TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API. In 2020 we hosted African Renaissance Conference with @wizaj and @mwiyas and that turned into how can we position Zambia as the city on the hill for African interests. Union54 hopes to create a homegrown alternative to Mastercard or Visa.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

10 Questions for Camfed — Camfed International – Jordan Ridge and Kristy Green will be traveling to northern Zambia this week to meet students, filmakers, and young entrepreneurs in the communities where Camfed works – and you can go with them! Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. A goat for a family farm in Zambia. To celebrate, ChildFund International is giving gifts of agricultural love and hope from the organization’s gift catalog for every 200 Twitter followers @childfund. Mango trees in Kenya. Vegetable seeds in Ethiopia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API. Union54, despite being based in Zambia, has customers across Africa. However , it seems the trio are almost identical, considering the features each company claims to have on their sites.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Akinin launched a startup to offer digital mortgages but pivoted to a construction company with a presence in Namibia, Zambia and Cameroon. He would later make a series of visits to top African cities like Johannesburg, Lagos and Addis Ababa, but it was in Windhoek that he found the spark to try something new.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

The Sudanese- and San Fransisco-based startup plans to expand across the Anglo East African region like Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia and ammunition coming from an imminent seed round will oversee that process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The documentation projects of our partners in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have yielded so far six high-quality publications or reports about violations against LGBTI individuals in their communities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

It also has a presence in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria, where it says its customers tripled over the last one year. It has sold its products in over 40 countries including Kenya, one of its first markets, where it reports to have benefited 18 million people over 10 years of operations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

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. Later, she would study accounting and business at the University of Notre Dame, where she met Umubyeyi. After moving to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

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. Later, she would study accounting and business at the University of Notre Dame, where she met Umubyeyi. After moving to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Impact Rooms team is currently spread across the world with some of its experts in Kenya , Zambia, Ghana, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Australia, US, UK and Switzerland. 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

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 25, 2021

Microtraction revealed that it accepted over 500 applications from startups in Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, and Mauritius in its first full year of operation. But as a sign of how the market is firming up, that changed last year and now the firm invests $25,000 for 7% equity. Though, just eight of those companies got investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In terms of active operational markets, though, the fintech is present in six African markets — Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ivory Coast and South Asian country Pakistan. Presently, the fintech only states Cape Town, Nairobi, Porto and London as its primary operational and tech hubs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. 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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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

KlashaCheckout allows merchants outside Africa to collect payments from six countries on the continent — Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Kenya — and get paid in G20 currencies like dollars, pounds or euros. Klasha has a suite of business- and consumer-facing products connected via one API.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. With JABU, merchants can order, stock and pay for their products via Jwallet and expect same-day delivery, the YC-backed company said. CEO David Akinin said that number has increased by 50%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

As highlighted this March and reiterated in the interview, Bloom’s founders say this seed round will help the Sudanese- and Dubai-based startup execute its expansion plan across the Anglo-East African region such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. A few competitors in the region include YC-backed Fingo, Koa and Finclusion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. The number of virtual centers is primed to grow further alongside mPharma’s plan to increase its community pharmacies by 10 times over the next three years, from the current 200 centers.

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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

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. Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Already, CBDCs are taking off in Africa, with Zambia and Kenya being the latest countries to test their viability. Last year, Nigeria became the first country in Africa to introduce its digital currency (E-naira) while Ghana is said to be in the final stages of launching E-cedi.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This goal is achievable for the startup, which has successfully conducted campaigns across multiple markets in Africa including Mauritius, Mozambique, Zambia and Cameroon. “We Wowzi is now eyeing over 1 million job opportunities in the short term as it establishes a strong pan-African presence.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Rwanda are the other markets the tech startup has operations in. The firm also partnered with Mt. Meru Group, a gas station operator in Rwanda, last November to establish pharmacy branches within its outlets.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Let me illustrate with an example I learned from Zambia: many medicines cannot be found in remote regions of Sub-Saharan Africa because of hard-to-solve bottlenecks in healthcare, such as poor infrastructure and logistics systems. The organization I studied in Zambia worked around them by piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution channels.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

million users and over 300,000 homes and businesses use Zola products across multiple African countries — Ivory Coast, Ghana, Namibia, DRC, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria. .” More than 1.5 Outside Africa, the company is also present in the U.S., Brazil, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, are set to benefit from the virtual consultations. It is raising more funding to further grow its business across the continent.

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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 you sign to any mobile wallet somewhere in the world, starting with Africa, it should be enough to transact with anybody else in the world. That’s the grand mission of the company.” .

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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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AFP Blog

JULY 11, 2011

As thunder cracks and lightning flashes over the roof of a family home in Remuera, a young woman from Zambia peers from a computer screen into a world she has only ever read about."

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The big data company has provided its software to partners and governments in Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Brazil, Vietnam, Mozambique and Pakistan. But despite that, Zenysis’s data platform and the government’s vaccine campaign provided a positive outcome.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 20, 2012

Google, World Bank use Map Maker to improve Africa's disaster response( - Internet-based applications and services ) : Innhold a- Google, World Bank use Map Maker to improve Africa's disaster response o Michael Malakata 19.01.2012 kl 18:33 | Computerworld Zambia By providing access to a Web-based community mapping tool and data, World Bank and Google (..)

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Recognizing this opportunity for AI to unblock access to potentially lifesaving information, we’ve spent the last couple of years working in collaboration with academic partners and researchers in the US and Zambia to improve and expand the ability to automatically interpret ultrasound video captures acquired by simply sweeping an ultrasound probe (..)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To help tell this story better, (RED) recently took a trip with one of our supporters, Roche, to Zambia to film a series of labs that are conducting life-saving tests and giving patients and doctors critical information in the fight against preventable diseases.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits. Lusaka, Zambia: Social Media Surgery. Sunday, March 5, 2017. Cotonou, Benin: Nous Allons Parler de Toutes les Maniere de Web à Utiliser PR Lutter Contre VIH. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Modern Nonprofits Use the Cloud. Wednesday, March 8, 2017.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits. Lusaka, Zambia: Social Media Surgery. Kibiribiri Village, Mukono , Uganda: First Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Sunday, February 19, 2017. Monday, February 20, 2017. Friday, February 24, 2017. Friday, March 3, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t t have a habit of reading on the web. I blogged a discussion on web2.0 Your blog is almost a year old!

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