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African payment service provider Nomba raises $30M, backed by Base10 Partners and Shopify

Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions for African businesses. The round, which values the company at $150 million+ according to YCombinator data on its most valuable companies, was led by San Francisco-based Base 10 Partners.  Partech and Khosla Ventures, existing investors from its $5…

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? Speaking for myself, it sounds rather cumbersome — having to plop on a headset to browse for, say, trousers as opposed to click through a few galleries. But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. Enter Emperia, an “immersive” retail startup that — to its credit — has already…

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Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners

Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts launching solutions geared toward digitizing small business operations. In…

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Incredible Health passes unicorn valuation as it bags $80M Series B

Incredible Health passes unicorn valuation as it bags $80M Series B

Incredible Health, a US-based job-matching platform which made nurses its first focus, has closed an $80 million Series B funding round and announced hitting a $1.65BN unicorn valuation, billing itself as the highest valued “tech-enabled” career marketplace in the healthcare sector — a couple of (pandemic-struck) years after closing a $15M Series A. The latest raise is led by Base10 Partners,…

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