Home Tech News Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Jan 10, 2023 0 Comments
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Wasoko, formerly Sokowatch, a Kenya-based B2B marketplace that offers a BNPL service to retailers, raises a $125M Series B, source says at a $625M valuation  —  Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods are sold through its channels yearly.
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