First Edition of the Tastemakers Wine Series Hosted by Vendease

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Afropolitan Funded By Eche Emole and Chika Uwazie Raised $2.1 million pre-seed

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June 22, 2022
Afropolitan, a community-as-a-service company for the African diaspora, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed. VCs who participated include Hashed, Atlantica Ventures, Microtraction, Cultur3 Capital, and other unnamed investors. The round also saw some angel investors, including Balaji Srinivasan, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund, Shola Akinlade of Paystack, Ian Lee of SyndicateDAO, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji…
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Bumpa Partners With Google To Empower SMBs Across Africa

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June 16, 2022
Foremost e-commerce platform startup, providing easy business management for SMEs: Bumpa, has joined with Google in an initiative aimed at empowering Africa’s small and medium businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. The Google Hustle Academy, seeks to provide MSMEs across Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa with expert training on business strategy and development, digital…
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FundBae has just crossed a major milestone of 50,000 Nigerian Users

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June 16, 2022
FundBae, Nigeria’s fastest-growing Savings and Investment platform, has just crossed a major milestone – 50,000 Users. FundBae is helping ordinary Nigerians build and preserve wealth through its value offerings; savings, investments and payment. It is steadily growing on Nigerians because of its flexibility and usefulness in helping Users build and sustain a savings habit. What’s more…
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StartupsTechnology

Lagos State Government to adopt Nigeria Startup Bill at state level 

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June 13, 2022
The Lagos State Government has said it will domesticate Nigeria Startup Bill in the state to fast-track the growth of the startup ecosystem in the country. The Special Adviser on Innovation & Technology to Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, Tunbosun Alake, who disclosed this said that domesticating the law at the state level will help the country in its implementation. According to him, Lagos State…
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