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Adaverse Backs Cassava Network With A Seed Investment To Empower African Content Creators

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June 2, 2022
Adaverse, a Cardano ecosystem accelerator established to foster the growth of crypto-native projects in Africa, today announced its investment into a seed funding round for Cassava Network, a blockchain infrastructure that empowers African content creators, developers, and end-users through mutually aligned tasks and incentives. Over 40 investors, including Dragonfly, CMT Digital, YGG, Mirana…
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Nigeria Startup BetaStore Raises $2.5 Million Pre-Series A funding Round.

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May 30, 2022
With operations spread across Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast, BetaStore, a tech-enabled B2B retail startup, has closed a $2.5 million pre-series A funding round. The fund will enable BetaStore’s expansion into Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon by the end of this year, decentralizing its products and services to serve more informal retailers. The fund was received from 500…
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Paystack Partner VC4A To Help Women Founders Get Access To Capital

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May 26, 2022
The leading Nigeria fintech platform shares the below on its twitter page: Hi team  We’re partnering with our friends @VC4Africa to help women founders of fast-growing startups across Africa to access capital to grow their products. If this is you, apply here  to get the support you need.  Deadline: Friday, May 27 According press release on VC4A website: Calling for investor-ready scale-ups…
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Cliqki Reimagining the advertising market

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May 24, 2022
Cliqki is a social media marketplace for brands and influencers where content creators can create awareness for their products and services, and offer incentives to users and influencers to help promote their services. Upon realisation that traditional social media make…
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Mastercard and OPay partner boost cashless payment in Africa

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May 24, 2022
Mastercard has partnered with OPay, a seamless mobile money service provider, to grow a cashless ecosystem and advance digital financial inclusion for millions of people across middle East and Africa. This partnership is the latest milestone in Mastercard’s emerging market strategy where the technology company is collaborating with growing Fintech’s such as OPay to expand access to digital…
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