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African edtech startup uLesson lands a $7.5 million Series A

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It opens up the world for us to do all kinds of really amazing things we’ve wanted to do in the world of edtech that you can’t do in a strictly offline sense,” the founder added. With fresh demand, Shagaya sees uLesson evolving into a live, online platform instead of an offline, asynchronous content play.

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Egyptian fintech Sympl raises $6M for its ‘save now, pay later’ service

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Though BNPL has taken off in most parts of the world, it’s yet to pick up steam in Africa. But in countries such as South Africa and Egypt, there is a newfound surge in demand for such services. But there’s a little twist to Sympl’s offerings which the founders made in a bid to localize its product for the Egyptian market.

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Egyptian startup Convertedin raises $3M, caters to e-commerce brands in MENA and Latin America

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His time as an employee opened his eyes to the opportunity of helping offline stores retarget and retain their customers online while finding new ones to shop at their stores offline. “If Fergany also said Convertedin is eyeing South Africa and India too. “We If you walk into IKEA and they take your phone number down.

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

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The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. Image Credits: By 2030, it is predicted that the number of youths — people between the ages of 15 and 24 — in Africa will increase by 42%, according to the UN. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets $1.1M, wants to be the Toast of Africa

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While big restaurants and restaurant chains are often capable of setting their management systems or using well-known point-of-sale providers, thousands of smaller restaurants in Africa rely on offline methods such as pen and paper to produce receipts and make reconciliations.

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Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

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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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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.