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Global Early-stage VC Antler Invites Startups Battling COVID-19 to Apply for US$500,000 Fund
April 6, 2020Global early-stage VC Antler is inviting startups tackling the COVID-19 outbreak to apply for funding. Antler...
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Twiga Foods Receives First Tranche of US$5 Million Loan from DFC to Improve Food Security in Kenya
April 2, 2020U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced the first disbursement of a US$5 million loan...
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Rwandan Women-Focussed E-commerce Kasha Secures US$1M from Finnfund
April 2, 2020Finnfund has invested US$1 million in Kasha, an E-commerce platform improving women’s access to genuine health, hygiene...
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Ghana’s HealthTech Startup Redbird Launches COVID-19 Daily Check-in App and Symptom Tracker
March 30, 2020Redbird (formerly Redbird HealthTech), a medical diagnostics distributor providing access to healthcare in Ghana through community...
Africa's Latest
54gene Launches US$500,000 Testing Support Fund to Expand Coronavirus Testing Facilities in Nigeria
March 26, 202054gene, the African genomics research, services, and development company, has launched a fund to tackle the...
Africa's Latest
Kenya’s Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform Pezesha Wins Best Catapulter Award at the CATAPULT: Inclusion Africa 2020
March 13, 2020Pezesha, a peer-to-peer micro-lending Marketplace that connects lenders with high quality, underserved, low-income borrowers, won the...
Africa's Latest
Kenyan-based Online Recruitment Platform Fuzu Raises US$3.8M Series A Led by Sparkmind
March 11, 2020Kenyan-based online recruitment platform Fuzu has raised US$3.8M (€3.4M) Series A investment round led by Sparkmind.vc....
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Nigerian Digital Identity Startup Youverify Bags US$1.5M Seed Investment Led by Orange Digital Ventures
March 10, 2020Nigerian digital identity startup Youverify has bagged US$1.5 million seed investment led by Orange Digital Ventures....
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In Brief: Kenyan HR & Payroll Startup WorkPay Joins Y Combinator
March 4, 2020WorkPay a Kenyan-based SaaS startup that provides cloud-based workforce management system with Human Resource (HR) &...
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First Entrepreneurs’ One Stop Centre Launched in Kenya
February 28, 2020Wylde International has invested US$500,000 (Kshs 50 million) in the first one-stop-shop entrepreneurs’ Centre in the...
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