TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. You can offer your end consumers the ability to withdraw and deposit money into their wallets and bank accounts through JABU,” said Akinin. “So Many businesses like ours are taking money out of the market.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

The region happens to be one of the fastest-growing globally; nevertheless, over 200 million people in East Africa do not have access to a bank account or mobile money. And in small amounts of money, you’ll be able to hold value, as opposed to needing to save up huge amounts to buy an apartment or a plot of land.”.

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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. He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. That’s the grand mission of the company.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Emtech targets emerging markets where payments infrastructure need aligning with digital innovations — to improve efficiency, introduce new products and services that are likely to promote financial inclusion, and in ensuring the secure movement of money.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup, which provides multiple products for the cross-border commerce space in Africa, raised this new financing from a group of international investors co-led by American Express (AMEX) Ventures, the strategic investment group of American Express. Lagos and San Francisco-based Klasha has received an additional $2.1 million seed round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Stambolis said the UN’s formula for moving the dial worldwide generally boils down to more money and political will. The big data company has provided its software to partners and governments in Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Brazil, Vietnam, Mozambique and Pakistan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Together with partners like Salesforce, over the past 16 years (RED) has raised over $700 million dollars for global health, and (RED)-funded grants have impacted over 245 million people. In 2006, (RED) was launched by Bono and Bobby Shriver to drive private sector funding to the AIDS fight and generate much-needed awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

The Frozen PeaFund , a social media campaign to raise money for breast cancer research, is seeking some advice about becoming a nonprofit organization. A Small Change-Fundraising Blog : A blog to answer questions from nonprofits about fundraising Brenda Zulu from Zambia, a journalist who covers ICT and Development issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He ended up running for about 1,500 miles all the way to Zambia, arriving with nothing but the clothes on his back, about 90 pounds, and showing up at a refugee camp where he knew nobody. He was able to get some work digging pit latrines to put himself through one semester of his remaining high school education, and then he ran out of money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets. million in seed funding.

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