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%. 250 (~$0.5) – ?300($0.6)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The funding will help the Techstars-backed company expand to new markets such as Tanzania and South Africa, get the licenses needed to operate there, build out its team, invest in technology and launch new features. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

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

AUGUST 31, 2021

Nigeria leads the way again with five startups, while Egypt has four, Morocco has two, and Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa each have one. Africa has the lowest insurance penetrations globally. FloatPays (South Africa). Here’s the list of African startups that made it to YC S21 in alphabetical order.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Document verification and face recognition and matching comprise Smile Identity’s base-level product that works across Africa. In a February interview , Straub noted that Smile Identity would use the growth capital it had secured to expand its KYC capabilities into the market, among other things.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Kwara has over the last year entered South Africa and Philippines, as the demand for its services grew beyond Kenya. About 175 credit unions are licensed in Kenya to serve nearly 4.1 According to Kenya’s monetary authority, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), the total assets of licensed credit unions grew 13.5%

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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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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The feature was announced during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference as part of a new subscription bundle called iCloud Plus.

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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.

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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

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. and the E.U., country, probably France.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. In Kenya, only 175 deposit-taking saccos are licensed, as a vast majority remain unregulated.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua says the investment will support its goal to continue building an IP-centric kids’ “edutainment” universe with new Super Sema original content, licensing, merchandise and publishing offerings. Other investors include EchoVC, firstminute Capital and Auxxo Female Catalyst. Immediate plans include launching a U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2021

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 XREX’s last funding was a $7 million seed round in 2019.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

And, despite violent protests and attacks on drivers that date well beyond 2017, Uber has continued to operate in countries and cities where local regulators say drivers must have a license to operate a taxi service. Later that year, Macron signed off on a decree relaxing requirements for licensing Uber drivers.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

China does have a national law called The Management Regulations for Recycling and Disposing of Consumer Electronics and Electronic Waste that bans e-waste and imports, and requires processors to be licensed. The e-Waste Association of South Africa ( eWASA ) is building a network of e-waste recyclers and refurbishers in the country.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Kakamega, Kenya: Stand for Sharing Your Story — NetSquared Kakamega. Maseno, Kenya: Storymakers 2017 NetSquared Siaya. Monday, October 2, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

If you look at the history in South Africa, and the movement to end the apartheid regime, or if you look at the revolution in Cuba, where literally the island was essentially a playground for rich people from the United States. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Thanks for listening.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Then in August, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) accused them of operating without licenses as asset management companies and “utilizing F.X. Similarly, there has been some demand from Kenya and South Africa, so Bamboo will look to move into those countries soon with this new funding. sourced from the Nigerian F.X.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the coming decades, Africa will be a significant growth market for mobile games, driven by the proliferation of technology adoption among the continent’s youthful population. South African music artiste Nasty C (far left); Carry1st co-founder and COO Lucy Hoffman (far right). Image Credits: Carry1st.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

I witnessed ethnic strife in South Africa and the toll poverty takes in Mexico. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. I covered the war between Iraq and Iran. Tara Sonenshine is an Edward R. Murrow professor of practice in public diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 21, 2025

Pigcasso was a pig in South Africa whose trainer taught her to paint on canvas via reinforcement learning. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Details of songs even vary from whale population to population, often changing over the course of a mating season.

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Recode by Vox

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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