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| 08.08.2024 | Nigeria: Africacomicade's Gamathon Returns for Fourth Edition | Iyke Bede writes that Gamathon, Africa's premier convention for the interactive and immersive media industry, is a major event, attracting an average of over 2,000 unique visitors annually who come to learn, connect, and showcase their proj... |
| 17.07.2024 | Africa’s Regulatory Push Paves the Way for Funding Rebound | Share this:
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| 29.06.2024 | 🚀Entering Tech #68: Who’s to blame for “oga-driven” development? | Here’s how to step up your game as a product manager.
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| 05.06.2024 | MEET ITEL’S FIRST GAME TEAM AT THE RS4 CITY TOUR GRAND FINALE | itel, in collaboration with esteemed partners Google, 108NE Sports, MTN, Minimie, Carry1st, Ridima, Monster, and Palmstore, hosted the sensational grand finale of the RS4 City Tour Gaming Tournament on June 1st, 2024, at the Nebo Hall in Oj... |
| 29.01.2024 | Carry1st Receives Strategic Investment from Sony Innovation Fund | Carry1st, a Cape Town, South Africa-based game publisher and a provider of a digital commerce platform, received a strategic investment from Sony Innovation Fund.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| 01.05.2023 | Beyond Payments for High-Risk Industries | Today, most merchants looking to sell a product or service online can quickly get their payment system live with the help of a modern checkout platform. If the merchant works in a “high-risk” industry like games, sports betting, telehealth,... |
| 03.02.2023 | Carry1st Acquires Gebeta from Qene Games
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Driving African culture to the peak of global recognition and accurate representation through gaming, Gebeta, a product of Qene Games, has been acquired by Carry1st, Africa’s leading mobile games and interactive cont... |
| 02.02.2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a gennaio 2023 | Gli investimenti nel mercato del Venture Capital (VC) in Europa, nel corso del 2022, sono diminuiti rispetto all’anno record 2021, passando da 108,9 miliardi di euro a 91,6 miliardi di euro. Dati e grafico PitchBook
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| 18.01.2023 | Carry1st Raises $27M in Funding | Carry1st, a Cape Town, Africa-based mobile games publisher, raised $27M in funding.
The round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), TTV Capital, Alumni Ventures, Lateral Capital, Kepple Ventures, ... |
| 17.01.2023 | Africa Web3 games publisher Carry1st raises $27M | - |
| 17.01.2023 | African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M in funding to become next frontier in mobile gaming in Africa | While gaming has almost reached its saturation point here in the US and Asia, the mass adoption of mobile games is just getting started in Africa. With millions of Africans now having access to smartphones, the game penetration level in Afr... |
| 17.01.2023 | African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M from Bitkraft Ventures and a16z | In the coming decades, Africa will be a significant growth market for mobile games, driven by the proliferation of technology adoption among the continent’s youthful population. And as gamers in sub-Saharan Africa increase to more than 180 ... |
| 18.10.2022 | 50 African tech founders launch Pando DAO to drive development across Africa | In recent times, the African tech ecosystem has been on a steady upward trajectory. This year, venture funding on the continent is projected to cross the 7 billion mark with almost a thousand deals, establishing the continent as an outlier ... |
| 14.02.2022 | 33. Carry1st | 0 shares
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Founders: Lucy Hoffman, Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu and Cordel Robbin-Coker
Website: https://www.carry1st.com/
Business: A mobile gaming publishing platform allowing gaming studios from around the world... |
| 09.02.2022 | SA non-profits, SMEs get share of Google’s $1bn fund | Internet giant Google has made a multimillion-dollar investment to support South African SMEs and non-profit organisations, in what it says is a move to contribute to SA’s digital economy.
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| 09.02.2022 | Google Backs SA’s Economic Recovery With Support For Startups, SMMEs And Nonprofits | Google |
| 09.02.2022 | Google Backs SA’s Economic Recovery With Support For Startups, SMMEs And Nonprofits | Google
At a virtual Google for South Africa event today, Google unpacked its support for startups, SMMEs and nonprofits in a bid to accelerate digital transformation and help South Africa’s economy recover. This follows announcements made a... |
| 21.01.2022 | Carry1st Raises $20M From Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Avenir to Scale Interactive Content Across Africa | Share this:
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| 20.01.2022 | Carry1st funding round brings a16z investment to Africa | Africa’s leading mobile games publisher Carry1st announced a $20 million Series A extension that drew participation from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Avenir and Google.
Grammy winning rapper Nas was among the angel investors along with extra ... |
| 20.01.2022 | Carry1st funding round brings a16z investment to Africa | Africa’s leading mobile games publisher Carry1st announced a $20 million Series A extension that drew participation from Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Avenir and Google.
Grammy winning rapper Nas was among the angel investors along with extra... |
| 20.01.2022 | Simplifying blockchain, Frain’s $473k pre-seed and yesterday’s funding streak | Share this article:
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| 19.01.2022 | Inside crypto exchange FTX’s new venture fund | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 19.01.2022 | a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round | Carry1st, a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This is a16z’s first investment in an Africa-headquartered company (th... |
| 19.01.2022 | Investing in Carry1st | The African continent is in the midst of a massive generational shift, and with it a technological revolution. A young, middle-class, and rapidly growing population — 1.3B people with an average age of 19 years old — is in the driver’s seat... |
| 19.01.2022 | Carry1st raises $20M from A16z and Google for mobile games in Africa | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Carry1st has raised $20 million in funding from marquee investors for its mobile game publishing platform targeted at unlocking demand ... |
| 19.01.2022 | Carry1st raises $20M from A16z and Google for mobile games in Africa | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 02.12.2021 | Carry1st Partners With Chipper Cash And PayPal For Digital Payments Across Africa | Carry1st
Carry1st, Africa’s leading mobile games publisher, today announced it has partnered with online payments pioneers PayPal and Chipper Cash, a cross-border payments company recently valued at $2B, to enable people across Africa to ea... |
| 02.12.2021 | Carry1st Partners With Chipper Cash And PayPal For Digital Payments Across Africa | Carry1st |
| 09.11.2021 | How the concerns of gamers change depending on where they live | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamers in North America seem to focus on the same handful of concerns. For example, they constantly ask publishers if certain upcoming ... |
| 09.11.2021 | How the concerns of gamers change depending on where they live | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 07.05.2021 | Carry1st Raises $6 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Mobile Game Development in Africa | Carry1st, a mobile games publishing company that allows international gaming studios to tap into the underserved African industry, has raised $6 million in Series A funding, taking its cumulative funding to $9.5 million since its launch in ... |
| 05.05.2021 | Carry1st Raises $6M Series A to Scale Mobile Games in Africa | Share this:
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| 05.05.2021 | Carry1st’s payments solution for gaming spurs $6 million Series A | Cordel Robbin-Coker, Lucy Hoffman, and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu started Carry1st in 2018 to publish mobile games and interactive content for Africans. One of their games, Carry1st Trivia, got a lot of buzz in 2020 with about one and a half ... |
| 05.05.2021 | MTN goes public in Rwanda, Carry1st raises $6m, Twitter acquires Scroll | Share this article:
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| 04.05.2021 | Carry1st raises $6 million to publish mobile games in Africa | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Carry1st has raised $6 million in funding for its mobile game publishing platform targeted at the untapped potential of the African mar... |
| 04.05.2021 | Carry1st Raises $6M in Series A Funding | Carry1st, a Brooklyn, NY- and Century City, Cape Town, South Africa-based mobile games publishing platform that enables global gaming studios to expand across the African market, raised $6M in Series A funding.
The round, which has brought ... |
| 04.05.2021 | Carry1st raises $6 million to publish mobile games in Africa | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 04.05.2021 | Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A | Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming has never really picked up, despite the continent witnessing rapi... |
| 15.12.2020 | AppsAfrica Awards 2020 -Winners Announced | Share this:
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| 24.08.2020 | Jobs of the week: 6 awesome gaming companies that were founded by women | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Despite having a reputation for being a male-dominated industry, the world of gaming is full of brilliant female leaders who are taking... |
| 24.08.2020 | Jobs of the week: 6 awesome gaming companies that were founded by women | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 28.05.2020 | SA startup Carry1st raises $2.5m seed round | Cape Town based startup Carry1st, which is looking to use games to build what could be Africa’s first super app, has raised seed round of $2.5 million led by Johannesburg based venture capital (VC) fund CRE Venture Capital.
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| 28.05.2020 | SA startup Carry1st raises $2.5m seed round | Cape Town based startup Carry1st, which is looking to use games to build what could be Africa’s first super app, has raised seed round of $2.5 million led by Johannesburg based venture capital (VC) fund CRE Venture Capital.
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| 27.05.2020 | Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming | Gaming development startup Carry1st has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by CRE Venture Capital .
That brings the company’s total VC to $4 million, which Carry1st will deploy to support and invest in game publishing across Africa.
The s... |
| 06.01.2020 | Here are 10 African startups to watch in 2020 | Wondering what 2020 has in store for Africa’s tech startup scene?
If you’re looking to keep tabs on the movers and shakers that will define this year then join us as we look at the 10 startups that you should consider paying attention to i... |
| 06.01.2020 | Here are 10 African startups to watch in 2020 | Wondering what 2020 has in store for Africa’s tech startup scene?
If you’re looking to keep tabs on the movers and shakers that will define this year then join us as we look at the 10 startups that you should consider paying attention to in... |
| 06.12.2019 | SA startup Carry1st out to create Africa’s first ‘super app’ with $2m war chest | One of the most interesting trends to have come out of the Asian tech startup scene, particularly Indonesia and China, is the emergence of the “super app”.
A super app is one that offers users seamless access to a number of services, often... |
| 06.12.2019 | SA startup Carry1st out to create Africa’s first ‘super app’ with $2m war chest | One of the most interesting trends to have come out of the Asian tech startup scene, particularly Indonesia and China, is the emergence of the “super app”.
A super app is one that offers users seamless access to a number of services, often ... |
| - | Carry1st Raises $6 Million in Series A Funding to Expand Mobile Game Development in Africa | Carry1st, a mobile games publishing company that allows international gaming studios to tap into the underserved African industry, has raised $6 million in Series A funding, taking its cumulative funding to $9.5 million since its launch in ... |
| - | Carry1st | “Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.” |
