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JANUARY 19, 2022

PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics services. PAPS clients span a range of industries, such as banking, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals (Lo said that the company currently handles distribution for 70% of all pharmacies in Senegal).

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MARCH 16, 2022

However, the recent entry into Ivory Coast and Senegal somewhat forced its hand. Wasoko allows retailers from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ivory Coast and Senegal to order products from suppliers via SMS or its mobile app for same-day delivery to their stores and shops via a network of logistics drivers.

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MAY 30, 2022

These challenges befall millions of micro-retailers across the continent, and Betastore , a B2B retail marketplace for informal retailers, is working to resolve in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal. We plan to enter new markets before the end of the year and to expand to 100 cities across Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Senegal took the fifth spot with $353 million, while Ghana was sixth ($167 million). Startups in Senegal received more than $222 million, placing the country in fifth. In 2021, Nigeria retained the first spot ($1.8 billion), South Africa was second ($832 million), Egypt came third ($652 million) and Kenya landed fourth ($571 million).

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MAY 4, 2022

These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso. 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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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It immediate plan involves attaining a dominant position in East Africa, and in Nigeria and Senegal, as it works towards being a powerful pan-African player. HotelPlus has built an impressive commercial organization, with skilled sales people, a high-performance reseller network covering more than a dozen countries across the continent.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Chargel, based in Senegal, recently raised $2.5 We know that deals are still getting done in Africa. TechCrunch recently covered a $4 million round for Shuttlers, which we described as a “Nigerian shared mobility company.”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It’s why Julaya launched its services in the west African country and has since expanded into Senegal, where mobile market penetration is around 80% as well as other countries in the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) region, which also have prevalent mobile money usage. .

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JANUARY 13, 2021

First, the service will be available in seven African countries, starting with Ivory Coast where it’s already live, Senegal in January, Cameroon in February, Burkina Faso in March, Tunisia in April, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo after that.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Thus, in addition to supplying Smile Identity with a skilled and experienced team, APIs and customers, Appruve presents the Costanoa-backed KYC identity provider with a gateway into the Francophone market (focusing on Ivory Coast and Senegal) and also Uganda, Straub told TechCrunch over a call. “We We have product depth in Nigeria already.

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JULY 6, 2022

Already, Autochek has rolled out its operations in Ivory Coast and Senegal following the acquisition, with more markets set to be activated, including Benin and Togo, as the auto marketplace expands. Autochek expands to North Africa after acquiring Morocco’s Kifal Auto.

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APRIL 29, 2021

It expects to also select startups from additional countries, including Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, for this sixth cohort. In 2020, it selected 20 startups into the program (eight from Nigeria, six from Kenya, two from South Africa and one each from Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe).

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), Yet, the company plans to also diversify into providing other assets, including fractional shares, stocks and commodities. .

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2021

The company will use the Series A financing to expand into more Francophone African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Ivory Coast. Three years in, Gozem is now 250-staff strong in its four markets. Where we operate on the continent is kind of what some might call second-tier African markets.

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MARCH 15, 2021

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. And according to its website, only 12 African countries can send and receive money on the platform, but to varying degrees.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

The e-commerce platform is available in 11 markets across Africa, including Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. Jumia is currently the biggest e-commerce platform in Africa, leading hundreds of others, including Nigeria’s Marketplace Africa and South Africa’s Souq, and bidorbuy.

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JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. One of its investors from the seed round, Wamda Capital, doubled down in this new financing. It also plans to deepen its presence in the countries already present, especially Egypt and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

and Senegal-based mobile money service provider, Tugende; a Ugandan mobility-tech company; and Trade Depot, a Nigeria and U.S.-based Chapter54 is targeting startups in growth stage with some sizable traction in the countries they operate in across Europe. Partech has 15 investments in nine countries across Africa, including Wave; a U.S.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. One way it wants to carry this out will be to take its pan-African expansion seriously even though a large part of its 450 clients are based in Nigeria.

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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. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Pula co-founders and Co-CEOs (Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru). Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 million farmers.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

Baobab+ has operations in Mali, Senegal, Madagascar and Côte d’Ivoire, and is planning to enter Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo markets. Yellow, which has operations in Malawi and Uganda and allows households and small businesses to pay for solar systems through installments, received $4 million, while Baobab+ got $2.3

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AUGUST 18, 2022

These are markets where it has distributors or dealers; 13 of them are in sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Koolboks is also eyeing DRC and Ivory Coast as its next offices, Dominic said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

.” With the $14 million in funding, from investors including Energy Access Ventures (EAV), Électricité de France (EDF), Acumen Capital Partners (ACP) and Dream Project Incubators (DPI), SunCulture will expand its footprint in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Togo and Cote D’Ivoire, the company said. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

According to the accelerator, six new countries home to these companies are making their appearance for the first time : Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Chile, Brazil and Singapore. YC says 16% of the companies in its current list (44 out of 267) are based outside the U.S., compared to its first list, which included just seven non-U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities. Over 7,000 medical professionals from these facilities now provide care to more than 300,000 patients monthly.

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JULY 25, 2022

That means if SIV II makes an investment in an IDA country like Senegal and the company doesn’t do well, a portion of the investment will be covered through the structure. As part of the fund’s mandate, it will invest up to 25% of the fund in IDA countries, or low-income countries as defined by the World Bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

From hospitality to fleet management : Two brothers in Senegal are putting their hospitality management skills to work helping trucking companies with their logistics. A Robust view of robotics : Robust.AI raised $20 million to scale robot deliveries for pilot customers, reports Brian. Their company, Chargel, has now raised $2.5

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AUGUST 26, 2021

The West African region also grew the most in terms of transaction value by 46%, to over $178 billion, and countries like Ghana, Senegal and Ivory Coast are leading the charge, which presents a vast opportunity for these payment gateway providers, unlike the card payments market where two countries are prominent. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

What lies ahead for Chari following this seed round is moving into Francophone Africa; Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal top that list. When Karny is taken into account , the total number of merchants using Chari’s products extends to over 50,000.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Senegal, the region’s top destination for VC funding dropped from $16 million in 2019 to $8.8 Regional and gender diversity check. With an increase in startup activity in Francophone Africa, one would’ve expected an uptick in VC funding in the region. Well, that’s not exactly the case. million in 2020 according to Partech.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

SMS And Social Change: Lessons From Senegal Terra Weikel, UNICEF. Evolution, Creation and Extinction (of the organization) Ted Fickes, The Wilderness Society. Non-Profits and Social Media: Not the Usual Suspects David Neff, American Heart Association. The New Mainstream - Journalists Redefining Their Industry Gina Cooper, Cooper Strategies.

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Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. With 50 groups in 20 countries there’s probably a Net2Local group near you, but if there isn’t ( sob !) we’d love to help you start a new meetup. January Events.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Swizerland, India, Nigeria, Senegal and other geographies. Nearly half of the neobanks in this batch are based in the United States, while the remaining are spread across the U.K, just to name a few examples from the latest batch.

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