{"id":10174,"date":"2019-08-16T17:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/nigerian-logistics-startupi-kono360a-goldman-sachstan-30-million-usd-investment\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:56:45","slug":"nigerian-logistics-startupi-kono360a-goldman-sachstan-30-million-usd-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/nigerian-logistics-startupi-kono360a-goldman-sachstan-30-million-usd-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Million USD Investment by Goldman Sachs in Nigerian Logistics Startup Kono360"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tirport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Nijeryali-Lojistik-Startup-i-Kono360-a-Goldman-Sachs-tan-30-Milyon-USD-Yatirim.webp\" alt=\"30 Million USD Investment by Goldman Sachs in Nigerian Logistics Startup Kono360\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology startups that digitize Logistics Management continue to spread around the world. Nijerja-based Kobo360, which was launched in Nigeria in 2017 and aims to grow in Africa alongside Ninerja, has managed to attract the attention of Goldman Sachs, one of the world&#8217;s leading investment funds.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this investment, Golman Sachs has shown that it continues to invest in promising logistics technologies in developing countries. He invested 20 Million USD in Kobo360 as a Series A investment. Goldman Sachs also invested in CargoX in 2016, which is on its way to becoming the first unicorn to come out of Brazil.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kobo360 also received $10 million in working capital funding from Nigerian Commercial banks at the same time.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bringing together those who carry cargo and those who carry cargo on a digital platform with a business model similar to UBER, Kobo360 still operates in Togo, Ghana and Kenya as well as Nigeria and aims to expand to 10 countries.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The platform, which has more than 10 thousand trucker members, serves global groups such as Honeywell, Olam, Unilever, Dangote and DHL.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the fund of 30 million USD, Kobo360 will invest in its digital infrastructure, expand its operation network in 10 countries and design a new generation payment system that will be supported by blockchain infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click the news link for details: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/08\/14\/nigerian-logistics-startup-kobo360-raises-30m-backed-by-goldman-sachs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/08\/14\/nigerian-logistics-startup-kobo360-raises-30m-backed-by-goldman-sachs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo360.com\/NG\/tr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.kobo360.com\/NG\/tr\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology startups that digitize Logistics Management continue to spread around the world. Nijerja-based Kobo360, which was launched in Nigeria in 2017 and aims to grow in Africa alongside Ninerja, has managed to attract the attention of Goldman Sachs, one of the world&#8217;s leading investment funds. With this investment, Golman Sachs has shown that it continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tirport.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}