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SVB-Led $100 Million Investment Makes Chipper Cash Africa’s ‘Most Valuable Startup’
Chipper Cash, a three-year-old startup that facilitates cross-border payment across Africa, has closed a $100 million Series C round to introduce more products and grow its team.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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upGrad Aquires Impartus
The acquisition will give an exit to Impartus’ existing investor Kaizen, which had invested $4.1 million in the startup in 2015.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Nigerian Healthtech Startup, CribMD, Closes $2.6 Million Seed Round for Product Growth and Team Expansion
Founded in June 2020, Nigerian healthtech startup, CribMD has closed a $2.6 million seed round led by US-based VC, Sputnik ATX; Swedish accelerator, Norrsken; and mass media company, The Guardian Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- accelerators, startups
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Yalo Raises $50 Million to Build ‘C-Commerce’ Services for Chat Apps Like WhatsApp
Facebook has long been working on raising WhatsApp’s profile as a channel for businesses to interact with (and sell to) their customers.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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TaniHub Bags $70 Million Series B, Aims to Expand Supply Chain
TaniHub Group, one of Indonesia's top agriculture technology start-ups, has raised US$69.5 million (Rp 942 billion) in a Series B funding round to expand its supply chain outside the islands of Java and Bali.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- South Asia
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- startups
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Nigeria’s Mono Raises Millions to Power the Internet Economy in Africa
Three months later, the startup has a different mission: to power the internet economy in Africa. It has closed $2 million in seed investment toward that goal.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indonesia’s Transfez Raises Seed Funding to Venture Into B2B Money Remittance Sector
Transfez allows users to transfer money across 50 countries in 26 currencies at a cost that is 'up to 10x cheaper than banks'
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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HER Digital Academy Announces First Fully Online Global School for Women to Launch Careers in Tech
HER Digital Academy is helping women across the world upskill and re-train individually, while also partnering with workplaces to build accelerator programs for startup founders
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- accelerators, startups
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