50 African startups secure equity-free funding from Google
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The list is completed by Senegalese logistics platform Paps, Cameroonian e-health startup Infiuss Health, Zambian fintech Lupiya, and Ethiopian home services platform Taskmoby.We are proud to have been selected for funding and support by Googles Black Founders Fund. Finplus is building a new kind of credit and commerce infrastructure for emerging markets, which is incredibly ambitious work in largely uncharted territory. To succeed we must employ a creative mix of both old and new technologies in innovative ways, said Finplus chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder Kageni Wilson.A number of these enablers are Google technologies and beyond the funding, cloud and marketing resources we are receiving from Google, we look forward to collaborating closely with their talented creators to push the boundaries of what these technologies can do on the continent when applied in novel ways.Our mission is to put more money in womens hands and adopting more advanced technology will allow us to reach more women. We look forward to all the meaningful impact it will make for the women in our network, said Ifeoma Uddoh, founder and CEO of Shecluded.At Shecluded, we are seeing firsthand the urgent need for women to easily access key financial growth services. We believe that an advanced technology platform will go a long way to improve our ability to reach and provide these important resources to more women across more regions/locations.
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