Terragon, Africa’s leading mobile marketing company, said on Thursday it has closed a $5 million funding round led by Africa-focused TLcom Capital with participation from other undisclosed investors.
The company announced the funding will be used to develop further its proprietary marketing technology which connects online and offline mobile channels to provide African brands and SMEs with more customer reach, engagement and conversions with self-service access. Terragon is pioneering the platform with Africa’s largest telco – MTN Nigeria. The Adrenaline platform from Terragon offers unprecedented reach and engagement channels for the African mobile customer with associated data and intelligence as is available on mobile web.
With African businesses in various industries struggling to reach and engage customers in the face of limited internet access and low literacy levels, Terragon is helping clients including FCMB and FBNQuest in financial services and Unilever and Samsung in the consumer goods space, connect with new and existing consumers across online and offline mobile channels providing the reach and targeting to deliver on their marketing objectives.
CEO, Elo Umeh said in an interview that the new investment will enable the Lagos-headquartered company hire the best available talent who will help drive business development efforts across industry verticals and solve unique mobile challenges to unlock significant value for African businesses.
Terragon has over 100 employees with offices in Lagos, Nigeria, Nairobi, Kenya, and Accra, Ghana alongside technology hubs in Bangalore, India and Ife, Nigeria.
It works closely with the largest mobile network operators in Africa, Fast moving consumer goods brands, agencies, financial institutions, leading publishers, mobile device manufacturers and app developers on the continent giving brands access to over 100M consumers on mobile web and non-web channels.
Ido Sum, partner at TLcom who is joining Terragon’s Board said: “We have followed Terragon closely for a while, seeing it developing into a world class Marketing Technology company targeting the unique African opportunity. Over recent years we led investments into Upstream (exited to Actis), as well as NYC based Persado and Cubiq who are among the leaders in the MarTech space in the US, and we are convinced that Terragon’s deep market understanding and platform quality can allow Africa’s top brands as well as SMEs to finally reach, acquire and serve African consumers at scale like never before”.
