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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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APRIL 29, 2021

Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. It expects to also select startups from additional countries, including Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, for this sixth cohort.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Vincent Previ , the managing director of Chapter54, told TechCrunch that startups will be taken through several preparation stages, including mentorship programs with founders running successful enterprises across the continent, and with C-suite tech or startup executives. “We based company that connects consumer goods brands to retailers.

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JUNE 9, 2022

His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. However, finding a sizable number in Tunis was tough. “At

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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 has been investing in companies in Africa for a decade and continues to be excited about the growth of the African tech ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. With a presence in six African countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Kenya and Uganda — Helium Health has signed more than 500 healthcare facilities.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

There are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of companies playing in the cross-border remittances field, from incumbents like Western Union through a myriad of tech players, some of which have gone public and some of which remain privately held.

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MARCH 6, 2025

In Africa, the program provided air quality data for over a dozen countries including Senegal, Nigeria, Chad, and Madagascar. He said vulnerable people in Pakistan and around the world are particularly at risk as they are the least likely to have access to other reliable data. Some of those countries depend almost entirely on the U.S.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech. One is access to markets , which alone is a huge source of food waste, and the other is food security because of a lack of stable growing conditions exacerbated by climate change.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 Most tech observers share Cuvelier’s thoughts on VC activity in Africa. Partech: The venture capital outfit pegged funding for African tech at $6.5 Outside the top four countries, startups from Ghana, Algeria, Tunisia and Senegal raised the most equity funding.

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JULY 25, 2022

Patricia Sosrodjojo, partner at Seedstars, told TechCrunch that the second fund’s investment thesis is similar to its predecessor: to come in at very early stages, in tech ecosystems in emerging markets, and look for startups that have the potential to make a wide impact. “I I think of it as three different levels,” she said.

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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. Big Tech Inc. A Robust view of robotics : Robust.AI raised $20 million to scale robot deliveries for pilot customers, reports Brian. You can sign up here.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

According to Partech, fintech represented 25% of total African funding raised last year, with agritech, logistics & mobility, off-grid tech, and healthtech sectors following behind. Senegal, the region’s top destination for VC funding dropped from $16 million in 2019 to $8.8 Regional and gender diversity check. million.

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SMS And Social Change: Lessons From Senegal Terra Weikel, UNICEF. Bumpin Up: Has the Glass Ceiling Ever Smacked You in the Butt Allyson Kapin, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech. Evolution, Creation and Extinction (of the organization) Ted Fickes, The Wilderness Society. Digital Protests: Social Media as Activism Ramya Raghavan, YouTube.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

. “All my UK ISA [Individual Savings Account, an account that allows users to save and invest free from UK tax] I saved for the past 15 years was what I lost,” Victor Asemota , a veteran of the Nigerian tech industry and strong advocate for FTX in Africa, narrated to TechCrunch on a call. I never knew it could happen to me.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: It's Legal for Nonprofits to Lobby, Organize, and Advocate! San Francisco, California: Tech for Good Monthly Mixer.

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We’ve since welcomed virtual Sprinters from 25+ countries around the globe, including Australia, Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Brazil. So as travel began to pick up and in-person events resumed, we wanted to find a way to combine the spirit of face-to-face collaboration with the inclusive access that virtual provides.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Health tech startup Fedo also algorithmically generates health scores, quantifying a person’s risk for diseases and their propensity to claim. Founded in 2020, the Nigeria-based startup claims to have distributed over 140,000 goods to retail customers in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal and fielded over 20,000 orders.

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MARCH 1, 2025

Snchez toured Mauritania, Senegal, and Gambia last year to promote a temporary work scheme whereby African workers could get legal and safe passage to Spain. Meanwhile, the stream of migrant boats journeying from Africas west coast to Spains Canary Islands has created a humanitarian crisis. Countless die in the attempt.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. Dakar, Senegal: L’atelier de mise en place du réseau net2 Dakar. Toronto, Canada: Tech Planning for 2014: Trends and Best Practices. we’d love to help you start a new meetup. January Events. Saturday, January 4. Sunday, January 5.

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If you’re fancy and tech-oriented, you can text that number and you will get it. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. And then if you want to just go to this particular address, you can get it as well. I’m happy to send it to you afterwards.

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APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot.

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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.), The seed investment will see Ejara focus extensively on growth, deployment of features in the company’s roadmap and expanding the product and tech team.

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JUNE 29, 2022

Adanian Labs targets idea-phase tech startups, offering them all-round support including capital, advisory and operational backing; building them from the ground up. And so, at Adanian Labs, we are not only building startups, we are building the next generation of African tech experts,” said Murgor, also head of the labs tech team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Before Francophone Africa minted its first unicorn in the form of fintech startup Wave , which shed some light on the opportunities that abound in the market, Francophone Africa has been largely left out of the tech and startup disruption sweeping across other African regions, particularly in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt.

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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. Molotov is taking care of operations and the tech stack.

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MARCH 10, 2025

In 2019, teams across Senegal, Bangladesh, Mexico, and Indonesia painted a total of 250,000 small household rooftops with white reflective pain as part of the Million Cool Roofs Challenge. The power of paint Many cities have turned to paint to alleviate urban problems like the heat island effect. In 2022, the city of L.A.

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