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Senegalese logistics and delivery company PAPS raises $4.5M led by 4DX Ventures and Orange

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PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics services. The gap that we are filling is one that all these big corporations didn’t want it to address, which is the domestic market. Today the company is announcing that it has raised a $4.5

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Senegal’s logistics tech startup Chargel raises $2.5M seed funding

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Some market research made them aware of the full extent of inefficiencies in the trucking business, which especially limited the earnings of owner-operators. We realized that there were so many inefficiencies, and that the logistics sector in Senegal was so fragmented, but we felt that technology could help.

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Sokowatch rebrands to Wasoko as it raises $125M Series B from Tiger Global and Avenir

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“In managing the operations directly ourselves … we went from an asset-light backend distribution software platform to this market-facing platform that was out there delivering goods directly to shops themselves.”. And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018.

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

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However, the fact remains that across Africa and other emerging markets, there are still millions of smallholder farmers with risks to their livelihoods that have not been covered.” Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 million farmers.

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4DX Ventures and Flutterwave back Francophone Africa’s CinetPay in $2.4M round

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.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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500 Global, GIZ establish bootcamp for accelerators in Africa to help them define sustainable business models

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Fifteen accelerators from key tech hubs, including Uganda, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania will participate in the program. Accelerators provide all-round support to early-stage startups, including helping them find product-market fit, funding and access to investors. .

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Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa

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Adanian Labs targets idea-phase tech startups, offering them all-round support including capital, advisory and operational backing; building them from the ground up. We help these startups build their teams, iterate where needed, until we find a market fit product,” said Kamara. Not just one,” said Kiwia.

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