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Tony Elumelu Foundation Seeks Africans for its 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme Application
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy dedicated to empowering African entrepreneurs, is currently running applications on its TEFConnect digital platform (www.tefconnect.com) ...
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Genesys backs London-based startup with £8M funding transforming customer service with gig economy
‘Gig economy’ is not only confined to tech firms like Uber, Deliveroo, Lyft, and others, in fact the modern form of employment has ...
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Brass & Books Capital Group launches Oyel.Ng; a digital agro investment platform
Oyel.ng has gone live for investors to take part in the palm oil market by funding either units of palm plantations, milling and ...
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JamboPay to Use Virtual Mobile Network in Kenya
JamboPay is set to launch a virtual mobile network after obtaining a license from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA). According to reports, this ...
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Embedded finance startup Banxware raises €4M seed
Embedded finance,  the idea of offering financial products where customers are already congregating via white label solutions and APIs isn’t an entirely new ...
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India’s Zetwerk raises $120 million to scale its B2B marketplace for manufacturing parts
When you want to buy a refrigerator or a television, you can walk to the nearby electronics store or visit an e-commerce website ...
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Data automotive startup Otonomo to go public via SPAC
Otonomo, the cloud-based software startup that helps companies capture and monetize connected car data, is headed to the public market. The Israeli-based startup ...
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UNDP partners with Norrsken Foundation to support the world’s most promising impact start-ups
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is partnering with Norrsken Foundation in the launch of the global Impact Accelerator; a pre-seed accelerator investing in the best ...
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Algorand names 11 blockchain startups for its first accelerator program
The Algorand Foundation, the research body behind smart contract protocol Algorand, has selected 11 startups for its inaugural accelerator program, a move that ...
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Mono, a startup that wants to build Plaid for Africa, gets backing from Y Combinator
Prakhar Singh and ex-Paystack employee, Abdul Hassan have known each other for seven years, building different tech products individually and collectively along the way. Before joining Paystack in ...