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Tech
MEST Africa 2023 Entrepreneurial Training Program for Tech Startups
MEST offers a 12-month graduate-level training to aspiring entrepreneurs across the African continent. The entrepreneurial training program in business, communications,…
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Funding
Kenya Leads Debt Funding to African Startups With $608 Million
Venture capital witnessed a correction of sorts in 2022 as VC activity dropped from the highs experienced in 2021. Every…
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Funding
Yassir Raises $150m Series B To Ramp Up Africa And Global Expansion
Yassir, a San Francisco-based Algerian super-app offering on-demand services and financial services, has closed a $150 million Series B funding…
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Funding
Nigerian Start-up, Remedial Health Raised $4.4 Million From Global Ventures, Tencent, Y Combinator, Cathexis Ventures, LightSpeed Venture Partners Scout Fund, Ventures Platform, Alumni Ventures and True Capital Management
Focused on tackling the widespread use of counterfeit drugs across Africa, starting with Nigeria, Remedial Health has closed a $4.4…
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Press Release
Y Combinator Dishes Out Advice to Start-ups
Despite being incredibly selective (with an approval rate of roughly 1.5%), about 20% of YC (Y Combinator) start-ups have already…
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Fintech
Moroccan B2B eCommerce and Fintech startup, Chari, valued at $70mn, secures $5mn seed round
After completing the summer‘21 batch of Y Combinator, Chari announces the closing of a $5mn seed round co-led by Rocket…
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Funding
Zambia’s Union54 secures $3m round for its card-issuing API
Union54, the first Zambian startup backed by Y Combinator, has just landed a $3mn seed round, coming only two months…
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Food & Agriculture
Nigeria’s Agri-tech startup, Releaf, secures US$4.2mn in seed equity for operational expansion
Releaf, a startup that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions to drive the industrialization of food processing in Africa, has…
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Fintech
Nigerian fintech startup, Prospa, secures $3.8mn in pre-seed investment
Prospa a Nigeria-based is looking to serve the 40 million-plus underserved micro-enterprises across the county. It was only in March when the company…
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Morocco E-commerce startup, Chari.ma, purchases mobile credit book application: Karny.ma
Chari.ma, a fintech and e-commerce startup, has announced the acquisition of the mobile credit book application Karny.ma. Karny.ma. latter is…
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