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South African Edtech Company, iXperience, Secures $2.5 Million in Series A Funding
South African edTech startup, iXperience (iX), has secured $2.5 million in Series A funding to enlarge its team, grow its innovative tech platform, unveil programs across various markets, and build its global strategic partnerships division.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- edtech, impact investing, startups
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Cameroon’s Maviance to Digitise Payments Across Central Africa With $3 Million Funding
Per recent reports, the $3 million investment was solely from MFS Africa, an African fintech company that connects mobile money systems to banks and other financial institutions.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigerian Fintechs Score Big on the Funding Front as Investors Spot “Final Frontier” Opportunities
We have not even reached the halfway point of 2021, but already it seems nailed on that the year will break all sorts of funding records – with the surge in investments led by the Nigerian fintech space.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard and Billetera Partner to Drive Digital Financial Inclusion in Democratic Republic of Congo
Mastercard has announced partnering with Billetera, a leading digital payments technology company headquartered in Kenya, to provide unbanked and financially excluded residents in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Malaysian B2B E-Wholesaler Lapasar Lands US $1.8 Million in Funding
The startup targets to serve 10K grocery stores, restaurants and hawker stalls over the next 24 months with its new mobile app Lapasar-Borong
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- startups
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Preparing Community Health Workers to Deploy the COVID-19 Vaccine: Five Lessons on Digital Training Learned From the Ebola Crisis
Though COVID-19 deaths continue to rise around the globe, growing access to vaccines provides a ray of hope. As Monica Amponsah, Bobbi Gray and Gigi Gatti at Grameen Foundation explain, community health workers can play a key role in bringing the vaccine to vulnerable communities in the developing world. They discuss the digital solutions Grameen Foundation developed to help community health workers support the Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone, and share five lessons for leveraging mobile tools to help these workers deploy COVID-19 vaccinations.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Kenya’s Lami Raises $1.8 Million to Scale API Insurance Platform Across Africa
Africa’s insurance market stands at a 3% penetration rate, per a McKinsey study in 2018 comparing six insurance regions on the continent.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- insurance
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Analysis: India’s Agricultural Sector Is Ready For a Tech-Enabled Makeover
Cutting-edge technology in the agriculture sector has become the need of the hour; it will not only help modernize the sector and increase yields but will also make it more cost-effective and improve livelihoods for farmers.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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