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Kenyan MNO Safaricom launches 2nd edition of Spark Venture Fund, ups size to $6m
Leading Kenyan mobile network operator (MNO) Safaricom has announced the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund, which will invest a total of ...
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Tanzanian fintech Mipango joins NVIDIA Inception programme
Tanzanian fintech startup Mipango has been selected to take part in NVIDIA Inception, a virtual programme designed to nurture startups revolutionising industries with ...
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Luxury Venture Group Selects Its First Luxury Innovation Award Start-Up Winners
In 2019, Deependra Pandey founded the Luxury Venture Group (LVG), a first-of-its-kind Swiss incubator dedicated to the collaboration between startups operating in the ...
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Nigerian cryptocurrency startup Yellow Card nets $1.5 million in seed round
Nigerian cryptocurrency startup Yellow Card — which is aiming to make it easier for consumers in Africa to buy and sell cryptocurrency — ...
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Zurich-based fintech i2invest raises €1.2 million and launches first investment products
Swiss fintech, i2invest has announced closing a seed investment round of approximately €1.2 million. The funds will be used to further develop the ...
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Deutsche Bank opens applications for second Female Fintech Competition
Deutsche Bank has joined forces with Atos, Google and TechQuartier to launch the second Female FinTech Competition. FinTechs with a female founder or ...
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Kenyan startup myNGOVO launches salary advance app
Kenyan fintech startup, myNGOVO has launched a personal finance app that aids employers offer salary advances as an employee benefit with no interest ...
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Pakistani fintech Safepay receives Y Combinator’s backing
Karachi-based Safepay has become the first fintech company from Pakistan to have graduated from Y Combinator. Founded in 2019 by Ziyad Parekh and ...
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Turing raises $14M to help source, vet, place and manage remote developers in tech jobs
The emergence, and now seemingly extended presence, of the novel coronavirus health pandemic has made remote working into a pretty standard part of ...
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Swedish startup Open Payments raises €3 million
Swedish fintech Open Payments has raised €3 million in seed funding backed by Nordic VC Industrifonden. Existing investors Brightly Ventures, Luminar Ventures, and ...
