Adaverse, an EMURGO-backed Web3 accelerator focused on Cardano ecosystem adoption in Africa, recently announced its investment in Momint, a Web3 marketplace that makes investing in crypto and NFTs easy for users of all skill levels. Adaverse joined Momint’s highly competitive seed round alongside Outlier Ventures, Mountain Partners, Rob Hersov, and simple.Capital. Adaverse was launched in September…
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Nigerian Banking as a Service (BaaS) startup, Maplerad announced that it has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. Other participants in the round include Golden Palm Investments Corporation, Michael Vaughn (ex-COO, Venmo), Fintech Fund, Babs Ogundeyi (CEO, Kuda) Armyn Capital, Dunbar Capital, Strawhat Investment, Polymath Capital, Unpopular Ventures, Sean…
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Click here to read the original Article by Bitpowr. The Bitpowr team was at the Africa Money and DeFi Summit in Ghana last week, from the 27th-28th of September, 2022. About the Summit The aim of the summit was to connect Africa fintech leaders, global venture platforms and thought leaders across Africa and beyond to…
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According to Pennee, access to funding seems to be the most difficult of running a small and medium-scale enterprise (SME) in Nigeria, even when the funds are available the interest rates are usually high. “There are a lot of opportunities on the continent [Africa] but capital is very difficult to come by.” — Tony Elumelu…
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Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has announced Google Pay, a mobile payment service developed by Google, as a payment option for their clients. As part of this collaboration, Google Pay will be an additional payment option for merchants on Flutterwave for business. This collaboration will offer safe and seamless payments, as well as convenient…
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Launched in 2020, Autochek is an automotive technology company established to build digital solutions to enhance and enable automotive commerce across Africa. The company is currently operational in East and West Africa. With the support of TLcom Capital and 4DX Ventures, Autochek combines technology underpinned by data analytics to deepen auto finance penetration across the continent. Powered by its…
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EMTECH, an award-winning software company and first-of-its-kind provider of central banking infrastructure, has partnered with SEC Ghana to deploy its API-First Digital Regulatory Sandbox Platform to streamline regulatory sandboxing and supervision of capital market innovation. The company’s cutting-edge framework enables the SEC, as well as other regulatory agencies and central banks, to collaborate with emerging…
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Originally published here When designing and building systems that follow a service-orientated paradigm, we find that the complexity of securing the overall system and choosing a pattern for authentication can be challenging. Building a centralized monolithic system would mean that your authentication and authorization are also central, that there is one authority determining which end-users…
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Our team is distributed across the globe in countries in North America, Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Africa. EMTECH is passionate about enabling financial inclusion by transforming financial ecosystems. Click here to learn more about EMTECH. We look forward to hearing more from the EMTECH at Africa Money and DeFi Summit later this month The Africa…
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Africa’s tech ecosystem is pushing the boundaries of what is possible and what’s not. We’ve seen new startups offer life-changing solutions to problems and digital services are improving the way we live and work. At Verified.africa, we’re huge supporters of growth and inclusivity, so we built a platform that enables these startups to reach a…
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