| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.12.2025 | Unlock Aid Launches Inaugural Solutions Index, Spotlights 33 Innovators Strengthening Global Health Supply Chains | New reference tool helps donors and policymakers identify evidence backed, financially sustainable, scalable solutions amid transitions in global development
In a period when traditional aid structures are shifting, we cannot afford to lose... |
| 18.02.2025 | Kasha Launches Operation SHE Africa to Bridge Urgent Medicine Access Gap Following USAID Stop Work Order | Kasha in action
Join Operation SHE Africa to expand medicine access with Kasha. CAPE TOWN, WESTERN PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA, February 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Kasha is leading an impact collective called Operation SHE (Sustainable Healt... |
| 13.01.2025 | От тележки с интернетом до ИИ Legaltech: четыре цифровых стартапа из Руанды | Продолжаем рассказывать о Руанде, на этот раз — о ее инновационном и IT-секторе. Страну часто называет одним из самых быстрорастущих инновационных хабов субсахарской Африки, хотя из-за низкого старта и небольшой численности населения ей еще... |
| 27.07.2023 | Endowed with $21 million, Kasha wants to transform healthcare in Africa
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Success! | Interview with Joanna Bichsel, founder and CEO of Kasha on the startup’s recent Series B raise, future expansion plans and the state of healthtech startups on the continent.
Last week, Rwandan healthtech startup Kasha announced a $21 millio... |
| 24.07.2023 | African healthtech Kasha raises $21-million in funding | Kasha founder Joanna Bichsel
Kasha, an Africa-focused health-technology company, has raised more than US$21-million (R380-million) in a series-B funding round led by Cape Town’s Knife Capital.
Other participants in the funding round were Fi... |
| 20.07.2023 | Kasha raises $21M Series B led by Knife Capital to expand health access platform across Africa | As Africa’s youthful population continues to grow exponentially, it’s of the utmost importance that entrepreneurs create various healthcare solutions that will cater to the medical needs of the continent’s future. While the pandemic made in... |
| 06.12.2022 | Beyond Capital Ventures Announces Groundbreaking Final Close of Venture Fund | “By closing Beyond Capital Ventures, our team truly beat the odds - only 2-3% of capital flows to women fund managers in private equity. Our Limited Partners have catalyzed our firm with their investments - and this new fund is only the beg... |
| 19.05.2022 | Beyond Capital Ventures Builds Upon African Healthcare Portfolio With Third Investment: Contributes to CarePoint's $10M Series B Bridge Funding Round | “With 1.3 billion people, we [Africans] are responsible for 26% of global disease burden and have 3% of global healthcare workers. We intend to solve this crisis by scaling and innovating our healthcare solutions to ensure that every Africa... |
| 02.03.2022 | Beyond Capital Ventures Announces Second Investment: Kasha Global, East Africa’s leading femtech retailer founded by Joanna Bichsel | When you look at how tech solutions are traditionally built, they are usually built by men for men. I want Kasha to make sure that no woman ever has a difficult time in getting the self-care products she needs to live her best life.
NAIROBI... |
| 26.01.2022 | Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa | Euler Bropleh was born in war-torn Liberia and has long had a vision for reinvesting in Africa’s vulnerable communities. With his Chicago-based impact investment firm VestedWorld, Bropleh has raised two early-stage investment funds and supp... |
| 12.11.2020 | East African women’s health tech startup secures $1-million | East African tech startup, Kasha has received $1-million investment from Swedfund, a Swedish Development Finance institution.
The investment will be utilised to promote the women-focused eCommerce platform’s overall aim to ensure that women... |
| 12.11.2020 | East African women’s health tech startup secures $1-million | East African tech startup, Kasha has received $1-million investment from Swedfund, a Swedish Development Finance institution.
The investment will be utilised to promote the women-focused eCommerce platform’s overall aim to ensure that wome... |
| 15.09.2020 | Trump’s DFC investment play in African private funds and startups so far | Share this article:
On January 2, 2020, the Trump administration launched a new agency: the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).
Acting as the US’ development bank, the agency was set to deepen the US’ foreign policy an... |
| 07.04.2020 | E-commerce company for women’s products, Kasha receives US$1 million funding | Since the term was coined in 2016, femtech, a sub-sector in health technology dedicated to creating solutions that address female wellbeing continues to gain traction and attract VC funding globally. In Africa, however, the space is still v... |
| 02.04.2020 | Finnfund invests $1m in East African ecommerce site Kasha | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that aims to improves women’s access to health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa.
Kasha was founded in Rwanda in 2016 by two forme... |
| 02.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [02/04/2020] | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that provides hygiene and self-care products to women in East Africa, which could prove vital under Covid-19.
A number of other tech startups ha... |
| 02.04.2020 | Women’s e-commerce platform Kasha gains new investment for expansion | Share this:
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| 02.04.2020 | Finnfund invests $1m in East African ecommerce site Kasha | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that aims to improves women’s access to health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa.
Kasha was founded in Rwanda in 2016 by two former... |
| 02.04.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [02/04/2020] | Finnish development financier Finnfund has invested $1-million in Kasha, an e-commerce platform that provides hygiene and self-care products to women in East Africa, which could prove vital under Covid-19.
A number of other tech startups h... |
| 19.09.2019 | Raising funding in Africa? Here are 12 venture capitalists you should know about | If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a tech startup founder who is looking to raise venture capital (VC) funding.
The good news is as Africa’s VC sector continues to grow the amount of VC funding raised by startups this year is likel... |
| 19.09.2019 | Raising funding in Africa? Here are 12 venture capitalists you should know about | If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a tech startup founder who is looking to raise venture capital (VC) funding.
The good news is as Africa’s VC sector continues to grow the amount of VC funding raised by startups this year is likely... |
| 07.04.2017 | Philippines’ Acudeen Technologies wins Seedstars World | The Filipino startup, Acudeen Technologies was crowned the Seedstars World Global Winner for 2017 on 6 April 2017, taking home the grand prize of USD$500 000 in investment.
Acudeen beat startups from 65 countries at the pitching competitio... |
| 07.04.2017 | Philippines’ Acudeen Technologies wins Seedstars World | The Filipino startup, Acudeen Technologies was crowned the Seedstars World Global Winner for 2017 on 6 April 2017, taking home the grand prize of USD$500 000 in investment.
Acudeen beat startups from 65 countries at the pitching competition... |
| 21.12.2016 | Why these Microsoft vets decided to launch an e-commerce startup in Rwanda | A Kasha customer tests the mobile app. (Kasha Photo)
In July, Joanna Bichsel left a high-level job at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to move from Seattle to Kigali, Rwanda with her husband and two young children.
She was chasing a ... |
| 07.12.2016 | Top African technology news for December 7, 2016 | 7. MTN has announced new appointments in its senior management team
The South African telecoms company has announced the appointment of former Vodafone Germany CEO, Jens Schulte-Bockum as their new Chief Operating Officer. He is replacing J... |
| - | Mastercard Selects India’s BharatPe For Start Path Fintech Accelerator | US-based payments giant Mastercard’s Start Path accelerator programme has brought on board BharatPe among seven fintech startups from across the world in its latest edition.
Besides the Delhi NCR-based B2B payments startup, the other select... |
