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UK-Nigeria mobile wallet Sendit.Money goes crowdfunding
Sendit.Money, a mobile wallet targeting remittance corridors between the UK and Nigeria, is currently in the throws of its crowdfunding campaign. With 16 ...
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Connected Analytics, parent company of ThankUCash, raises seven-digit pre-Series A to expand operations
Nigerian retail-tech/analytics startup, Connected Analytics, has secured a seven-figure pre-Series A funding. The round, (exact figure of which CEO, Simeon Ononobi asked to ...
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10 amazing Austrian startups to watch in 2021 and beyond
Austria’s startup scene has been garnering increasing attention in the past few years. Ranking as a top country in Europe for public pre-seed funding by ...
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Ex-HSBC innovation exec Diana Biggs joins digital assets startup Valour
Swiss digital asset startup Valour has appointed the former global head of innovation at HSBC Private Banking, Diana Biggs, as its CEO. Valour ...
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Kenyan startup Finplus passes $500m transaction value mark
Kenyan fintech startup Finplus Group has announced its software has now processed over US$503 million in combined transaction value in less than four ...
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Startup Nymbus Closes $53 Million Series C to Scale BaaS
Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Nymbus raised $53 million in a Series C funding round led by existing investor Insight Partners. “As the pandemic has pushed digital to ...
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How African startups raised investments in 2020
The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in ...
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Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed
The founders of Accord, an early-stage startup focused on bringing order to B2B sales, are not your typical engineer founders. Instead, the two brothers, ...
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Level closes $1.5M to provide financial services to gig workers
This morning Level, a Seattle-based startup that offers credit to gig-economy workers, announced that it has raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round. Level intends ...
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Robinhood’s pain is Public’s gain as VCs rush to give it more money
Public.com, a social-focused free stock trading service, is nearing the close of a Series D just two months after raising a $65 million ...