TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Now, it offers rides, parcel delivery, food and shop, payments, savings and other financial services to over 1 million customers in Uganda and its second market, Nigeria. The motorcycle ride-hailing wars in Nigeria and Uganda are SafeBoda’s to lose.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

Our greatest challenge is to recruit serious volunteers especially from the international community that may be willing to come to Uganda to share with us their skills, knowledge, experience, expertise, ideas, and resources. Instead, we utilize the services of volunteers both local and international, as well as online and on-site.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the company, its food delivery business didn’t align with the current operational landscape and prevailing macroeconomic conditions in the seven markets, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Ivory Coast. As a result, Jumia Food will […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Egyptian B2B e-commerce startup MaxAB and Wasoko, a Kenya-based e-commerce player with operations in Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, are in talks to merge operations, TechCrunch has exclusively learned from multiple sources. They say talks are still ongoing and the agreement hasn’t been finalized yet.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Our experience in Uganda helped us see how valuable technology and fundraising is to creating change. Interview: Rob Wu, CauseVox Founder.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and. promoting human rights. BeadforLife Store. Best Friends Animal Society Store.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

M-KOPA started with solar-power home systems targeted at lower-income and rural customers without electricity in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Six years ago, it was heavily focused on East Africa, but having pulled out of Tanzania, M-KOPA is present in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The company said its food delivery business is not aligned with the current operational landscape and prevailing macroeconomic conditions in the seven markets, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Ivory Coast. As a result, Jumia will cease […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

New SMS Services in Uganda from Grameen, Google & MTN | WhiteAfrican - Interested in new technologies, esepcially mobile tech and the health sector?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2011

They've also done a similar project in Tanzania and Uganda. They are also planning on tracking next year's elections in Kenya. Given the election violence of a few years ago, this is a major area of work in Kenya to help prevent a re-occurrence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. to Nigeria and Uganda is currently live for users in those markets. the CEO says that users in Uganda, South Africa and Kenya will be the first to get access next year. In May, it expanded to the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The company, having raised more than $90 million in total from investors such as Valar Ventures and Target Global, is also planning an expansion outside Africa to Pakistan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Its core product is for motorcycle riders in Kenya and Uganda, with a lease-to-own or hire-purchase package. Talking about clients, Tugende currently has more than 43,000 across Kenya and Uganda. The company currently has more than 520 employees, with 20 branches in Uganda and four in Kenya.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2012

They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Uganda is no different except for one thing: its amazing NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa, Robert Kibaya. Robert Kibaya is our veteran volunteer in Uganda, where he helped found and supports five NetSquared groups. My wife Florence and our four-month old son, Jotham, live in Mukono, Uganda near Lake Victoria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But in Uganda, the industry had already taken off, albeit slowly, through Rocket Health , a startup working to transform the delivery of medical care using technology. Also, 12 insurance companies have signed up, giving it access to a pool of customers within Uganda and across East Africa since most of them have a regional presence. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. We’re scaling that up, not just being in Tanzania and Kenya and Uganda as a consumer-facing product. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen. and the E.U.,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2015

Alongside Africa is a tiny nonprofit: half a dozen people generally working from their homes in the UK to support an even smaller handful based across Uganda. "There are very few landlines in Uganda, and it is very expensive to call from here to mobiles. The nonprofit's mission and ethos is very specific.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now. Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

To date, it has provided more than $2 million in unsecured credit to 3,000 micro and small businesses in Uganda, disbursing around $250,000 per month. ” With this new financing, Numida plans to expand aggressively in Uganda and pilot in a new market, preferably in West Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

They paved the way for all of us and their contribution to nonprofit history should be noted: To Write Love on Her Arms; Invisible Children; National Wildlife Federation; the Humane Society of the United States; Seacology; Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network; Americans for the Arts; Oxfam America; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Department of State just funded us to help LGBT groups in Uganda securely capture documentation of abuses against those communities (again, our funders are not responsible for this post). We work all over the world, and our Martus software has been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Khmer and other languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

From capturing the stories of human rights violations in Guatemala, Burma, Syria and Uganda, to helping a biologist plan a better restoration of a wetlands, or matching up an open source geek with the social good project of his or her dreams, Benetech’s team is using technology to make the world a better place.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

20% of profits from Gorilla Conservation Coffee goes to help conserve critically endangered gorillas and their fragile habitat in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. Ethically sourced tea from Certified Elephant Friendly Tea farms that help avoid human/elephant conflict by providing safe passage for elephants.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Its services are used across seven African countries — Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. to Nigeria and Uganda. . to Nigeria and Uganda. CEO Ham Serunjogi founded Chipper Cash with Maijid Moujaled in 2018 to offer a no-fee peer-to-peer cross-border payment service in Africa via its app.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Salient surveyed over 80 companies across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, 25% more than the number it tracked in its last report in 2021. Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company, which was founded in Kenya seven years ago, plans to first scale in Kenya and Uganda, before exploring other markets backed by a $1.3 The company, which was founded in Kenya seven years ago, plans to first scale in Kenya and Uganda, before exploring other markets backed by a $1.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies. In September 2019, it let go of 420 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. Then Uganda, Rwanda,” CEO Jeremy Johnson told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

And what started in Kenya soon scaled into neighboring East African markets Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda in 2018. 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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Two years on, the company, which now has more than 1,000 employees, is ready to make those moves and is expanding to other East African markets, Uganda and Tanzania, before the end of the year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

We've been honored to support J-FLAG in their work, and we believe that our work with J-FLAG has helped lead to our new major project helping LGBT groups in Uganda and other African countries. Jamaican lawyer and activist Maurice Tomlinson of J-FLAG will be recognized next month.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

These applications came from 19 countries (including 14 African countries) and Yusuf said the company received the most entries from Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. . 10,000, almost ~$20) to participate in AltSchool’s software engineering program, which starts in April.

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TechCrunch

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

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He started the company in 2009, facilitating peer-to-peer transactions from Kenya to Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast, and vice versa. If someone is sending money from Kenya to Uganda in less than a minute, someone needs to be out of pocket. That’s the grand mission of the company.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

“We are currently focused on leveraging financial services in order to monetize because we provide our software for free,” Usiri said, adding that they see a $1 billion revenue opportunity on the lending side, across Tanzania, its only market currently, and in neighboring countries Kenya and Uganda.

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