TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. Mauritius-headquartered companies received $110 million while African startups headquartered in the U.K. Those in South Africa claimed $119.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. The continent is also home to more than 1.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. PayPal finally arrived Africa’s most populous country in 2014 and a year later, it became the company’s second-biggest market on the continent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 The investment will see co-founders and co-CEOs Gil Sperling and Daniel Levy drive the business’s B2B growth strategy and integrate Flow’s social media–driven real estate marketing platform into existing international property portals and CRM platforms.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

But as a sign of how the market is firming up, that changed last year and now the firm invests $25,000 for 7% equity. Microtraction revealed that it accepted over 500 applications from startups in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, and Mauritius in its first full year of operation. Though, just eight of those companies got investments. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“We are primarily focused on expanding across Africa in 2022 and in other emerging markets globally,” Wowzi co-founder and CEO, Brian Mogeni, told TechCrunch. “We Wowzi makes it possible for brands to partner with social media users for marketing campaigns. We offer a really comprehensive reporting dashboard online.

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