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. It’s one of the few companies offering such services, including Firstbase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Yele Badamosi in 2017, Microtraction arrived on the continent’s early-stage investment scene with all intent to be “the most accessible and preferred source of pre-seed funding for African tech entrepreneurs.” Though, just eight of those companies got investments. The introductory batch was all Nigerian.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

According to Partech, fintech represented 25% of total African funding raised last year, with agritech, logistics & mobility, off-grid tech, and healthtech sectors following behind. 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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mauritius and U.K.-based Juven is one of the few investment firms targeting growth deals on the continent , including TLcom , Novastar and Partech Africa , that have written significant checks in tech companies in recent years. . Frebault adds that Juven may also consider non-tech companies that can solve such problems.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

As a tech entrepreneur, Lamm said he saw the opportunity to inspire people and make a pretty big impact. And he said, I’d work to bring back wooly mammoths, reintroduce them into the Arctic, help suppress carbon and methane in the ecosystem, and make technologies for human healthcare and also for conservation.

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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. “Early-stage funding is vital to enable more of Africa’s emerging and growing tech founders to grow their business and fuel the transformation of Africa’s internet economy.

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