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Apply for the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund 2023

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Recipients of the Black Founders Fund 2022

Naledi Magowe is the co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of Brastorne, a platform that connects farmers, youth, and women who can't afford smartphones or expensive data but have feature phones to the resources they need. With Google's support, Brastorne was able to invest in new analytics and business intelligence systems that allowed them to track user behavior metrics more effectively. This investment proved crucial to their success, as they have since launched successfully in Cameroon and reached an impressive 100K users in the first month alone.

Brastorne is a provider of mobile communication services dedicated to helping rural villagers of Africa to access the digital economy.

Daniel Temesgen is a co-founder and CEO of Garri Logistics, a Digital Freight Brokerage and Transport company that leverages technology to optimize an offline and fragmented logistics industry. Daniel’s participation in the Black Founders Fund allowed him to scale Garri Logistics across multiple fronts. He used the Google Cloud Credits to train multiple large machine learning models, and guidance from the Google mentors prepared him for fundraising.

Garri Logistics is a digital frieght transport and brokerage company with the mission of removing the hassle and pain from freight logistics