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Aplazo Takes in $27 Million To Increase Adoption of ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ in Mexico
Four months after securing a $5.25 million seed round, Mexican buy now, pay later startup Aplazo is back with an even bigger round to expand adoption of the payment plan approach across that country.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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Credlix Acquires Nuphi, Grows Supply Chain Financing Business to $100 Million
NuPhi is a Singapore based fintech company offering invoice factoring solutions to MSME exporters in India and SouthEast Asia.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: Rural Energy Leader Husk Power Systems Launches Solar Hybrid Minigrids in 6 Nigeria Communities; Targets More Than 500 Minigrids by 2026
Husk Power Systems, the rural clean energy services leader in Africa and Asia, launched its first six solar hybrid minigrids in Nigeria.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Airtel Africa, UNICEF Partner to Enhance Digital Learning in Nigeria, 12 Others
Airtel Africa and UNICEF have announced a five-year pan-African multi-million dollar partnership to scale-up digital learning for school children in Nigeria and 12 other countries in Africa.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- edtech, partnerships, scale
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Healthcare Startup Africa Health Holdings Lands $18 Million Series a Funding, to Roll-out Tech-enabled Services
Africa Health Holdings, a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go towards building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Fintech Funding in Southeast Asia Triples to Record $3.5 Billion This Year
Financial technology funding in Southeast Asia jumped more than three times in the first nine months of this year compared with full-year 2020, reaching a record $3.5 billion, a report showed.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: Global Energy Targets Don’t Deal With People’s Real Problems in Zimbabwe
Chasing technological efficiency, without addressing ever-increasing energy consumption, is missing the forest for the trees. Rather, energy efficiency must be dealt with along with problems of inequality and inequity.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Zipline Needs Nigeria To Support Its Drone Delivery Medical Service—as Rwanda and Ghana Did
Getting into Nigeria could be big for Zipline’s larger ambitions as a logistics company that can move from just delivering medical products from government to health centers, to one that delivers other types of packages to consumers.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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