by RJ Shara | Sep 17, 2020 | Startups
Medium and small businesses have actually been some of the hardest hit in the Covid-19 pandemic. And all that has been as true in emerging markets as it has been for SMBs in the industrialized world. Tunde Kehinde has had a front-row seat responding and witnessing to that crisis. He’s the CEO and co-founder of Lidya, a […]
, a startup out of Nigeria that has constructed a platform for SMBs to apply for and get loans and other financial services, aimed at markets on the African continent and increasingly also in emerging economies in Europe. You can see the full Disrupt conversation below, where Kehinde covers a lot of ground, not simply about his company but about how tech is evolving in the area. …
by RJ Shara | Jun 17, 2020 | Startups
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Money has closed a $13.8 million Series A financing round led by Deciens Capital and plans to employ 30 brand-new staff globally. The raise caps an event-filled run for the San Francisco-based payments company, established 2 years earlier by Ugandan Ham Serunjogi and Ghanaian Maijid Moujaled. The 2 pertained to America […] The two came to America for academics, satisfied in Iowa while studying at Grinnell College and ventured out to Silicon Valley for stints in huge tech: Facebook for Serunjogi and Flickr and Yahoo! With the round statement, Chipper Cash also exposed a business social duty effort. The Chipper Fund for Black Lives will provide five to 10 grants of $5,000 to $10,000. In Africa, Chipper Cash has positioned itself in the continent’s major digital payments markets. Chipper Cash expanded there in 2019 and deals with competitors from a number of gamers, consisting of regional payments venture Paga….
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