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Cadana, teams up with Flutterwave to expand into Nigeria

Cadana helps businesses delight their employees by providing modern payroll platforms that allow employees access to their earned salary on-demand, anytime, anywhere. Following this partnership, Flutterwave processes payments for employers and employees on Cadana.

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Flutterwave Enables New Europe-Africa Payment Corridors via Stellar

Today, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that Flutterwave, a global payments technology company, has launched two new remittance corridors between Europe and Africa on the Stellar network. Working with TEMPO, Flutterwave is leveraging the Stellar network and Stellar USDC to simplify remittances in Africa.

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TEAMFund Awards Fourth Global Health Innovator Award to Baobab Circle

EAMFund announced today during a presentation at The MedTech Conference that Baobab Circle won this year's Global Health Innovator Award. The $50,000 award presented by TEAMFund recognizes an early-stage MedTech company that has a novel, appropriate, and sustainable medical device for the world's low and resource-constrained populations.

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FlexClub and Untapped Global partner to unlock thousands of electric vehicles for on-demand workers in emerging markets

FlexClub, a marketplace for vehicle subscriptions, has partnered with Untapped Global, a pioneer of Smart Asset Financing™ in emerging markets, and ITALIKA the leading motorcycle brand and manufacturer in Mexico, to offer electric vehicle subscriptions to on-demand workers in countries such as Mexico and South Africa. The partnership will make over 2,000 electric vehicles – including 1,000 electric motorcycles – significantly more accessible for independent on-demand workers using platforms like Uber, Rappi, Didi, and Bolt to earn income.

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SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory

Andela, a fully remote company that helps tech companies build remote engineering teams (initially from Africa but now a global market), is currently valued at $1.5 billion following a $200 million Series E round led by SoftBank’s Softbank Vision Fund 2, the $30 billion venture fund of SoftBank Group.

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Afrexim and Asoko Partner to Help List African Companies

Asoko Insight, Africa’s leading provider of corporate data and engagement services, is pleased to announce a partnership with Africa Export-Import Bank that will help African companies list on its due diligence platform, the MANSA.

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Flutterwave partners with Currencycloud to help accelerate expansion in Europe and US

Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, one of TIME’s 2021 100 Most Influential Companies, has partnered with Currencycloud, the experts in simplifying business in a multi-currency world, in order to accelerate the launch of their payment network in Europe and the US.

The partnership enables Flutterwave to enhance its services to customers by enabling them to receive money globally via unique virtual accounts. The partnership with Currencycloud will allow Flutterwave’s merchants seamless and quick access to send and receive money transfers at a significant scale at their convenience.

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