TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. million farmers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia, Sun King , has raised $260 million in series D funding to deliver off-grid energy technologies to more people across the two continents. It also has a presence in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria, where it says its customers tripled over the last one year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Badili , a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

It has been a hot sector for investors, and today’s news shows they aren’t slowing down in backing these startups just yet as Sokowatch , one of the major players in the space, announced that it has raised $125 million in Series B funding. But we’ve been able to do that on our own without raising any kind of separate debt facilities.

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NetWits

MAY 10, 2010

On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Finclusion Group , a fintech that uses AI algorithms to provide financial services to African customers via an array of credit-centric products, has raised $20 million in debt and equity pre-Series A financing. It follows the $20 million debt facility supplied by emerging markets debt provider Lendable last September.

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

seed funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

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NetWits

APRIL 22, 2010

Make sure to watch the brief video to see how EpicChange has impacted the lives of many children in Arusha, Tanzania using tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to raise money, connect people with a cause and tell their story.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

When I was in Tanzania I had a medical need and I was definitely not going to go to a doctor in Tanzania, and I couldn’t reach any doctor online, not even in the U.S., This round brings the total raised by 1Doc3 to $5 million. Like many startups, the jolt to found 1Doc3 came from a personal experience faced by the founder. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

million seed funding it has raised in a round led by Atlantica Ventures, with participation from Vested World, Jaza Rift and Katapult. The startup has so far raised $1.7 The startup has so far raised $1.7 Outside Nigeria, Figorr’s solutions are currently used in Ethiopia , Ghana , Kenya , South Africa , Tanzania and Uganda.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Where do the funds go?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We just spent three weeks at Shepherd’s Junior near Arusha, Tanzania setting up a technology lab and wireless internet at the school. Where do the funds go?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. Total funding and number of deals Briter Bridges: According to the market intelligence firm, African startups raised $5.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the latest development, Grey , a fintech in this category that provides virtual international bank accounts to African freelancers and remote workers, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Last year, the startup raised an undisclosed pre-seed investment and got accepted into YC’s winter batch this March.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

This year, TMWL is raising funds that will support the work of 4 passionate women who truly believe that everyone has something to give: “ Mama Lucy &# Kamptoni sold chickens in her Tanzanian village & turned her income into a primary school that now serves over 400 children.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

MarketForce , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. This latest round (equal amount of debt and equity) brings the total funds raised by MarketForce to date to $42.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa. The money raised from this fundraiser will help build a boarding facility on campus so that every child who attends her school has a place to call home. Here's how it works. I love the design.

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TechCrunch

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 She is trying to raise money by selling one of her horses and crowdfunding money to help with her legal fees. Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity. Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Last year, this campaign had hundreds of people sharing their love for hundreds of moms, and nearly $20,000 USD was raised to build a home for the TwitterKids of Tanzania and their classmates who attend Mama Lucy Kamptoni’s school in Arusha, Tanzania.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

In the latest development, Umba , a digital banking platform operating in Lagos, Nigeria, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The news comes almost two years since the fintech raised a seed round of $2 million. The fintech has raised a total of $17.5 million to date. Umba has been in operation for about two years now.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. Born in Rwanda, Umubyeyi moved around Tanzania and Zambia as a child, observing how her parents utilized entrepreneurship to sustain themselves and the communities in which they lived.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. Born in Rwanda, Umubyeyi moved around Tanzania and Zambia as a child, observing how her parents utilized entrepreneurship to sustain themselves and the communities in which they lived.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. To ensure the school is off the ground & ready to open by the time next term begins in January 2012, we aim to raise $15K more by ThanksGiving Day here in the US.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

The company claims to be handling over 10 million transactions on its rails per week, with beta operations in 10 African countries — Cameroon, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

“We raised from some angel investors, high net worth individuals, so when we the official fund launched, we rolled these select companies into the fund,” Alliy said. South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform. Europe, and Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. And there are a lot more ways to participate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The startup, currently with operations in Nigeria, Tanzania and India (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar), has set an ambitious goal of installing at least 5,000 mini-grids by 2030 and in the process make 1 million connections – half of which will be micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

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TechCrunch

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. . MarketForce raises $40 million Series A, introduces BNPL merchant stock financing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. It is also coming a year after raising $55 million in a similar unnamed financing round.

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TechCrunch

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. Since its inception, Chipper Cash has raised over $305 million from investors including Deciens Capital, Ribbit Capital and Bezos Expeditions.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2011

The inspiring Tweetsgiving , developed by Epic Change , raised over $60K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. Tweetsgiving, created by Amanda Rose, raised $1.2 million within 14 months for 137 nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Startups in Africa raised nearly $5 billion in funding last year but the amount remains meager when compared to the rest of the world. Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021. The nine have equity investment needs of between $25,000 and $100,000.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Masa Finance , a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau founded by Pngme CEO Brendan Playford in late 2020, has raised $3.5 ” Before starting Pngme, an open finance startup that has raised over $18 million in VC funding, Playford actively worked in the blockchain and crypto space for almost a decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Raising money on Twitter is happening all the time. Beth Kanter stood on stage at Gnomedex and used Twitter to help raise $2,657 in 90 minutes. Last November, Tweetsgiving used Twitter to raise over $10,000 in 48 hours for a school in Tanzania.

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