Platform Raise Zimbabwe 
TechCrunch
MAY 26, 2022
One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. In Zimbabwe, for instance, only 30% of the adult population had access to any financial services as of 2014. million in 2016.
TechCrunch
MAY 31, 2022
This is a gap that Talk360 is looking to bridge as it creates a new payment platform that will integrate all available payment options across Africa. He added that the startup decided to build its own payment platform informed by the need to make payment and checkout easy for its users in Africa.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 4, 2021
The accelerator, which has accepted only a handful of African startups, included one from Zimbabwe in this class. When a job is posted on its platform, the company claims that they save the customer the trouble of perusing thousands of freelancers profiles and portfolios. Roger Roman (co-founder). Image Cedits: AfriBlocks.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
This year, we fundraised for Grassroot Soccer —an organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries—and exceeded our $60,000 goal and raised a total of $72,000. They are an awesome organization that was founded by two professional “futball” players from Zimbabwe.
TechCrunch
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. Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion.
TechCrunch
MAY 3, 2022
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. Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries.
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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