” by way of a traditional bank or mobile money account. Wave , a U.S. ” Going up against incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Wave, an African fintech that offers mobile money services in Senegal and Ivory Coast, laid off about 15% of its workforce last month. The company, which operated a stealth launch two years prior in Senegal, has since raised over $290 million in equity and debt capital funding to date. Germany, Nigeria and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics services. The platform caters to small to large businesses, assisting them with their logistics needs, from storage and international transport to last-mile delivery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs. We have product depth in Nigeria already.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Within this timeline, he interned at several companies in Palo Alto, California. In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. Students are required to spend 50% of their time learning online and the other half at one of GOMYCODE’s network of 20 physical centers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million.

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