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Anza Entrepreneurs and the business of getting unstuck
A Tanzanian founder-support organisation joins the dots between advice, capital and connections. Its own early funding lesson explains why those dots belong together.
Smart Lab gets Tanzania’s startups into the room
A telecom partnership, climate grants and a new fintech challenge reveal how the Dar es Salaam company helps founders reach the people who can test, fund and buy what they build.
Untold
Untold, formerly CARE for AIDS, is an Atlanta-based faith-driven nonprofit that runs a nine-month, church-based program helping HIV-positive men and women across East and Southern Africa build a life beyond AIDS. Working through local churches with indigenous staff, its integrated model addresses physical, spiritual, emotional, and economic health at once - producing 97% viral suppression among clients and more than 50,000 program graduates.
Ramani.io
Ramani.io is a Tanzania-born, San Francisco-incorporated B2B fintech digitizing the micro-distribution layer of Africa's consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) supply chain. It hands point-of-sale, inventory and procurement software to thousands of micro-distribution centres (MDCs) that move products from brands like Coca-Cola, Diageo and AB InBev to corner shops, then uses the real-time sales and inventory data to underwrite working-capital financing. A Y Combinator alumnus that raised a $32M Series A in 2022 and holds a lending license from the Bank of Tanzania, Ramani is now evolving into a financial marketplace and B2B e-commerce platform connecting banks, brands and resellers.