Glovo Decides To Call It Quits In The Ghana Food Delivery Market
Chowdeck raises $2.5 million and BuuPass acquires QuickBus
What’s happened this Week:
Glovo leaves the Ghanaian Market
Sustainability Startuo Kubik raises $5.2 million
and more!
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In The News This Week:
Chowdeck Raises $2.5 Million Seed Funding to Optimize On-Demand Food Delivery in Nigeria
Chowdeck, Nigeria’s leading on-demand delivery service, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to optimize its operations and support expansion into more cities across the country.
Norrsken22 Plans To Invest In 20 African Tech Companies By 2025
According to Lexi Novitske, General Partner at Norrsken22, an Africa-focused fund, African startups on the continent are too attractive for international investors to overlook.
Sustainable Tech Startup Kubik Raises $5.2 Million Seed Funding To Scale Production
Kubik, an African sustainable tech startup in Ethiopia, has raised a $5.2 million seed funding round.
The seed round makes it the first Ethiopian company to raise a multi-million dollar investment in climate and sustainability solutions.
In the rest of the news:
Qualcomm Announces Shortlisted Startups For Make In Africa 2024 Program
Madica Announces First Set Of African Fintech Portfolio Companies
Village Capital Partners with Norad to Strengthen Climate Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
BuuPass Acquires QuickBus, Becomes Africa’s Largest Intercity Transport Booking Platform
Ghana Has Approved Starlink’s Satellite Internet Service. What Happens Next?
Leatherback Partners With MCB Bank For Pakistan Rupees Remittances and Payouts
Deep Dive
What Glovo’s Sudden Exit Says About Ghana’s Food Delivery Industry - Glovo, a popular food delivery company, announced that it was closing up shop in Ghana to focus on its other markets
Why This Matters: Glovo’s sudden departure despite investing €3.5 million in 2022, calls into question the viability of the food delivery space in Ghana.
Digging Deeper - Glovo stated that profitability was one of the reasons it decided to leave the Ghanaian market. Ghana is currently going through economic hardships with high inflation rates and high exchange rates with the dollar and Euro.
Africa Ecosystem Activity
Venture for Africa, Africa Product Peers launch career bootcamp for mid-level professionals - Disrupt Africa
Kenyan agri-tech startup Farm to Feed secures funding to help it scale - Disrupt Africa
Egyptian group-buying startup Waffarha raises 7-figure seed round to expand - Disrupt Africa
10 Egyptian startups win VMS Bridge Programme awards - Disrupt Africa
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