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Google Announces New Initiatives to Boost Small Business Recovery
Google has committed support for startups, nonprofits and small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa to accelerate digital transformation and contribute to the country’s economic recovery.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nonprofits, startups
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DEG Backs Two African Funds with $41 Million
DEG’s funding will provide growth capital to support African businesses in their pursuit to expand and densify the digital infrastructure for Africa’s ongoing digital transformation.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WHO Tech-Transfer Hub Uses Moderna Data to Make mRNA Covid Vaccine in South Africa
Afrigen is part of the mRNA technology-transfer hub, an initiative set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year to develop the vaccine manufacturing capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Backs 40MW Kesses Solar Project in Kenya with US $35 Million Loan
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund confirmed its leading position as a provider of debt funding to Africa’s alternative energy generation sector.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria’s Reliance Health Raises $40 Million Series B funding Round
Nigerian e-health startup Reliance Health has announced the completion of a US$40 million Series B funding round to help it expand in emerging markets around the world and add to its product suite.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cassava, Nigeria’s Insurtech, Raises $4 Million for Affordable Insurance to Nigerians, Africans
Nigeria’s first full-fledged digital insurance company, Casava, has secured $4 million in pre-seed funding to provide affordable and accessible insurance products for millions of Nigerians.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nestcoin Raises $6.45 Million in Pre-Seed Capital to Accelerate Crypto and web3 Adoption in Frontier Markets
Nestcoin, a company building, operating, and investing in web3 applications, announces that it has raised $6.45 million in pre-seed capital.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s Afya Rekod Raises $2 Million Seed Funding to Digitise Health Record
Afya Rekod, a Kenyan healthtech startup solving this problem by creating a platform that digitally collects and stores people’s health records, has closed a $2 million seed funding to scale its product and expand into new African markets.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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