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Ghanian health startup mPharma launches in Ethiopia
mPharma, the Ghanaian startup that manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers announced that it has entered Ethiopia through a franchise ...
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Nigerian startups Autochek, Okra partner to offer car loans to customers
Nigerian startups Autochek and Okra have partnered in order to offer users of the former access to digital car loans facilitated by the ...
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Pegasus Tech Ventures and Japanet launch new $50M fund to bring global startups to Nagasaki
Pegasus Tech Ventures, a firm that helps corporations launch startup investment funds, announced a new partnership with Japanet. Japanet, one of Japan’s largest ...
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10 promising Portugal-based startups to watch in 2021
Portugal’s startup scene has been slowly but steadily growing over the last few years. Lisbon and Porto take the spotlight as the main ...
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Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave achieves “unicorn” status after $170m funding round
Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave has closed a US$170 million Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an African tech startup ...
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Fintech start-up Payoneer partners with Mastercard ahead of $3 billion public offering
Digital payments company Payoneer is partnering with Mastercard to offer small businesses a digital payments card. The Payoneer Digital Purchasing Mastercard will allow the company’s customers to ...
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Nigerian cleantech startup, Havenhill, raises $4.6m
Nigerian cleantech startup, Havenhill Synergy Limited, has raised $4.6m from Chapel Hill Denham Nigeria Infrastructure Debt Fund (NDIF) to aid the construction of ...
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DataGrail snares $30M Series B to help deal with privacy regulations
DataGrail, a startup that helps customers understand where their data lives in order to help comply with a growing body of privacy regulations, ...
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Cloud cybersecurity startup Lumu raises a $7.5 million Series A
Miami-based cybersecurity startup Lumu has announced the closing of its $7.5 million Series A. The round was co-led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s SB ...
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Via buys mapping startup Remix for $100 million
Remix, the startup that developed mapping software used by cities for transportation planning and street design, was born out of a hackathon during ...