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WellaHealth, Flex Finance and PayMeNow join Catalyst Fund backed by UK Aid and JP Morgan Chase

FinTech

23rd June 2020

WellaHealth and Flex Finance, both from Nigeria, and South African startup PayMeNow are among six startups joining Catalyst Fund’s newest cohort of startups to be funded for their work on financial inclusion. Each of them will receive £80,000 (about $100,000) in grants with Catalyst, a US-based accelerator, having no equity stake. The programme is focused […]

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