Finance
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TLcom Capital closes $71M Africa fund with plans to back 12 startups
VC firm TLcom Capital has closed its Tide Africa Fund at $71 million with plans to make up to 12…
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Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital
Africa has one of the world’s fastest growing tech markets and Nigeria is becoming its unofficial capital. While the West…
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Slack’s worth about 18x revenue, and there’s nothing wrong with that
One odd thing in 2019 has been Slack’s falling share price contrasted against the rising value of the Nasdaq composite,…
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Fintech’s next decade will look radically different
The birth and growth of financial technology developed mostly over the last ten years. So as we look ahead, what…
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Jiji raises $21M for its Africa online classifieds business
Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji has raised $21 million in Series C and C-1 financing from six investors, led by…
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RaySecur, a mailroom security startup, raises $3M in seed funding
Raysecur says at least ten times a day someone sends a suspicious package containing powder, liquid, or some other kind…
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PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile…
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Luge Capital raises $85M to invest in Canadian fintech startups
There are 831 financial technology startups headquartered in or operating in Canada, according to data collected by Fintech Growth Syndicate,…
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Rapyd raises $100M for its ‘fintech as a service’ API, now valued at nearly a $1B valuation
The digital payments market is forecast to balloon to $3 trillion by 2023, and today a startup that lets businesses implement…
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