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Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

NVIDIA AI Blog

million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. The startup, which uses the Ai2 EarthRanger platform, protects more than 1.2

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Namibian B2B e-commerce retail platform JABU raises $15M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

This time, it’s a startup that was in the news this January: Namibia-based JABU , whose $3.2 Now, the last-mile distribution e-commerce company has received more investment: a $15 million Series A led by Tiger Global. Other investors in this growth round include Box Group, Knollwood and D Global Ventures.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

TechCrunch

The process used by millions of agents and thousands of property portals globally to reach buyers and sellers on digital channels is highly fragmented. So more broadly, Flow is used by nearly 6,000 agents across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mauritius and Australia. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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Finclusion raises $20M to build out credit-led neobank offering across Africa

TechCrunch

The digital banking space in Africa is taking shape as neobanks on the continent grow in numbers like their global counterparts. The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda.

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Zola Electric closes $90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

TechCrunch

And importantly , this is the group that demonstrated their confidence and desire to really solve what is a global problem,” said the CEO. million users and over 300,000 homes and businesses use Zola products across multiple African countries — Ivory Coast, Ghana, Namibia, DRC, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. A portion of the funds will also be directed at mergers and acquisitions and pan-African expansion to four countries in the next six months: Namibia, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. Undoubtedly, the inequities in who bears the brunt of climate change will play out in similar ways on the larger global stage. Those with the fewest resources found themselves most vulnerable to the infrastructure failures.

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