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African Supply Chain Sote Raises $3M Seed Round to Build Digital Logistics Infrastructure For Continent
Global logistics, a trillion-dollar industry is in dire need of a technological overhaul, with Africa nearing the top of the list, a hual ...
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SA AI-based fintech startup FinChatBot raises $1.6m to expand into Europe, West Africa
South African startup FinChatBot, a creator of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the financial services industry, has raised a US$1.6 million funding ...
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Kenyan logistics startup Lori Systems secures funding, support from Imperial
Kenyan logistics startup Lori Systems has secured funding and support from Imperial, an African and European-focused provider of integrated market access and logistics ...
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Rwanda’s Kasha expands Series A round with $1m Swedfund investment
Rwandan startup Kasha, an e-commerce platform improving women’s access to genuine health, hygiene and self-care products, has increased the size of its Series ...
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Kenyan insurtech startup Turaco raises $2m seed funding round
Kenyan micro-insurtech startup Turaco has announced the close of a US$2 million seed funding round to further grow the business and scale its ...
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Kenya-based data marketplace CARMA secures Microtraction funding to launch in Nigeria
The Kenya-based data marketplace startup CARMA, which provides lending companies with access to real-time credit data on a peer-to-peer basis through a pay-as-you-go ...
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Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa
The African continent is currently one of the fastest growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are ...
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How Nigeria’s Owoafara is connecting small businesses with finance, growth support
Nigerian startup Owoafara is on a mission to help small businesses grow and scale sustainably by connecting them with finance and business services. ...
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Challenger bank Starling is out raising a new £200M funding round
Starling founder, Anne Boden has announced that the U.K. challenger bank is on track to be profitable by Christmas, but this doesn’t mean ...
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Fliqpay enables global businesses to make easy, secure and faster cross-border payments
Sending global, cross-border payments should be easy, seamless, immediate and cost-effective. In order to scale up the kind of cross-border payment services that ...