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MARCH 16, 2022

Yu believes Sokowatch is now ready for a rebrand as it enters its next growth phase — moving from an East African player to a pan-African one. Still on competition and market play, MarketForce , an asset-light platform, is present in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. Sokowatch started as this kind of backend brand.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Since leaving the university in 2014, he has co-founded several tech startups but made his mark globally with OMG Digital, a startup with offices in Ghana and Nigeria that wanted to become the “ BuzzFeed of Africa.” When you consider lending, I’d say there are different phases. Ghansah is a serial entrepreneur.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Its clientele includes the likes of the World Food Programme and Central Bank of Nigeria as well as the Zambian and Kenyan governments. They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. million farmers.

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APRIL 13, 2022

There’s no shortage of digital banks in Nigeria and, in general, in Africa. In the latest development, Umba , a digital banking platform operating in Lagos, Nigeria, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. And Umba is yet to actualize Kennedy’s claims, given its sole operation in Nigeria.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

It also recently expanded into Nigeria, Ghana and Vietnam, among other markets. Pillow supports deposits and withdrawals with fiat currency through local partnerships in Nigeria, the Philippines and Vietnam, with plans to add more across Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America with its new funding.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

On the platform, Raise customers can also automate due diligence, set valuations, track employee stock vesting and make routine documentation for licenses and government documents in Nigeria and Kenya. . The next phase of growth, according to Coleby, will be onboarding Series A and growth-stage companies onto the platform.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In the checkout phase, we plan to introduce a very secure payment method…limited by time or value. The e-commerce startup is also set for regional expansion, with immediate plans to enter Nigeria currently underway. “It’s And the final step is integrating financing or buy-now-pay-later solutions directly within that.

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MARCH 19, 2021

The reason lies behind the fact that in this quarter, Nigeria has accounted for 76% of the company’s messaging transactions, while Algeria currently accounts for 15%. Termii’s round is also noteworthy because it strays away from the usual fintech, mobility, agritech and cleantech sectors that investors typically notice.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In October, Stitch expanded the payment product to Nigeria and, at the time, was on track to facilitate $10 million in monthly payments by December. We recently had a few customers go live in Nigeria, which has been very exciting for us. We just offer payments there but are eager to deepen the products.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When CEO Sahir Berry and his co-founder Mahesh Nair founded NowNow in 2016, they wanted to provide solutions to financial inclusion and job creation, two of the most significant pain points they thought were facing Nigeria and the rest of the continent. This product has been made available to a few small businesses to test in a pilot phase.

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JUNE 29, 2022

Adanian Labs targets idea-phase tech startups, offering them all-round support including capital, advisory and operational backing; building them from the ground up. Compelled to offer more value to startups, the co-founders launched Adanian Labs in Kenya, joining other players, like Nailab , in the space. Image Credits: Adanian Labs.

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JULY 21, 2021

We are even more excited for this next phase of their growth.” Though headquartered in Los Angeles, the company is basically remote, with more than 300 employees across its major hubs in LA, Lagos, Nigeria, Singapore and Europe. Products are now selling in more than 70 countries.

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MAY 3, 2022

Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries. Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

The initial investment phase will run for three years. Madica said it is also keen on reaching underserved markets in the continent, outside the well-established hubs of Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. This is part of its push to ensure a pan-African reach by supporting local, and women founders.

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MAY 18, 2022

In 2010, Bastian Gotter invested up to $200,000 into IROKOtv, an African video-on-demand company Jason Njoku, his friend and co-founder, launched in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M We have the inventory management components that tie in with how many and which goods are sold.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Futi said Orda has witnessed tremendous adoption among small restaurants in its two markets, Nigeria and Kenya, and claims the startup might have reached product-market fit already. “We’re seeing fast-paced growth in Nigeria and Kenya with a retention rate of above 95%,” Futi added. .

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Fifteen accelerators from key tech hubs, including Uganda, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania will participate in the program. We believe that the next phase of this evolution will be led by home-grown accelerators, like the ones joining BAM,” said Dieng.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

The startup has now set out to activate more mutti pharmacies to widen its reach and to build out its tech-infrastructure as it readies itself for the next phase of growth after raising $35 million in Series D round. All these while increasing access and affordability to quality medication.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce, which was launched in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda last year after growing beyond Kenya and Nigeria , plans to introduce buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) options to help merchants access fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCGs) on credit. It also plans to enter additional markets in East and West Africa. “We’re

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JUNE 30, 2022

Nigeria is its biggest investment market in Africa, with a portfolio of $570 million. But narrowing this to just Africa, the impact investor is looking to mobilize $6 billion into the continent across these five years, Benson Adenuga , the firm’s head of office and coverage director for Nigeria, told TechCrunch in an interview. “We

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Upstart and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), two investors in the round, are critical to this next phase of growth for Tala. Like Tala, Branch started as a digital lender offering loans to customers in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and India.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Driven by a viable business model, the startup, which also has operations in Uganda and Nigeria, has entered its growth phase and is eyeing more partnerships in a bid to drive mass market insurance adoption in Africa.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

We are looking forward to continuing our close working relationship with our new team and taking the business to its next phase.”. On Monday, Nigeria and Canada-based mobility startup Plentywaka announced the acquisition of Stabus, its counterpart in Ghana, for an undisclosed amount.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its expansion phase, backed by a $3 million pre-seed funding, the startup looks to tap some of the biggest distributors and e-commerce players in Ghana, and later Nigeria, to grow beyond Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It is looking to expand its team of 33, which is currently spread across nine countries, including Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. ” Sevey said Mantium is also preparing to enter a phase where it will create impactful meaning applications beginning next year — as it moves to connect “things with AI”. “So

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AUGUST 11, 2022

In an email sent from Marketforce CEO Tesh Mbaabu and obtained by TechCrunch, the layoffs were a part of a reorganization strategy in Kenya, one of its five markets which include Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. . Mbaabu confirmed the news on a call with TechCrunch, adding that the company let go of 54 people.

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MARCH 11, 2021

“When we first started, we were focused on phase one of our strategy, which came from our knowledge about ride-hailing drivers because of our careers at Uber,” Ruzane said to TechCrunch. Kenya and Nigeria, on the other hand , have a different automotive value chain. and Japan.

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MARCH 15, 2022

After nearly a decade in operations, 4G Capital is also exploring new growth opportunities in West and North Africa with a keen eye on partnerships in Ghana, Nigeria and Egypt, which will happen after deepening and enriching its market share and customer value proposition in its core markets. The recent funding round brings to $27.5

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Most truck drivers are in the unbanked and underbanked segment in Nigeria. As investors became frugal with cash and funding was difficult to come by, KOBO360 returned its priority to assembling a team for its next phase: sustainability. Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises $30M backed by Goldman Sachs.

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So, to help these ideas come to life, our next phase will focus on working directly with farmers and those in the field to get their feedback, and shape a useful, scalable, sustainable solution. These ideas are just the start. In order to make them successful, we need the input of those using a potential solution. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. We call that the three-phase process.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Chibuzo Opara and Adham Yehia, being all too familiar with the problems of poor pharmaceutical supply chains, are planning to widen the reach of DrugStoc, a e-health drug procurement platform that eliminates these challenges by linking drug companies with institutions such as hospitals and pharmacies, in Nigeria. million series A funding.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. It’s going to continue afterwards, and temperatures and extreme weather will continue to get worse until we’ve managed to phase out fossil fuels. Low- and middle-income countries would be disproportionately affected.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Companies are phasing from the first generation of AI, which deals with pattern, text and image recognition, to decision-making AI, which helps them make timely decisions in complex spaces. InstaDeep currently has over 170 employees. When InstaDeep launched, Africa wasn’t in the picture detailing AI’s contribution to global economic growth.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Category 'Geography & Infrastructure : Administrative Divisions' is defined as: Vector geographic data describing the sub-national administrative divisions of a location, usually a country, including the names and unique identifiers, usually p-codes, of each administrative division.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

July 13, 2023 The FTC is reportedly investigating OpenAI The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigation over whether OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people. In just six days, the app topped 500,000 downloads.

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OCTOBER 17, 2020

Perhaps it’s another sign of a consolidation phase taking hold in the sector, after a Pre-Cambrian explosion of SaaS startups over the last decade? Nigeria startup scene gets watershed exit with Paystack deal. Image Credits: Brent Franson for Paystack.

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