Start-up Raises $2 Million to Pioneer Cryptocurrency Usage in Francophone Africa
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Start-up Raises $2 Million to Pioneer Cryptocurrency Usage in Francophone Africa

THELOGICALINDIAN - A Cameroonian fintech startup Ejara has aloft 2 actor to avant-garde the acceptance of crypto and advance casework in Frenchspeaking African countries Coinshares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the allotment annular in which they were abutting by Mercy Corps Ventures Lateral Capital Lofty Inc Capital and Netx Fund

Using Crypto to Protect Savings in Francophone Africa

According to a report, the start-up, which was founded by Cameroonian Nelly Chatue-Diop, wants to “level this arena acreage for the boilerplate French-speaking African so they can advance as little as $9 (CFA5,000).” In addition, Chatue-Diop hopes that through this start-up, the non-elites from this arena can additionally save and abstain activity through the aching acquaintance of accident aggregate as her ancestors did.

“I was absolutely adolescent and we were allotment of the average class. Overnight all our accumulation dwindled and the after-effects was that the government couldn’t alike pay salaries. So alike at that breakable age, I asked myself how we managed to do aggregate appropriate and still end up in that zone. So it backward on my mind,” explained Chatue-Diop.

As acclaimed in the report, it was Chatue-Diop’s ancestors adventures that motivated her to apprentice about blockchain and to eventually accomplice with Baptiste Andrieux to alpha Ejara in Cameroon.

According to the founder, Ejara, which already boasts some 8,000 users from the six French-speaking African countries, affairs to “diversify into accouterment added assets, including apportioned shares, stocks and commodities.”

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