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How Nigerian agriculture is enjoying Cellulant's e-wallet and blockchain-based solution

Cellulant Corporation – the pan-African technology company based in Kenya is known for developing revolutionary technologies to empower African commerce. ...

Cellulant’s Agrikore platform – an online marketplace for smallholder farmers, agricultural input and produce traders is tapping into Africa’s emerging Agritech market valued at €5.3 billion (US$5.9 billion) according to a new report by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Dalberg Advisors.This comes as 94 per cent of the continent’s emerging Agritech market remains untapped, according to the survey. The State of Digitalisation of Agriculture in Africa 2019 report identifies online marketplace solutions such as Agrikore as significant use cases of how digital tools are being built to tackle major challenges of attracting and retaining a significant number of buyers and sellers, and in thus doing, help to solve the problem of inefficient and fragmented agricultural markets.

How Cellulant is tapping Africa’s emerging Agritech market

by Chacha Mwita

July 16, 2019

Cellulant’s Agrikore platform – an online marketplace for smallholder farmers, agricultural input and produce traders is tapping into Africa’s emerging ...

Digitization is bringing new opportunities to Africa with the continent becoming the next frontier for internet-based e-commerce solutions. Africa’s 21 million online shoppers have inspired the Nairobi e-commerce conference organised by UNCTAD. www.theexchange.africa

Why Africans can now shop internationally but pay locally

by Njenga Hakeenah

June 6, 2019

Cellulant is the processor of over 12 per cent of Africa’s digital payments including through M-Pesa which revolutionised the mobile ...

A report released recently by Africa Venture Capital Association (AVCA) highlights how Nigeria, Morocco, South Africa and Kenya each lead by huge margins their respective region in terms of attracting private equity.- The Exchange

Why PE in Africa is becoming vital for growth

by Kimani Chege

April 4, 2019

A report released recently by Africa Venture Capital Association (AVCA) highlights how Nigeria, Morocco, South Africa and Kenya each lead ...

The Rise Fund, a global impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, has invested in a $47.5 million stake in Kenyan based fintech firm, Cellulant. The deal demonstrates how fintech in Africa is the next major sector for foreign investors.

Africa Tech Ventures (ATV) gets AfDB funding for expanding its operations in East Africa

by Kimani Chege

January 2, 2019

African Development Bank invests US$7.5 million to boost innovative start-ups The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved ...

Cellulant partners with Stanbic Bank To offer loan facilities for Kenyan artistes based on their ‘Skiza’ tunes - The Exchange

Kenyan musicians to access loans using their ‘Skiza’ tunes

by Kimani Chege

December 5, 2018

Cellulant, the pioneer in digital content services has announced a partnership with Stanbic Bank that will see artists in their portfolio access ...

Mula Shops integrates Augmented Reality into the Facebook Messenger where customers are able to discover and try products before they purchase.

Cellulant builds first Augmented Reality (AR) with Facebook, loops in Huddah Monroe

by Kimani Chege

November 21, 2018

Pan-African Payments company, Cellulant, has built the first Augmented Reality (AR) powered try-on experiences in Facebook Messenger. As part of the ...