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KudiGo & Boost Ghana companies enable informal micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Ghana to grow their businesses and better leverage digital commerce. Boost Ghana and KudiGo have received USD $120,000 from the Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce accelerator to enable small retailers to grow by easing business administration, digitizing operations, improving access... -
Bongo Live!, now Beem, which offers a wide range of services including advanced SMS Messaging, USSD, Airtime, Chatbot, Mobile Money Integration capabilities, and On-Boarding Tools, is also expanding to serve its international audience and multinational clients such as Samsung, Nestle, and Qatar Airways.... -
Ghana’s AgroCenta has raised $790k to enable AgroCenta to further develop its smallholder farmer inclusion programs and procure crops at transparent and fair market prices to service offtake contracts.... -
Ghana’s Zeepay plans to raise $10m in equity funding to support the creation of new mobile-money hubs in East and Southern Africa, Andrew Takyi-Appiah, co-founder and managing director, tells The Africa Report.... -
Calendly had earlier raised around $200,000 from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq CapitalOpen to help users connect with their personal and business calendars to save time and simplify the tasks involved in meeting with people outside your company.... -
An e-commerce startup based in Ghana, Seven Inc, is seeking to revolutionize Africa’s tech space, particularly in Ghana. Africa’s nascent tech space is fast attracting both foreign and local investment. Several African tech startups have successfully raised venture capital funding to expand their operations or improve upon the service... -
Mastercard Foundation has partnered with InTouch to support their 10,000 Jambaars project, which will deploy a network of 10,000 agents to provide digital services across the continent, most of whom will be young people and, particularly, young women.... -
The Togolese Government has adopted digital technology to boost agricultural production, has announced the launch of interest-free loans to farmers across the West African nation. The Togolese Government, which has been adopting digital technology to boost agricultural production, has announced the launch of interest-free loans to farmers across the... -
Tanzania's Kilimo Fresh Foods Africa Limited has been announced as the overall winner of the MEST Africa Challenge 2020. They walk away with an investment totalling $50,000 and will be welcomed into one of MEST’s Hubs for a year of support and incubation. Kilimo Fresh is a company from Tanzania...
