Tech start-ups to watch right now
05 October 2016 |
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The Guardian profiles four Nigerian tech startups that have attracted positive reviews and investment from across the world. Get familiar with names such as NerveFlo, Aella, Paystack and Andela.
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The Guardian profiles four Nigerian tech startups that have attracted positive reviews and investment from across the world. Get familiar with names such as NerveFlo, Aella, Paystack and Andela.
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After the completion of its 100 million-dollar Series D funding, African outsourcing start-up Andela says they plan to hire another one thousand software developers this year. Andela's Country Director for Nigeria Omowale David-Ashiru, joins CNBC Africa to discuss this development.
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Endeavor in partnership with Nigerian data collection company, Stears say 84 per cent of start-ups have reported disruptions to their fundraising efforts due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with 79 per cent of start-ups having less than a six-month buffer for their operations. This was in a jointly published white paper. Eloho Omame, Managing Director and CEO of Endeavor Nigeria joins CNBC Africa’s Wole Famurewa for more.
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Nigerian payments startup, Paystack, founded in 2015 by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, has been acquired by US payment giant, Stripe.
The acquisition, valued at over $200 million, happened two years after Stripe led an $8 million Series A financing round for Paystack, and it is the biggest startup acquisition so far in Nigeria.
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