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The war against cash in Africa is solving the wrong people’s problems, says Marcello Schermer, head of expansion at Yoco. Many cashless society initiatives don’t really solve merchant problems. The solutions that will win in the end will be the ones that can combine payment services with value-added services to help the merchant make more money and the consumer pay in a more effective and rewarding way. Read the article now on Techcabal.
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Airtel Africa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel has raised $1.25 billion shot in the arm, and an IPO is in the works. Six investors including Temasek, Warburg Pincus, Softbank Group and Singtel participated in the deal. Go deeper here.
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Kenya’s government has earmarked a billion shillings — that’s just under $10 million — to stimulate local phone manufacturing and software development, according to the Cabinet Secretary of the ICT ministry, Joe Mucheru, in hopes of cutting down mobile phone imports.
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South Africa’s national power company is going in on renewable energy and is exploring the use of batteries to get rid of its “load shedding” blackouts. The plan has the support of the African Development Bank.
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| The Lagos Angel Network has partnered with Bank of Industry to host an inaugural learning and business networking event themed “Raising capital for your startup.” The event will hold on Friday, November 2. Find out more and apply here. |
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| Three African fintech startups have been listed in Fintech 100 list presented by H2 Ventures and KPMG. They are Cellulant (Kenya), ThisIsMe (South Africa), and Wallet.ng (Nigeria). |
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South African startup Uprise.Africa has secured funding from Nexxus Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm aimed at growing innovative companies and transforming founders into “Disruptrepreneurs”. Their words. The funding amount was undisclosed.
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Out of 30 DEMO Africa finalists, five have been selected to travel to Silicon Valley for the 2019 edition of the Lions@frica Innovation tour. The selected startups are Chefaa (Egypt), Khourtim (Morocco), VertoFX (Nigeria), Hawkar (Tunisia) and Complete Farmer (Ghana).
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