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Oppenheimer, Cisco-Backed Harambe Raise Funds for Africa Tech Startups

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Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance, whose backers include Cisco Systems Inc. and a foundation of South African businessman Jonathan Oppenheimer, has raised $1 million to support its African technology startups and help kick-start the return of venture capital to the continent following the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg reports.

The group has allocated about $100,000 each for two Nigerian companies-Max.ng, a taxi-hailing service, and Releaf Group, a platform for sorting and distributing farm products, to help them through economic downturns caused by the pandemic, Harambe Chairman Okendo Lewis-Gayle said in a phone interview.

“The capital markets have frozen up,” said Lewis-Gayle, who founded Harambe in 2008. “We are hoping to create a domino effect in terms of investment in African startups.”

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Based in the U.S., Harambe has raised more than $500 million from prominent families, individuals and international companies to support African entrepreneurs.

Its list of past investors has included Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, and Bill Gates.

Venture capital across the world has been drying up, with deals down 23% during the first quarter of the year compared with 2019, according to Preqin Ltd., as investors and funds take a more cautious approach amid the pandemic.

Africa is no exception, despite being less affected by the virus than Europe and North America. About half of Harambe’s companies expect the financial impact to become critical in the next three months, Lewis-Gayle said.

“We are expecting them to adapt,” he said. For example, Max “has decided to also include home-deliveries of goods as part of its service, and actually delivers for free to the elderly population.”

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