Thursday, November 21African Digital Business Magazine

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Sendmarc secures $7m funding to help make the internet a safer place
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Sendmarc secures $7m funding to help make the internet a safer place

Sendmarc, a leader in email and domain security, has announced a $7 million series A funding round led by Atlantica Ventures and supported by Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures, Fireball Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, 4Di Capital, Kalon Venture Partners, Endeavor Harvest, and Alpha Private Capital. The funding will be used to expand Sendmarc's market enablement strategy and to continue improving its product, with a focus on being the best in email and domain security – making the internet a safer place. “We are proud to have protected over 10 billion emails from impersonation last year” says CEO and founder Sam Hutchinson, “And with this new funding we can expand our market enablement strategy and also continue to improve the product, while remaining hyper-focused on being the best in this specif...
Real Estate, South Africa News, Startups

South African Proptech Flow Expands Reach Into Australia

API platform connecting real estate agents and social media users leverages significant growth on the continent to target global property market Flow, a proptech startup that enables real estate agents and developers to seamlessly advertise properties on social media, has announced that following consolidated growth in South Africa the company is launching in Australia. Flow’s move comes at a time when African proptechs are building scalable solutions with application beyond the continent more frequently than ever before, with strong reception from global markets seeing the viability of home-grown African businesses. Boasting 90,000 agents and a housing market value of $9 trillion, Australia offers a latent opportunity for Flow to change the way that people find places to live and wo...
African News, Events, Startups

Discover the first speakers and themes of the 5th edition of EMERGING Valley

A major annual event for Afro-European Tech players, the EMERGING Valley International Summit will be held phygitally on December 14, at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, with over 200 speakers and 2,500 digital and face-to-face participants expected. The event is open and free of charge to everyone, just sign up on the official website.    EMERGING Valley is delighted to unveil the first international experts who will be participating in its major debates.   Here are the first confirmed speakers:    ·         Minister Taleb OULD SID'AHMED, Minister of Employment and Professional Integration of Mauritania, ·         Mrs Aurelie Ilimatou ADAM SOULE, Minister of Numeric and Digitalisation of Benin ·         Mr. Grégory CLEMENTE, Managing Director of PROPARCO (France), Mr. Satoshi SH...