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The Big 5 Daily: Boomplay Reaches 10 Million Installations, BlockChain for Agriculture and More.

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We are ending this week’s big 5 with good news from Ghana, Kenya, And Africa entirely.

US Impact Investor Invests $250k in Ghanaian Health Tech Start-up…  Gray Matters Capital has invested up “to $250 000” in Ghanaian medical diagnostics start-up called Redbird Health Tech.

Digital Music Service, Boomplay Reaches 10 Million… The platform rose to 1 million installations in January 2017 and by November of the same year, it had risen to 5 million. Its fast-growing streak of installations doubled in June 2018 to 10 million installations making its total user base 29 million.

Now, let’s move to Agritech. Kenyan agritech start-up Apollo Agriculture has secured US$500,000 in funding from Dutch Development Bank FMO and the Rabobank Foundation to fund harvesting cycles, further develop its credit model, and expand geographically.

Can blockchain Plug Africa’s Agri-Finance Gap?  This is a question that is begging for answers from major agri-tech stakeholders in Africa. This piece takes a cursory look at the analysis done by CTA Spore and sees if blockchain can take Africa’s agri-finance to another level.

10 African Start-ups Nominated for Startupbootcamp Accelerator… The 10 African tech start-ups are expected to participate in the multi-corporate backed accelerator programme, with each securing EUR15,000 (US$17,500) in funding and access to mentors and partners.

That’ll be all for this week. Do have a fabulous weekend and enjoy the World Cup Finals.

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