TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

The new funding brings the total seed amount raised by the startup to $7 million. Kwara, which also has a presence in South Africa and the Philippines, has grown its clientele base to 120 from 50 at the end of 2021, maintaining a 100% customer retention — a proof of the value it delivers to its clients.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Per reports , major regional exchanges in Africa have raised over $80 billion in equity capital markets and $240 billion in debt capital markets. To bolster its efforts, it has also raised $1.6 That was the year MTN Ghana, a local telecom operator, went public in the West African country after raising about $237 million. “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. So, we thought this was a much-needed space, not only for kids in Africa but globally. The company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In Africa, one startup is carving a niche for itself. The company, based in South Africa, has raised $3 million in seed funding to scale outside Africa and build the infrastructure for the digital insurance economy. However, it also powers affinity insurance players; some of the largest in South Africa actually.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users. and the E.U., country, probably France.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The general perception of insurance on the continent has been bland for years, and its penetration rate, except South Africa, is subpar. Per a McKinsey study in 2018, Africa’s insurance market stood at a 3% penetration rate; with South Africa excluded, it was 1.12%. In the news today is one such company: Casava.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The average penetration rate for insurance in Africa is between 3% to 5%. 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. Life after YC has been great for Amenli.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The startup has raised $4 million in a seed round to build a neobank app that will enable individuals to sign-up with their preferred credit unions to access various financial services. “We Kwara has over the last year entered South Africa and Philippines, as the demand for its services grew beyond Kenya. last year to reach $5.6

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Following two years of significant growth and raising $2.4 million to facilitate it, the investment firm is announcing that it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. Then in August, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) accused them of operating without licenses as asset management companies and “utilizing F.X.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

The Taipei-headquartered company announced today it has raised $17 million in pre-Series A funding led by CDIB Capital Group. Part of the new round will be use to apply for financial licenses in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa, and partner with banks and financial institutions, like payment gateways. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , mPharma is one of the well-funded startups across Africa raising over $50 million since inception, this includes a Series C round of $17 million, led by UK’s development arm CDC Group, it received last year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

We’re not a manufacturer of drivers, we just defend the technology and we license it,” explains Mattias Scheek, CEO at Mayht. There are two people who formerly worked at Philips in the licensing department. One of them actually led the licensing department and made that side of Philips a huge business.

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JULY 3, 2006

One: organizing immigrant women, mostly Latinas, who are working as domestic workers cleaning the houses and raising the kids, mostly of rich folks. At the end of the negotiation, the family raised her pay to 14 dollars an hour. In the last couple of years, we've begun two new organizing projects.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

And as g amers in sub-Saharan Africa increase to more than 180 million in the next five years, per a report, s tartups such as South Africa-based Carry1st are strategically positioning themselves for this successive growth phase in the industry. Image Credits: Carry1st.

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MARCH 18, 2025

He has weighed in on elections in Germany on behalf of a far-right party, sparred with the government of his native South Africa, and called for the removal of the president of Ukraine , not to mention the two-month siege he has waged against Americas federal bureaucracy. But one country tends to get a pass from the worlds richest man.

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