Africa's most innovative companies:Rasello
www.venturesafrica.com Ideas rule the world and in this age, innovation is key. Businesses thrive on Eureka!
moments, as innovation has become the benchmark for excellence. For most
businesses/entrepreneurs the effective application of ideas determines whether a startup
progresses to a multi-billion dollar company, a la Google, Facebook, Apple, or goes bust!
African entrepreneurs have also tapped into the endless stream of Eureka! moments and have
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Rasello and seconds trapping into SMS for business
www.betakit.comSmartphone growth is trending upward worldwide, but there’s still a huge percentage of the
population using feature phones, and another group of users for whom a stable and consistent
data connection is little more than a dream. A couple recent startups are poised to address
those markets directly, both in emerging markets and in North America
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CNBC Africa Profiles CGE Digital Internship Program to Help African Businesses
www.thecge.netRasello, based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, asked a CGE Alpha Team to develop a roadmap for
growth across Africa, and for positioning the company’s longer-term expansion into global
markets. The team was comprised of 21 participants, which included 12 students, 6 business
professionals, and 3 faculty members from 15 countries. The team was made up of eleven men
and ten women ...
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Tanzanian cloud-based company flying high after seed funding from Dubai
www.thenational.aeEven in this cyber age, many businesses in East Africa and the Middle East still do not have
an online presence.
And that got Natalino Mwenda thinking. After eight years in the advertising sector, and
paying out of pocket to host an online account for six months, Mr Mwenda co-founded a
cloud-based company in his hometown of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Along with his friend Puspa Raj Bhattarai, he attracted US$20,000 (...
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Africa’s Most Innovative Companies: Rasello
www.en.africatime.comIdeas rule the world and in this age, innovation is key. Businesses thrive on Eureka!
moments, as innovation has become the benchmark for excellence. For most
businesses/entrepreneurs the effective application of ideas determines whether a startup
progresses to a multi-billion dollar company, a la Google, Facebook, Apple, or goes bust!
African entrepreneurs have also tapped into the endless stream of Eureka! moments and have
...
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5 Innovative African Companies You Should Know
www.forbes.comFor the past few weeks, FORBES has been celebrating the World’s Most Innovative Companies.
There are no African companies featured on the list.
But here are five African companies who share a few things in common with the most
innovative outfits: They have immense ability to create new businesses and profitable
growth...
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Rasello is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool that simplifies customer retention by automating targeted SMS and email communications
www.seedstartup.comA cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool that simplifies customer retention
by automating targeted communications between businesses and their customers. Focused on
SMEs and enterprise clients in emerging markets...
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African Startup Launches SMS Marketing Platform For Businesses
www.wamda.comThree months ago, African entrepreneur Natalino Mwenda launched Rasello, the first platform
allowing African small businesses to communicate directly with clients through online and
SMS broadcasts.
Along with his co-founder, Puspa Raj Bhattarai, Mwenda initially set out to serve the 80-90%
of businesses in Africa and ...
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FUNDRAISING: RASELLO, TANZANIA’S RMS – BUILT TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF MILLIONS
www.vc4a.comToday’s featured member of the VC4Africa platform is entrepreneur Natalino Mwenda of Rasello.
Rasello is a Relationship Management System (RMS) based in Tanzania, that is being utilized
by hundreds of businesses, managing close to 500,000 people across Africa. Rasello secured a
lead investor and is fundraising on VC4Africa – see Rasello’s venture profile. Only
registered investors can review documents, see details for this deal, and expre...
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Candid Business – Natalino Mwenda
www.cliffcentral.comEllis Mnyandu looks at a unique strategic advisory programme run by The Center for Global
Enterprise (CGE) to equip African businesses, including start-ups, with world-class
technical and strategic capacity to drive growth, tap new markets and contribute to the
continent’s development. Ellis is joined on the show by Natalino Mwenda, CEO of Tanzanian
software start-up Rasello, which recently received strategic advice and engagement via the
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Meet the first three startups from the Middle East incubator ‘SeedStartup’s’ pilot program
www.thenextweb.comLast May, we told you about SeedStartup, a Dubai-based incubator that has since gone on to
become a member of the TechStars network, and has mentored 3 startups, after receiving over
70 applications from all over the world.
We caught up once again with SeedStartup founder Rony El Nashar, along with the three
startup founders who have recently graduated from the SeedStartup program to find out how
things went...
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The Center for Global Enterprise - Monthly archives: April 2016
www.thecge.netThe Center for Global Enterprise (CGE) has just completed a six week collaboration with
Rasello, a Tanzania-based enterprise software company. Ira Sager, vice present of global
learning initiatives for CGE, discussed the initiative with CNBC Africa, Friday April
29.Rasello, based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, asked a CGE Alpha Team to develop a roadmap
for growth across Africa,...
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Rasello Cloud based Business Communicaton Software that automates customer communication.
www.angel.coRasello enables businesses and professionals to instantly engage people and automate
communication to over 1.6 million customers that are currently managed on the Rasello
platform. Every month Rasello processes around 1 million interactions and today Rasello is
used across Africa and other emerging markets...
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Meet the 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2012
www.ventureburn.comThe final 40 startups for the first ever DEMO Africa conference have been announced. The 40
entrepreneurs chosen for the conference have gone through “three rigorous screening
processes with the final vetting and adjudication done by a pan-African panel of judges
comprised of entrepreneurs, VCs and Academia,” say the event organizers
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