TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

” The traditional options involve the painstaking process of interfacing with various law and accounting firms, trademark registries and hiring a team to manage these processes. These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Briter Bridges, for instance, avoids using geography to define an African startup due to factors contributing to business identities like taxation, customers, IP and management team. Senegal took the fifth spot with $353 million, while Ghana was sixth ($167 million). In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s why Julaya launched its services in the west African country and has since expanded into Senegal, where mobile market penetration is around 80% as well as other countries in the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) region, which also have prevalent mobile money usage. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

While the service has managed to attract 13 million users in France, it has yet to expand to other countries. Molotov is starting its international expansion this year with a dozen countries on the roadmap.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

It expects to also select startups from additional countries, including Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, for this sixth cohort. In 2020, it selected 20 startups into the program (eight from Nigeria, six from Kenya, two from South Africa and one each from Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“So even at that tender age, I asked myself how we managed to do everything right and still end up in that zone. Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), So it stayed on my mind.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company, founded by Olubisi, Dimeji Sofowora and Tito Ovia in 2016, is well-known for its core electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital management solutions in Africa. With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries. Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems. Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In one development of that theme, today, Taptap Send — one of the startups building tools to manage these money transfers — is announcing $65 million in growth funding as it continues its mission to enable remittances specifically to the most overlooked countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The EEGF is managed by Triple Jump; an impact investment manager and advised by Persistent; and a climate venture builder. Baobab+ has operations in Mali, Senegal, Madagascar and Côte d’Ivoire, and is planning to enter Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

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

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Vincent Previ , the managing director of Chapter54, told TechCrunch that startups will be taken through several preparation stages, including mentorship programs with founders running successful enterprises across the continent, and with C-suite tech or startup executives. based company that connects consumer goods brands to retailers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. One way it wants to carry this out will be to take its pan-African expansion seriously even though a large part of its 450 clients are based in Nigeria. Four years later, it raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. However, it was her colleague, Maurizio Caio , the firm’s managing partner, who had something to say about the round. . Pula co-founders and Co-CEOs (Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru). million farmers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Some examples of Seedstars’ portfolio companies include Pakistan e-commerce startup Dastgyr; Saudi Arabian cloud-based point-of-sale and restaurant management system Foodics; Indonesian workforce marketplace MyRobin; Latin American restaurant CRM OlaClick ; and Nigerian B2B marketplace Omnibiz.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

seed-stage accelerator invested in this seed round, along with Plug and Play, Village Capital/MetLife Foundation, Orange Ventures, Airbnb executives, SPE Capital, Pincus Private Equity, The Chandaria family, Michael Lahyani and the management company of an American Ivy League university.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

According to Dario Giuliani , the firm’s director, the research organisation avoided using geography to define an African startup due to factors contributing to business identities like taxation, customers, IP, and management team. Senegal, the region’s top destination for VC funding dropped from $16 million in 2019 to $8.8

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The platform then generates an abstracted health score supposedly devoid of sensitive medical details, which insurers can use for risk management and underwriting. Founded in 2020, the Nigeria-based startup claims to have distributed over 140,000 goods to retail customers in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal and fielded over 20,000 orders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

He acknowledged that Nestcoin held assets, which the Financial Times pegs at $4 million, in the bankrupt crypto exchange platform FTX to manage operational expenses. Before its demise, FTX managed to acquire over 100,000 customers in Africa, sources told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Jumia reaches lowest losses in four years under new management In Q4 2022, Jumia embarked on a streamlining effort that reduced its headcount by 20%, affecting 900 roles across 11 markets. These early signs of success can be seen in markets like Senegal and Ghana, where the electronics and phones categories grew the fastest in GMV in Q2 2023.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Swizerland, India, Nigeria, Senegal and other geographies. The three companies are founded by a Nigerian port operations manager, an Airbnb superhost and a LatAm-focused digital banking exec, respectively, showcasing the deeply focused approach of these founders on more niche segments of the market where they have prior experience.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 2, 2014

Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. Vancouver, Canada: Community Management Inside Out: Why culture matters. we’d love to help you start a new meetup. January Events. Saturday, January 4.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Last October, it had 8,000 users from Cameroon, its first market and others including Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Senegal. The competition for treasury bonds is with the traditional asset managers and banks. As a result, users on the platform have grown in multiples over the last 14 months.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Senegal is set to be home to a million new fruit and nut trees by the end of 2020; the country will host the largest number of trees being planted in a single place this year. The foundation partners with other organizations and forest services around the world that plant the trees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Outside the top four countries, startups from Ghana, Algeria, Tunisia and Senegal raised the most equity funding. Partech: Nigeria represented 23% of African tech’s total equity funding. South Africa takes the second spot with 17%, Egypt at third at 16%, and Kenya at 15%. Kenya is a close second with $1.1

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. By the way, Lucy Bernholz' top buzz word of 2012 was " data." " She maintains that we are only at the beginning of learning how to use data well for social purposes and philanthropy. We gathered so much data!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Dakar, Senegal: Concours de Présentation des Projets. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Gearing Up for Give to the Max Day | Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (Free). Tuesday, September 12, 2017. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Wednesday, September 13, 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

And in a bid to continue providing affordable and accessible healthcare for its customers in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon, the Ivorian startup is being backed with $1 million in pre-seed funding. The health issue was a complication from his hypertension that was poorly managed,” Bardet told TechCrunch over a call. “At

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond these webinars, we’re also a donor management software provider, so if you’re curious about that and want to check us out. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. It even has a social media management and scheduling platform. I know you got a lot of good options.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2019, teams across Senegal, Bangladesh, Mexico, and Indonesia painted a total of 250,000 small household rooftops with white reflective pain as part of the Million Cool Roofs Challenge. The power of paint Many cities have turned to paint to alleviate urban problems like the heat island effect. In 2022, the city of L.A.

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