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Benjamin Dada Dada

Founder, Condia
Venture Capital

LASRIC and Ventures Platform to back seven successful startups from #COVID19InnovationChallenge

LASRIC and Ventures Platform to fund and support seven successful startups from the #COVID19InnovationChallenge.

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Africa Centres for Disease Control partners Co-Creation Hub in the fight against COVID-19

Africa CDC joins forces with CcHUB in seeking out innovative ways to educate and sensitise the continent on dealing with COVID-19.

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Youverify closes $1.5m seed round led by Orange DV and LoftyInc AF

Youverify raises $1.5m in a seed round led by Orange Digital Ventures Africa (ODV) and Loftyinc Afropreneurs Fund.

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Favour Ori sells his educational resource app for ₦22 million

The College Situation App is a platform that connects students—mostly Nigerians and Africans—with schools, scholarships, and fellowship programmes in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries abroad.

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Nigerian lending fintech, Aella Credit raises $10 million

Aella Credit raises $10 million in debt financing, expands into other product lines including a blockchain-based lending market, Creditcoin.

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The many woes of Gokada

Gokada has sacked 75% of its employees, amidst a regulatory ban in its operating market. But insiders say there is more to the company lay-off, which came barely 48 hours after the ban on tricycles and bikes took effect.

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“Canada is our competition o”, exclaims Nigerian HR at Flutterwave Developer Job Fair

Flutterwave—a global payments company—organised a job fair that connected over 400 developers to 30+ companies on September 21, 2019.

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Why African healthtech startup, 54gene’s seed raise is important to the rest of the world

In less than six months, 54gene secured an early-stage funding of $4.5 million which signals the potential for massive impact and profitability

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Venture Capital firm, Oui Capital partners American IT multinational, IBM to support startups in its portfolio

Via the Startup with IBM program, Oui Capital portfolio companies can no get access to $120,000 worth of IBM Cloud credits and over 130 IBM services.

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A comprehensive recap of the 4th MEST Africa Summit

Here is everything that happened last week in Nairobi, Kenya at MEST Africa Summit 2019, held in partnership with Microsoft.

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Ghanaian startup, Truckrtech emerges winner of TechCircle’s 2019 Pitch2Win competition

A Ghanaian startup, Truckr(tech) emerged the winner of the just concluded "Pitch2Win" competition that held in Lagos-Nigeria.

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10 Nigerian startups to compete at ‘Pitch2Win’, organised by TechCircle and Japan’s Freakout holdings

Organised in partnership with Japan's Freakout holding, TechCircle has invited the top 5% of Nigerian startups that applied to Pitch2Win ₦1 million on June 12. Read on to find out who the selected startups are.

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