African Startup Raises $6 Million From Pre-Series A Funding Round
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African Startup Raises $6 Million From Pre-Series A Funding Round

THELOGICALINDIAN - Africa Blockchain Lab afresh said it has aloft 6 actor from a preSeries A advance annular and will use the basic to armamentarium the barrage of a crypto wallet

Driving Adoption of Cryptocurrencies

An African crypto startup, Africa Blockchain Lab, afresh accepted it has accustomed $6 actor from a pre-Series A advance round. The annular was led by a bunch of all-around as able-bodied as African adventure basic firms like Lateral Frontiers VC, CRE Adventure Capital, and Musha Ventures.

Global investors that took allotment in this annular accommodate Dragonfly Capital, Hashkey Capital, SNZ Capital, Fenbushi, Cadenza Capital, Head & Shoulder X, LeadBlock, Hash Global, Bonfire, Krypital, and Despace.

According to a Tech Space Africa report, the startup is planning to use the basic aloft to armamentarium the barrage of its crypto wallet accepted as Vibra. The address additionally quotes Africa Blockchain Lab’s co-founder, Vincent Li, who explains the startup’s mission and how it will use the banking abetment it has accustomed to drive the acceptance of cryptocurrencies beyond the African continent. He said:

Inclusive Financial Ecosystem

Meanwhile, the aforementioned address quotes Steven Grin of Lateral Frontiers answer why the adventure basic close alternate in the pre-Series A round. He additionally accent his firm’s acceptance that “crypto can apprehend its abeyant as a technology and asset on the continent.”

Pardon Makumbe, Managing Partner at CRE Venture Capital said: “We accept Africa has a generational befalling to body a added collaborative and across-the-board banking ecosystem application decentralized technologies, in which all players are winners.”

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