StartupsTechnology

Stears, a Nigerian data startup, raises $3.3 million with the support of Mac VC and Serena Ventures.

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October 12, 2022
Stears, a Nigerian data startup, has completed a $3.3 million seed round in order to grow throughout other African nations. Leading the round was MaC Venture Capital. Additionally participating were Serena Ventures, the Luminate Fund of the Omidyar Group, Melo 7 Tech Partners, and Cascador. One of the 60 companies chosen for the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund 2022 batch in September 2022…
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Vendease, closes a $30 million Series A round

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October 8, 2022
Vendease was established in 2019 by Wale Oyepeju, Gatumi Aliyu, Olumide Fayankin, and Tunde Kara to connect food businesses with suppliers. However, the company soon ran into other difficulties, including sluggish delivery and quality control issues. The company began…
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Mara Promotes Digital Finance in Africa by Offering Free Education

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October 8, 2022
Mara, a Pan-African digital finance ecosystem, has recently gathered over 4,000 digital finance and blockchain enthusiasts across Northern Nigeria to educate them at its first-ever community hangout in the region. According to the company, this educational hangout is in line with the company’s commitment to train one million people and impact one billion lives. Speaking about the sessions, a…
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Your payments and collections will be made simpler for you thanks to ALAT's new NQR feature.

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September 22, 2022
ALAT, one of Nigeria’s leading digital banking platforms has again raised the bar in service delivery by including a new quick response (QR)-code-based payments and collections solution to boost convenient and safe financial transactions. The new feature on ALAT, known as NQR or quick response (QR), is a code-based payment and collections solution that provides fast, easy, secure, reliable…
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Technology

Online campaign tracking platform is unveiled by SystemSpecs.

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September 22, 2022
A Technology services provider, SystemSpecs has launched a fundraising solution, FundACause, for individuals and groups to track campaigns online and in real-time, as well as share donation progress with donors. Managing Director, SystemSpecs Technology, Demola Igbalajobi, said the platform, which is to facilitate donations in Nigeria, was developed to manage donation-based fundraising, which…
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