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Yellow Card Lands $33 million Series C To Fund Growth and Expansion
Yellow Card, founded in Nigeria in 2019, is a fintech company that operates in 20 countries and facilitates more than $3 billion in transactions across the continent
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Kenya’s Sistema.bio Secures $15 million In Seed Funding To Boost Clean Energy Technology Across Africa
With its operations cutting across three continents, Sistema.bio boasts of positively transforming the lives of over 100,000 farms and more than 600,000 people worldwide while reducing over 1 million tons of CO2e emissions annually.
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Seed Funding Fuels Lapaire Expansion Plans Into Senegal, Tanzania
The Lapaire Brand Glasses Lapaire has landed funding from AfricInvest and Proparco to expand its area of influence. This development comes nine months after the startup raised $3 million to drive expansion across the continent. Proparco and AfricInvest together approved financing for Lapaire Glasses SA, an optical retail chain offering quality eyewear at a fair
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Transform Health Fund Secures $111 million, Targets More Health-tech Startups
Funding to bolster African Health-Tech System 11th October, 2024 Pan-African investment, AfricInvest, has announced that it has successfully closed its Transform Health Fund (THF), surpassing its initial $100 million benchmark in the process. The funding, with a final figure pegged at $111 million, was managed in partnership with the Health Finance Coalition (HFC). The Health
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Equator Africa Lands $5 Million Funding To Boost Climate Tech Innovation in Africa
Climate Tech to contribute to combating climate change
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TUNL Successfully Secures Seed Funding for eCommerce Export Growth in South Africa
South African shipping company for eCommerce exporters, TUNL, has completed a seed round to boost marketing support for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This funding comes ten months after the startup announced its $1 million pre-seed funding to accelerate its expansion within its primary market, South Africa. At the same time, it aims to
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Yellow Malawi Secures $2 Million Funding To Light Up Malawi
Malawi is reportedly one of the least electrified countries in the world, with 11% of the population connected to electricity, 42% in cities and only 4% in villages.
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South African Consortium Launches $17 Million Seed Funding To Bolster Indigenous Startups
Funding to provide early stage capital to at least 50 startups
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Proparco Grants Loan To Rubyx To Speed Up Development
Rubyx CEO says Proparco’s backing will help speed up implementation of digital lending solutions
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Kenyan E-Commerce Startup Chpter Raises $1.2 Million in Pre-seed Funding
Chpter’s Acceptance into Norssken and Safaricom Park Accelerator Programs May Have Strengthened Closing Pre-seed Deal
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Kredete Raises $2.25M In Seed Funding To Help African Immigrants Make Payments
Kredete, a Nigerian financial software platform has raised US$2.25 million in seed funding to help it further scale across the continent. Having already built a presence in up to 20 African countries, Kredete is focused on enabling African Immigrants to builf credit scores and send money back home. Kredete was founded in 2023 with the
Energy & mobility · Rwanda
Rwanda’s Ampersand secures $2 million in additional funding
AHL Venture Partners and Everstrong Capital back the electric-mobility company’s expansion in East Africa.
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Waza Bursts Into The Scene With $8M Global Trade Boost For African Businesses
Payments and liquidity platform aims to solve trade deficits resulting from increasing demand for the dollar