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

TechCrunch

Flutterwave hopes to roll out this service to individual merchants on the platform as well. . So despite having the largest payment infrastructure in Africa, we want to have arguably all the important payments systems in the world on our platform.” This is a pain point for these businesses, particularly in Nigeria.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

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We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added. According to Norebase, companies that use its platform can be incorporated in any African country within “a few minutes” and expand to new locations in a week.

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Early-stage African VC firm, Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19

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Microtraction revealed that it accepted over 500 applications from startups in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, and Mauritius in its first full year of operation. The Nigerian startups included social commerce startup, Sendbox ; events startup, Festival Coins ; communications-as-a-service platform, Termii. The rest were unannounced.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

TechCrunch

The proptech marketing platform is announcing that it has raised $4.5 Flow intends to use the funding to include other social media platforms such as TikTok and LinkedIn and other advertising channels like digital out-of-home billboards. million in pre-Series A funding.

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Congratulations and welcome to the 2021 Tableau Ambassadors

Tableau

These power users of the native analytics and AI solution for Salesforce love to share their expertise on the specialized platform and build bridges between the Salesforce Trailblazer community and the Tableau Community. . moderating content, and providing feedback on the platform. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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Congratulations and welcome to the 2021 Tableau Ambassadors

Tableau

These power users of the native analytics and AI solution for Salesforce love to share their expertise on the specialized platform and build bridges between the Salesforce Trailblazer community and the Tableau Community. . moderating content, and providing feedback on the platform. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

TechCrunch

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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