The Big 5 Daily: 15th April, 2020

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Drum roll! 54gene has secured $15 million round from Adjuvant Capital. The fund will be used to scale its genome data bank 

Next, the Central Bank of Kenya is terminating access to credit reference bureaus for extortive mobile lenders. This is in a bid to respond to complaints from the public on misuse of credit information sharing service.  

Did you hear? The Nigeria-based renewable energy company, Rensource has launched merchlist.co. The new digital platform will link small and medium-sized retailers to customers.  

Also, Eventtus, an Egypt-based startup has secured an undisclosed investment. The startup will leverage the funding to roll out its digital event platform. 

Finally, a Gartner report has revealed that global PC shipment declined by 12.3% in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1 2020). The decline was due to the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  

 

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