TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

.” In a statement, Agboola gives credit to the company’s more than 300 staff, investors, customers and regulatory bodies like the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for creating the backbone for Flutterwave’s success. We got our license and scaled our business because of a favourable regime that allowed it to be possible.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

” The company, which currently offers mobile-first banking services in Nigeria, has picked up $25 million in a Series A being led by Valar Ventures, the firm co-founded and backed by Peter Thiel, with Target Global and other unnamed investors participating. “We closed February at $2.2 ” Image Credits: Kuda.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

of its adult population had one form of insurance policy in Nigeria as of 2018. The self-described “Nigeria’s first 100% digital insurance company” has raised a $4 million pre-seed round. Unlike the former, insurance around job loss is relatively uncommon in Nigeria. In the news today is one such company: Casava.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. Barnwell tells TechCrunch that although these transaction volumes look impressive, pawaPay would have done more if not for regulatory hurdles and licensing approaches in each market. .

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APRIL 26, 2023

While the platform has added depth in some markets with more advanced fintech regions, such as Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, where it can query against government databases, such depth is lacking in other markets, including Francophone Africa. We have product depth in Nigeria already.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Sudo Africa , a fintech that provides a card-issuing API for developers and businesses in Nigeria, has raised $3.7 At some point, we wanted to issue cards and worked with one of the local banks in Nigeria,” said CEO Bakori. million in pre-seed funding. San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Agency banking is big business in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Founded by Olaoluwa Awojoodu , the company’s agent banking platform, PayCentre Africa, is present in Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo. ” In Nigeria, over 42 million adults who live in rural areas lack basic banking services. .

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Float, present in Ghana and Nigeria, intends to use this new capital to set up entities in Kenya and South Africa by Q2 as soon as it gets licenses to operate, Ghansah said on the call. “And then, like it’s flexible in terms of how you can just take it out for a day and then repay the next day, for example.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Before FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (known as “SBF”) saw his $32 billion crypto behemoth evaporate this month, FTX was processing billions of dollars monthly and planned to set up an office in Nigeria, according to two people familiar with the company’s dealings. I fear for crypto companies in Nigeria.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The company is targeting an initial launch in July this year in Kenya and Nigeria, the two countries it is headquartered in. While shuttling between Nigeria (his hometown) and the U.S., Its flagship product is a consumer crypto-brokerage app that allows users to buy, send, sell and withdraw fiat and crypto assets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

” Next, Identitypass approached various agencies and authorities countrywide to get licenses and certifications needed for authorizing checks across a full spectrum of verification points. These businesses are based in Nigeria, the U.K., YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria. Kenya, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

France, South Africa and Nigeria. But also today we have had to decline some drivers for car-based services because they don’t have the right licenses, but now we can offer them to carry goods on bikes, which doesn’t require that license at all. We can offer something to drivers that we weren’t able to do.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But from a purely geographical standpoint, five are based in Nigeria, one each are from Kenya and Ghana, and one, though Africa-focused, is Geneva-based. One reason it attracts the most VC dollars is how expensive building a fintech product can be when factors such as integration, compliance and licensing are considered.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

While he worked as a Nigeria country manager for JUMO, a South African fintech that offers credit infrastructure to large mobile money operators across Africa, Adeyemi quit last year to launch Anchor , another fintech where he is also chief executive, this February.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Though headquartered in Los Angeles, the company is basically remote, with more than 300 employees across its major hubs in LA, Lagos, Nigeria, Singapore and Europe. The company is also investing in additional product categories, new brands and potentially licensing its proprietary software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company is the first bank in South Africa to be fully operated off a cloud-based infrastructure network and the first to be granted a commercial banking license in the country since 1999. Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa. TymeBank isn’t indigenously South African though.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

South Africa makes up a large bulk of it; without it, the continent is on a 1% to 2% rate even with other developed technology and financial markets like Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. It also provides APIs to other insurance companies banking on its position as the first licensed digital insurance broker in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also got our license approvals to go live in the U.S. The chief executive also said NALA, currently present in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa, plans to be live in 12 African countries by the end of the year, including Nigeria. “Our core customer base is the diaspora right now who live in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Nigeria is a silo, same with Ghana, Kenya and South Africa etc. The fintech, launched in 2020, is eyeing capital markets in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt. SecondSTAX is the third circle and acts as a gateway to the fourth circle, the exchanges. You have exchanges where the securities are traded in each country.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

As a first-party e-commerce business, Alerzo had a headcount of more than 2,000 employees (half of which worked full-time) across Nigeria before the first layoffs last September, which affected 5% of its full-time workforce. This is the company’s second round of layoffs in seven months.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Digital lenders that share personal data of loan defaulters, with third parties, risk license withdrawal in Kenya after lawmakers added a clause – granting the banking regulator the mandate to revoke permits of operators who breach customer confidentiality – to the new law passed by the country’s National Assembly. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The big difference (for now): Momento says it is working through the regulatory process to be a fully licensed insurance carrier; Clupp appears to be working with a fully licensed insurance carrier to offer its products (Mapfre for cars and HDI for motorcycles). beU delivery and HeyFood. Dojah and Identity Pass.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

African payments tech startup Flutterwave has been granted a Switching and Processing License by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) — which is (per the company) “widely regarded as CBN’s most valuable payments processing license,” writes TC’s Tage Kene-Okafor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The doctor will also be in a place to request for rapid diagnostics tests to be carried out, a service that will be supported by a licensed community health nurse as the medic consults remotely. It is raising more funding to further grow its business across the continent.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Moreover, through third party licensing for Mergdata — which is now used by 180 clients including governments, non-governmental organizations and agri-companies to ensure transparency in their supply chain and traceability — the agtech has digitized over 1 million farmers in 26 countries across the globe.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

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MARCH 29, 2016

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AUGUST 1, 2017

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

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MAY 1, 2017

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AUGUST 1, 2016

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