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Francophone African super app Gozem grabs $5M to expand and offer more services

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Gozem , a super app that provides a host of services — including transport, e-commerce and financial services in Francophone Africa — has raised $5 million in Series A financing, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. It follows the $7 million raised in previous seed rounds via three tranches from investors such as U.S.

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Nigerian digital bank Yep! raises $1.5M pre-seed for its ‘financial super app’ play

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Founded by Olaoluwa Awojoodu , the company’s agent banking platform, PayCentre Africa, is present in Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo. a “financial super app” with payments, remittance and banking features, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 Today, Yep! , What gives Yep! ” Yep!

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MaxAB gets an extra $15M, acquires YC-backed Moroccan startup WaystoCap

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Last month, MaxAB, the Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, raised one of the largest Series A on the continent , to the tune of $40 million. That business model got WaystoCap into Y Combinator’s Winter batch in 2017, making it the first company accepted from Morocco. “I love the team.

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Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M

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Thus, Sun King has closed its Series D round at $330 million and as a result, raised over $550 million in debt and equity since its inception. Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia. We are pleased to be partnering with Sun King for the next stage of their impressive growth journey.”.

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SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the world’s next bread basket, one solar water pump at a time

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Armed with a new financing model and purpose-built small solar-powered generators and water pumps, Nichols and Ibrahim have already built a network of customers using their equipment to increase incomes by anywhere from five to 10 times their previous levels by growing higher-value cash crops, cultivating more land and raising more livestock.

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