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

APRIL 26, 2023

As fintech services proliferate across different African markets, the need to have sufficient KYC and identity verification processes in place has intensified amid increasing fraud challenges and more stringent regulatory requirements. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2023

While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from the explosion in capital, other regions with more nascent startup scenes also saw big gains in their ability to attract funding. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Chargel, based in Senegal, recently raised $2.5 Latin American as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. million in shares in HotelOnline, which was valued at $24 million before the deal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It also defines African startups as companies with their primary market, in terms of operations or revenues, in Africa — not based on HQ or incorporation. Senegal took the fifth spot with $353 million, while Ghana was sixth ($167 million). Startups in Senegal received more than $222 million, placing the country in fifth.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In Ivory Coast, one of Francophone Africa’s largest mobile money markets, 75% of the population own a mobile money account, compared to 20% who hold bank accounts. Julaya also received investment from its CFO and country manager in Senegal. It was meaningful for Édouard Mendy because he’s Senegalese.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $9 million in seed funding to scale its operational presence, recruit talent and expand into new markets. The company is led by CEO Nikolai Barnwell , betPawa’s former head of New Markets, Africa. This huge market is why mobile money is prevalent across the continent.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. It offers over 30 learning tracks ranging from web development to digital marketing and data science to artificial intelligence. There are a lot of impact and mass market players. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Partech Shaker , the innovation division of the Paris-based VC firm Partech , has launched an accelerator program christened Chapter54 to help European startups launch in African markets. We are going to help them to reinvent the way they operate their businesses (to enter African markets).”. You have to tweak the way you work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities. If they do, they’re doing it at a price point that’s so high that they’ve already priced out the market in that sense,” Olubusi said to TechCrunch. Helium Health.

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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. Senegal, the region’s top destination for VC funding dropped from $16 million in 2019 to $8.8 Regional and gender diversity check.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The e-commerce platform is available in 11 markets across Africa, including Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. Jumia is currently the biggest e-commerce platform in Africa, leading hundreds of others, including Nigeria’s Marketplace Africa and South Africa’s Souq, and bidorbuy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

One is access to markets , which alone is a huge source of food waste, and the other is food security because of a lack of stable growing conditions exacerbated by climate change. Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

This isn’t an issue in developed markets, as healthcare systems change with the times to adequately provide healthcare when necessary. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If there’s a sector that has seen the biggest uptick in the number of startups and venture capital in emerging markets since the start of last year, it has to be the digitization of mom and pop stores. It’s the same process in Tunisia, its second market after Morocco. The Moroccan startup currently transacts about $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And while the pitches are diverse, some concentrations show key ways that a group of vetted entrepreneurs are thinking about the landscape’s shift in light of finicky venture markets, a downturn, and some public market meltdowns. Swizerland, India, Nigeria, Senegal and other geographies. And this batch supports that realization.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

From hospitality to fleet management : Two brothers in Senegal are putting their hospitality management skills to work helping trucking companies with their logistics. For example, raising funds to scale up sales and marketing efforts might sound great, but what if the business itself has negative unit economics? Catherine has more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. Total funding and number of deals Briter Bridges: According to the market intelligence firm, African startups raised $5.4 Briter Bridges recorded $5.2 Kenya is a close second with $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

According to the accelerator, six new countries home to these companies are making their appearance for the first time : Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Chile, Brazil and Singapore. YC says 16% of the companies in its current list (44 out of 267) are based outside the U.S., compared to its first list, which included just seven non-U.S.

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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. Building supply is the right thing to do, especially in a tough market and macroeconomic context. People want cheaper products and better deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It was the perfect marketing required to onboard several customers in Africa and challenge Binance , the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, for market share. But as FTX and its chief executive undergo criminal investigation, this event will push forward regulatory changes for crypto across various markets.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As part of the agreement, both organizations will target financial institutions serving the needs of vulnerable populations and provide financial capital and training in support of the development of the education sector in the target markets.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Phoenix, Arizona: Defining and Targeting Your Audience: Marketing for Nonprofits. Dakar, Senegal: Concours de Présentation des Projets. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Los Angeles, California: Web Accessibility: Designing Inclusive User Experiences. Friday, August 11, 2017. Mukono, Uganda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Informal retailers are unlicensed and unregistered retailers that don’t report to tax agencies, typically operating out of open markets and shops. 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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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We are here to talk about the next wave, what are those emerging trends in nonprofit social media marketing. We’re going to talk about Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing. I am a former development and marketing director. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. I actually loved marketing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Automotive e-commerce company Autochek has expanded to new markets in Africa after acquiring CoinAfrique, a classified ad marketplace, nearly two months after the Nigerian startup acquired Moroccan auto marketplace KIFAL Auto , marking its foray into North Africa. CoinAfrique classifieds ads marketplace is active in 12 Francophone markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

These challenges befall millions of micro-retailers across the continent, and Betastore , a B2B retail marketplace for informal retailers, is working to resolve in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal. We plan to enter new markets before the end of the year and to expand to 100 cities across Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. But only a few players are taking advantage of the market, which can make a case as the next frontier for mobile money and investment apps in Africa.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

And so the key difference in the market is this. This is where we’ve seen the big opportunities in Francophone as a nice market.”. And having built companies in Singapore before Gozem, Dana and Costamagna brought Ajene on board, adding his on-the-ground African expertise to a team with vast knowledge of the Southeast Asian market.

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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. Before now, Appzone lacked the resources to push into these markets aggressively even though they showed promise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

But in 2020, the France-based and Africa-focused startup pivoted to a new market: business owners in off-grid locations in Africa and emerging markets, starting with Nigeria. These people find it difficult to feed their families because 40% of their food gets spoilt even before getting to the market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

We help these startups build their teams, iterate where needed, until we find a market fit product,” said Kamara. In the interim, the lab is planning on establishing a presence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal and Ivory Coast, and considering a franchise model to help it fast track its growth. Not just one,” said Kiwia.

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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. Nobody is targeting the woman selling the markets or the man driving a motorbike for a living. That’s two similar events across different Francophone markets in quick succession.

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