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Foko Madagascar: It Takes A Village To Raise An Idea

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. They project has several components, including: Foko Blog Club is teaching young people in Madagascar blogging skills (See photo above). s development.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. million farmers.

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Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia

TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia, Sun King , has raised $260 million in series D funding to deliver off-grid energy technologies to more people across the two continents. Sun King has previously raised $170 million in equity and debt funding.

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Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets. million in seed funding.

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Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The majority of these trees were planted across Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the United States, Australia, the U.K. In January 2021, turnover was at £3.0 million ARR (annual recurring revenue), but the company projects it will end the year with £8.5 million ARR. million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

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Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The company has now raised more than $80 million, and while it is not disclosing its valuation, PitchBook data notes that it is $715 million as of this round (which appears to have closed earlier in the year).

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TikTok for Good: The Nonprofit’s Guide to Marketing on TikTok

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nonprofits and cause driven organizations just like yours are now marketing on Tiktok to help raise awareness and support for their missions! United Way has repurposed images of their volunteers and video interviews of their staff to create several TikToks that raise awareness of their work. Check out the examples below!

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Paris-based Koolboks closes $2.5M seed round to scale solar refrigeration across Africa

TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

The sustainable cooling company, which offers accessible cold storage solutions to businesses across Africa, has raised $2.5 Koolboks has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. Nigeria-based growth equity fund Aruwa Capital Management led the round with participation from Acumen, Blue Earth Capital, All On, GSMA and other investors.

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Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Qotto , a solar kits provider with operations in Burkina Faso and Benin, has raised $8 million in a Series A equity-debt round led by the IBL group, a billion-dollar conglomerate headquartered in Mauritius with business interests in a number of sectors including energy, financial services, logistics, distribution, and engineering.

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Vanilla Vida wants the world to eat more natural vanilla

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

About 70% of the vanilla we consume is grown in Madagascar, and if you saw the weather news lately, the area was hit by not one, but two cyclones in the past 10 days. To aid in the scaling, Vanilla Vida raised $11.5 The latest round gives the company about $15 million in total funding to date.

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Countries like South Sudan, Burundi, Chad, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Tanzania are among some of the least electrified countries in the world, and could benefit from clean energy from solar or wind. Husk has to date raised $40 million from investors, including the Shell energy company and the Dutch Development bank FMO.

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YouTubers’ #TeamTrees campaign overcame big hurdles in its first year

The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A year after YouTubers launched a campaign to raise enough money to plant 20 million trees, the campaign is in a critical phase: planting the trees and ensuring their survival. By December, they had surpassed their goal of raising $20 million dollars, enough to plant 20 million trees. Image: Arbor Day Foundation. million planted.

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Constituent Empowerment, as old as Lady Liberty

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Of course we saw Central Park and the Zoo therein, to see if the animals from Madagascar were hanging out, and we saw FAO Schwartz and Times Square and the Empire State Building. Recently, I was in New York City for a mini vacation with my family, seeing all of the tourist traps with my kids, who had never been to the big apple.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Over the next 2,000 years the crop spread from those regions to Madagascar and eventually took root in India, where it was first refined in about 500 BC. Sugar came into the human diet roughly 10,000 years ago as sugarcane, which is native to New Guinea and parts of Taiwan and China. From there, the sweetener spread across the known world.

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In a ‘big blow’ to public health, the State Department will no longer share global air quality data

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MARCH 6, 2025

In Africa, the program provided air quality data for over a dozen countries including Senegal, Nigeria, Chad, and Madagascar. air quality monitors propelled nations to start their own air quality research and raised awareness, Krishna said. Some of those countries depend almost entirely on the U.S. embassy monitoring data.

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Foko Madagascar: It Takes A Village To Raise An Idea

Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

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Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia

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Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst

Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets

TikTok for Good: The Nonprofit’s Guide to Marketing on TikTok

Paris-based Koolboks closes $2.5M seed round to scale solar refrigeration across Africa

Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding

Vanilla Vida wants the world to eat more natural vanilla

Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

YouTubers’ #TeamTrees campaign overcame big hurdles in its first year

Constituent Empowerment, as old as Lady Liberty

Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

In a ‘big blow’ to public health, the State Department will no longer share global air quality data

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