TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Upon carefully studying different models pioneered by digital-first banks such as TymeBank, Kuda, FairMoney, they saw a big gap for building a savings product that helps solve what they think is the biggest problem facing African consumers: inflation and currency devaluation. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We needed an energy ladder and a series of products that were all connected in some ways but solve different problems for these 2.2 ” Zola has now become a technology company whose products can solve energy access problems in almost any market, the company said in a statement. billion people,” he said. ” More than 1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Impact Rooms offers well-rounded solutions for startup problems, from ensuring that they are investor-ready and are matched with the right investors, to raising capital. We conduct company evaluations through investor-readiness support and offer introductions to relevant service partners, and then support with capital raising.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The startup ecosystem was growing but I could not fail to notice the problem of accelerators. By the end of the one-year venture building program, the startups should have launched a product, onboarded, and had repeat customers, have a defined revenue model, and have raised or are in the process of closing seed funding. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It’s these twin problems that Samir Ibrahim and his co-founder at SunCulture , Charlie Nichols, have spent the last eight years trying to solve. African small farmers face two big problems as they look to increase productivity, Ibrahim said. The Sun Exchange raises $3M for crypto-driven solar power in Africa.

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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. The problem is that they just aren’t engaged around global health. What’s Needed To Inspire Organizations and Brands To Join a Larger Coalition?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. 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 had no idea where his family went.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Therefore, Stambolis hoped that by launching Zenysis, he’d take some of the talent and resources in Silicon Valley — and South Africa, where the company has its second headquarters — and direct them to work on problems that matter. Zenysis — which raised a $2.8 Stambolis’s reaction was triggered by the Ebola crisis in 2014.

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