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Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore raises $25M led by IFC and Endure Capital

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The Egyptian social e-commerce market will be worth over $14.8 The opportunity in the market can be attributed to the growth in online social sellers in the country, over 1.25 The company was founded by Mohamed Abdulaziz and Ahmed Sheikha in 2017. billion by 2024.

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Shares is a new stock trading app with a focus on social features

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Meet Shares , a new European startup that wants to add a social twist to financial investment — in this case, the company means “social” as in “social network” The startup has been developing its product under the radar for a few months already. It is also moving at a fast pace.

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How Zenly made social maps cool again — and what’s next

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Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. Originally designed in Paris, the app was acquired by Snap back in 2017. This isn’t a social network.

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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses

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Givz was founded in 2017 to make charitable giving more accessible and convenient for the masses. In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today.

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

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The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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Social care SaaS maker Birdie tops up with $30M

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The new funding brings its total raised since being founded back in 2017 to $52 million. In Birdie’s home market of the U.K., “We continue to be impressed by the team’s passion, calibre and commitment to social change and are proud to accompany them on their quest to reinvent care for the better.”

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Beam Impact raises $13.3M to turn everyday purchases into a way to support social causes

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Beam Impact , a company that enables consumers to turn their spending into a way to support social causes, has raised $13.3 The company’s B2B2C model connects consumers with brands that are supporting social causes and allows them to donate a portion of their purchases to a nonprofit of their choice, at no cost to them.

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