Editor’s Observe
- Week 46, 2022
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Layoffs, resignations and licence losses appear to be the order of this week. Nestcoin and Twiga laid off a few of their employees this week, whereas staff of Future Africa volunteered to go away the corporate. Yet one more startup, Healthlane, suffers from mismanagement of funds.
It’s not all unhealthy information although: Paystack secured their PSP licence in Kenya, Sky.Backyard obtained a second likelihood, and the Kenyan authorities says having a detrimental credit score rating shouldn’t cease you from borrowing cash.
Learn this version of The Weekender to study concerning the highs and lows of this week in tech. Get pleasure from!
Pamela Tetteh Editor, TechCabal.
Editor’s Picks
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Healthlane goes off targetHealthlane, a startup based to make hospitals out of date, is now getting ready to extinction due to its founder’s unbridled spending and erratic selections. |
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FTX crash causes layoffs at NestcoinPractically $4 million of Nestcoin’s funding from traders—used for salaries and day-to-day operations—are caught on the now-defunct FTX platform. This has led the crypto startup to put off almost half of its workforce. |
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Kenya strikes to curb blacklisting
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Paystack secures PSP license in Kenya
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FTX loses FSP licence in SASouth Africa has lower ties with the now-bankrupt crypto trade platform FTX. To insulate itself from the approaching collapse, cryptocurrency market maker, Ovex, disassociated itself from FTX—one in all its main traders. Because of this, FTX misplaced its native Monetary Service Supplier (FSP) licence in SA. |
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Sky.Backyard will get a second likelihoodThe tides have turned and introduced a second likelihood to the shores of Sky.Backyard. Two months in the past, the Kenya-based market introduced that it will shut down in October, however because of an IP acquisition, it should now keep open. |
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Ethio Telecom to go personal
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Twiga lays off 21% of its employeesTwiga is shedding and branching out. The Kenyan agritech startup has laid off 21% of its workforce. The corporate’s in-house gross sales crew was shut down, and now it’s branching out into a brand new gross sales mannequin. |
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Future Africa’s staff resign
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Orange Botswana launches 5G in Africa
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Can African places of work of large tech corporations survive?
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Who introduced the cash this week?
- Kenyan e-mobility firm BasiGo, raised $6.6 million in seed funding. The spherical was led by Mobility54, the company enterprise capital arm of Toyota Tsusho; Vehicles VC, and Novastar Ventures. Different collaborating traders included Moxxie Ventures, My Local weather Journey (MCJ), Susquehanna Basis, Keiki Capital, and OnCapital.
- Kenya agri-tech firm Secure Meals raised $600k in an undisclosed spherical from Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) and Mercy Corps Ventures.
- South Africa primarily based e-health platform Contro raised $585k in pre-seed funding from Plug & Play, iCubed Capital, WZ Capital and the Jozi Angels Community, in addition to outstanding native and worldwide angels.
- Moroccan retail-tech firm Wafr raised $120k in an undisclosed funding spherical, from unknown traders.
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