Rwandan e-bike startup Ampersand banks $19.5m funding

Disrupt AfricaTom Jackson · 4 January 2024 at 06:00

The Kigali-based electric transport energy company Ampersand has raised US$19.5 million in equity and debt funding to help it continue to expand operations. Formed in 2016, Ampersand assembles and finances electric motorcycles that cost less to buy and operate, and perform better than the five…
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