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Anchor, a pan-African BaaS and embedded finance infrastructure provider announced its $2.4M seed raise led by Goat Capital to launch new products, invest in its licensing and compliance infrastructure and evaluate expansion markets.
SA, KE, and Ghana surpass Nigeria on world passport rankings. We also covered Kenya's first virtual open university and the suspension of TikTok in Senegal
Although Nigerians are more likely to emigrate to Canada, new data from Henley Passport Index reveals that the UK passport is better for Nigerians than US or Canadian passports, as of Q3 2023.
With 75 million KYC checks done, Smile ID is out with its third report on the State of KYC, customer onboarding and fraud in Africa. Let's dig in
Clafiya, an African healthtech company, announced its $610,000 pre-seed raise today.
The rebrand includes four new things: a new name (Smile ID), new logo, a refreshed website and new product updates.
We also covered how Nigeria has lost its spot as the top destination for tech VC funding in Africa and Flutterwave and IATA payment partnership.
Flutterwave has launched Tuition to allow African users to pay various fees to educational institutions within Africa and overseas using their local currencies.
KOICA, MEST Africa, UNICEF Startup Lab partner to support startups under the "KOICA-UNICEF Accelerating Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Ghana" project.
Letter 167 explores Visa's plan to invest in African fintech startups, ThriveAgric's journey: From a turbulent 2020 to an incredible 2022 and unification of the exchange rate.
Nigeria's President Tinubu removes fuel subsidies and unifies the exchange rate. Short-term pain, but should lead to improved price discovery and increased dollar supply, if managed appropriately. Dig deeper.
Fullgap is building the operating system for freelancers. In just three weeks of the public beta launch, they acquired their first 3,000 users. Here is my interview with two of the co-founders.
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