“We are pleased to partner with MARA as it embarks on building a digital financial system for Sub-Saharan Africa,” says Schuster Tanger, co-founder of TQ Ventures, one of the investors, in a statement. “With the right resources, this region has potential for mass adoption of cryptocurrency. To that end, the local knowledge and specialized skills of the MARA team is quite promising.”

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/mara-raises-23m-from-coinbase-ventures-and-ftx-to-build-africas-portal-to-the-crypto-economy/