TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round. “From telling us to set up takes days. Here’s a use case on how it works.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding. This represents nearly four-fold growth over a year ago when its portfolio raised $6 million (and just $3 million in 2018). Though, just eight of those companies got investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $100 million in Series C financing — split between $70 million equity and $30 million debt. In fact, at the time, more than half of its users in East Africa reported using the platform for business reasons, according to Okoudjou. MFS Africa leads $2.3M

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

This is the second fund for the nine-year-old Mauritius-headquartered investment firm. “We raised from some angel investors, high net worth individuals, so when we the official fund launched, we rolled these select companies into the fund,” Alliy said. Europe, and Latin America.

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