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Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised a $30 million Pre-Series B funding round to enable businesses to easily and securely receive customer payments across Africa
The funding round was led by San Francisco-based Base10 Partners, with participation from Partech, Khosla Ventures, Helios Digital Ventures and Shopify. Founded in 2016, Nomba is creating tools for businesses to manage sales, money and payments without hurdles. The startup is on a mission to build an ecosystem that simplifies how businesses accept payments, make payments and manage operations.
Nomba intends to invest the new funding in delivering tailored payment and operational solutions designed for specific businesses, including food companies, restaurants, logistics and transport companies, to plug gaps in their payment processes.

Kenyan insurtech startup mTek has raised $1.25 million in a funding round led by Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures and Founders Factory Africa.

Insight Terra has successfully closed a $5.7 million Series A extension funding round, positioning itself to expand its AI-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) and environmental risk management platform.

Africa-focused agribusiness investment firm AgDevCo has received a significant financial boost through an $85 million joint investment from Swedfund, British International Investment (BII), and Norfund.