In sub-Saharan Africa, 90% of retail is informal, highly inefficient and characterised by layers of intermediaries. To curb this, Twiga, a B2B ecommerce startup is launching Twiga Fresh, a new
Kenya-based B2B company, Sokowatch has raised $125 million in Series B round in full equity and rebranded to Wasoko. This funding is the largest funding round raised in Africa for
Ghanaian e-commerce platform Tendo has launched in Nigeria after securing investments from leading accelerators such as Catalyst Fund, Google, and Y Combinator.
The startup, allows anyone to start an online
To shore up mobile money and electronic transactions in the country, the Bank of Uganda has announced that it will lower cheque value limits for amounts above the equivalent of
Afrikrea, an Ivory Coast-based startup and e-commerce platform for all things made of Africa, has raised a $6.2 million pre-Series A funding round and rebranded as “ANKA.”
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