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IProcure: Kenyan Agritech Startup Secures $10.2 Million Series B Funding
IProcure is enabling the lowering of food costs and lessening the climate impact of agriculture by ensuring smallholder farmers can plant their crops on time and achieve higher crop yields while using less land.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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Nora’s Digitalization Challenges: What the MSE Sector Can Learn From the Digital Journey of a Woman Entrepreneur in Peru
Women entrepreneurs are a driving force for digitalization, showing less resistance and a higher level of trust toward digital business tools than their male counterparts. Gianmarco Cheng and Juan Navarrete at Fundación Capital share some key initial results from an ongoing study in Colombia, Mexico and Peru, which highlight ways to promote the adoption and use of digital tools by micro and small enterprises (MSEs). They discuss the impact these tools have had on Nora, a microentrepreneur in Peru, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by digitalization efforts across the MSE sector.
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- Technology
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Togo’s New Cybersecurity Center will Serve the Whole of Africa
A new cybersecurity center in Togo is poised to add into efforts by individual African countries to secure the continent’s cyberspace.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Savings Fintech Jar Lands $22.6 Million in Series B Funding
The start-up says the influx of cash will be used to fuel the development of its products and technology for hiring new talent.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Edtech Company Sunstone Bags $35 Million In Series C in India
Sunstone is planning to utilize the fresh funds to expand its presence from the current 35+ cities to 100 cities across India.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Liquid Continues to Expand Across Zambia
The company says that this launch will bring high-speed connectivity and a suite of intelligent technologies to the district for the first time.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fuse Capital Looks to Raise $50 Million to Invest in Latin America Web3 Startups
Brazilian-based Fuse Capital has started raising Fuse Capital Fund II, whose central thesis will be investing in the next generation of web3 startups in Latin America.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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Augmented Reality for Financial Literacy: An Innovative Approach to Delivering Immersive Customer Education
India's Business Correspondents – i.e., retail agents engaged by banks to provide financial services at locations other than a bank branch – often struggle to learn about the new products and services their banks offer. And though online training has become the new normal during the pandemic, many of these agents find it difficult to complete. Piyush Singh and Rahul Ranjan Sinha at Grameen Foundation India discuss the value of augmented reality in addressing this challenge – and in enhancing online financial education more broadly for underserved customers.
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- Education, Finance, Technology
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