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AUGUST 24, 2022

South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. Carrefour and Indofood. and Europe.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Bento , Nigeria’s digital payroll and human resource management platform is expanding to Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda with plans to set up operations in six other markets in Africa over the next one year. In its next phase of expansion, Bento is eyeing Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Ethiopia by the end of next year.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Kenyan retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform Marketforce laid off a chunk of its workforce in July, according to sources familiar with the matter. . Some of these roles were instrumental to Marketforce’s growth over the past year as the company concentrated its efforts on onboarding thousands of merchants to its RejaReja platform.

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Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. The internet is an endless stage and platform, and when we are up there speaking, we expect you are all listening. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too.

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Our Winner in Rio Crossfy bridges the gap between old and new media by creating a cross platform interactivity – we saw the app in action and it could have easily come out of a Silicon Valley accelerator like YCobinator or 500 Startups. Although entrepreneurs need to practice their pitches (and English). Many female entrepreneurs.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. in average transaction fees, digital senders like NALA pitch themselves to customers as platforms with the best rates and lowest prices. The platform allows payments from the U.K. and the E.U., and the U.K.

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MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA’s financing platform has proved helpful to this set of users since launching as an energy provider in 2011. M-KOPA started with solar-power home systems targeted at lower-income and rural customers without electricity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Over the past three years, some platforms have looked to solve this problem. One such platform is Pngme. based unified financial data platform announced its seed round of $3 million. Founded by Brendan Playford and Cate Rung , Pngme started primarily as a lending platform in 2018. Today, the Africa-focused but U.S.-based

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MAY 4, 2022

We aggregate that knowledge and provide one platform that ensures you don’t have to worry too much about trust,” the CEO added. According to Norebase, companies that use its platform can be incorporated in any African country within “a few minutes” and expand to new locations in a week.

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MARCH 16, 2022

B2B retail and e-commerce platforms have primarily tried to fix these inefficient supply chains over the last couple of years and have received substantial investor backing since the pandemic. And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Charitable Giving - Where Are Tanzania''s Affluent? Page 1 of 4) : IN December 2009, Luca Neghesti, a serial entrepreneur in Media, ICT and Logistics industries in Tanzania spearheaded a relief aid campaign for thousands of victims of the Dar es Salaam floods through the use of social media platforms.'

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Buoyed by the new funding, Badili plans to explore new growth opportunities in West Africa, where it hopes to tap an increasing demand for affordable second-hand smartphones, even as it scales its operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. “We Smartphone re-commerce platform Cashify bags $90 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

So, u sers from different countries — Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya, for now — can connect their bank or mobile money accounts to Dash, pay bills, and send and receive money to other users while the platform handles currency conversions. The Dash team. Image Credits: Dash. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The B2B e-commerce food distribution platform claims that over 100,000 customers use its services across Kenya while delivering more than 600 metric tons of product to 10,000+ retailers daily. . “We see ourselves as building a one-stop-shop for the informal retailer and all their needs.

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

The startup has today announced entry of RejaReja, the B2B retail marketplace, into Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, after successful pilot programs, coming about two months after it grew beyond Kenya by launching in Nigeria. Mbaabu said that they aim to grow their RejaReja merchants tenfold to 1 million by the end of next year.

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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. Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Embedded finance solutions in less developed markers are becoming more prominent as platforms look to provide various financial solutions to the unbanked and underserved. They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The fintech, which refers to itself as a banking-as-a-service platform, says it uses AI to power financial services, particularly lending in emerging markets where over 1.7 According to the current number of eMoney subscribers on its platform with access to loans, JUMO says it has an opportunity to disburse $29 billion a year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chipper Cash , an African cross-border payments company, has raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. In May, it expanded to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Reaching your primary care doctor when you’re not feeling well is getting harder and harder, and 1Doc3 aims to solve that problem in LatAm by offering a telemedicine platform powered by AI that does symptom assessment, triage and pre-diagnosis before connecting the patient to a doctor. “In In March of 2021, the company had $120,000 in MRR.

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APRIL 20, 2023

In its next phase of growth, it is opening up its platform to more clients, as it had limited access to 10 companies. Ventures Platform, Foundation Botnar, DFS Labs and Seedstars also participated in the round, which also included $500,000 debt. This year we are opening up the platform to more shippers in Senegal.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

.” FSD Africa is also planning to provide access to capital through venture funds and grants to early-stage insurtech startups, in addition to setting up an online platform where founders can brainstorm, share experiences, create partnerships, and gain technical support from different industry professionals.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Thus, users in Nigeria and Kenya can receive foreign payments from over 88 countries using USD, GBP, and EUR bank accounts created on the platform, convert them into their local currencies (naira and shilling) and withdraw directly to their mobile money or local bank account. They can also send money to the UK and Europe on the platform.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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MAY 4, 2022

Last February, he revealed that this involvement led him to offer short-term crypto loans to entrepreneurs, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania — and traditional loans via Pngme before pivoting to an open finance play. African fintech Pngme raises $15M for its financial data infrastructure platform.

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MARCH 10, 2021

South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform. The firm has a presence in Kenya, South African and Tanzania, but its core markets remain Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. We’re proud to partner with WeFi to further expand and encourage female founders on the continent.

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billion plays on the platform. Vibez is one of many African and Caribbean artists who have found breakout success on the platform. Many of them consistently draw larger audiences on Audiomack than on Spotify or Apple Music , largely due to the platforms strong presence in local markets. The current No.

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MAY 15, 2022

Twiga , a B2B e-commerce food distribution platform, has today announced the launch of its new subsidiary, Twiga Fresh, through which it will farm and distribute its own agricultural produce to traders. Beyond Kenya, Twiga plans to start operations in Uganda and Tanzania soon, and is also exploring new markets in Central and West Africa.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Then, Tala plans to use blockchain-based finance to refine its capital market strategy and connect investors and borrowers on the Tala platform. An AI lending platform, Upstart has assisted banks and credit unions originate more than $13 billion worth of loans. “And where it is headquartered.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Last November, the African cross-border payments company raised $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. It expanded to the U.K.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the latest development, Curacel , a Nigeria-based platform that aims to drive insurance penetration in emerging markets via APIs enabling insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and administer their claims, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The distribution business is essentially its embedded insurance product Grow.

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JUNE 7, 2022

KlashaCheckout allows merchants outside Africa to collect payments from six countries on the continent — Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Kenya — and get paid in G20 currencies like dollars, pounds or euros. The platform will go live in Kenya in the next couple of months, said Anuna. KlashaCart.

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MAY 19, 2022

This funding will allow the Kenyan-based company to expand its business into Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania. I believed the platform I was running could be a lot bigger and scale a lot faster if we could connect more dots — and basically creating an end to end protein plant,” said Rehmann, who has worked for an investment bank and Microsoft.

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Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania. So use Twitter for listening, communicating, and promoting, but don't overlook the platform as a vehicle for real-time action. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Pakistan’s Zaraye wants to change that with its platform that connects manufacturers directly with suppliers. Let’s do a proverbial cannonball into the startup pond: Software eats food distribution : Cerve raised $2 million for a wholesaler platform as post-COVID food distribution digitizes. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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