SiliconHills

MAY 9, 2013

BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate mobile payments, won the IBM Global Entrepreneur pitch competition Wednesday at the IBM campus on Burnett.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 28, 2014

Uganda has more than 10 million people without safe water to drink. The idea for the business came to Ku when she was a nineteen-year-old volunteer at a clinic in Uganda. Ku started her non-profit with $15,000 grant from Harvard and a donated piece of land in Kumi, Uganda where she built a ceramic factory to make water filters.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2023

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. In order to go forward with its expansion goals, MyDawa recently finished the acquisition of Guardian Health, a well-known healthcare provider in Uganda.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AMLR) Regulation takes effect in 2027, with major updates including: Extending the scope of regulated entities (and adding crowdfunding platforms, in response to which Meta withdrew direct fundraising services in the EU and removed the donation buttons on Facebook ).

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