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Mastercard Launches New Start Path Programming to Support Minority-Owned Startups, Close Racial Wealth, Opportunity Gap

June 9, 2021/Mastercard New programming complements Mastercard investments in minority focused VCs including Authentic Ventures, Fearless Fund, CNote and The Astia Fund Venture capitalists invest less than 3 percent of funding to Black founders, resulting in fewer success stories. Mastercard today announced the launch of a new Start Path track […]

Nigerian Media Monitoring agency Partners MSME Africa to provide Support for MSMEs in Nigeria

June 9, 2021/ P+ Measurement Services Nigeria’s leading and foremost media intelligence agency, P+ Measurement Services partners Africa’s leading Opportunities and Resource Platform for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSME Africa to launch a tailored Media Monitoring and Evaluation Services for MSMEs in Nigeria. The service, which is the first of its kind in the […]

UBA, DEG Sign $50m Term Loan to Support Small Businesses in Nigeria

June 8, 2021/UBA Plc Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, the German Development Finance Institution, have entered into a partnership aimed at supporting small and medium scale businesses (SMEs) in Nigeria. To this end, both institutions have signed a USD […]