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

TechCrunch

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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Swoop Aero’s drones hit a million items delivered as the company raises for expansion

TechCrunch

Swoop has been providing transport and delivery of medical materials — medications as well as things like samples for labs — in south Malawi, DR Congo and other locations for the last three years, and recently delivered its millionth item and completed its 20,000th flight. This success has led to USAID awarding $1.5

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

TechCrunch

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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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

The startup has now set out to activate more mutti pharmacies to widen its reach and to build out its tech-infrastructure as it readies itself for the next phase of growth after raising $35 million in Series D round. mPharma is also present in Gabon where it has a contract with the government to build a drug supply chain infrastructure.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Started by a nightclub promoter tired of an unfulfilling job, charity:water doesn’t even have a marketing team but raises millions annually to give 800 million people the resource they are so lacking: access to clean drinking water. Charity:water’s latest campaign for 2014 is focused around donating to the people of Malawi, Africa.

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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

TechCrunch

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. Like when its partnership with Worldpay FIS coincided with its Series B funding, this announcement is also coming on the back of a raise.

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