{"id":133849,"date":"2021-11-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=209158"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:46:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:46:49","slug":"opibus-closes-7-5-million-funding-round-largest-ever-for-an-african-electric-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/opibus-closes-7-5-million-funding-round-largest-ever-for-an-african-electric-mobility\/","title":{"rendered":"Opibus closes $7.5 million funding round, largest ever for an African electric mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/opibus-closes-7-5-million-funding-round-largest-ever-for-an-african-electric-mobility.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfrican electric mobility company Opibus announced today that it has closed on a round of equity and grant fundraising totaling $7.5 million. According to the company, this the largest sum of money raised by an electric mobility company in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, eclipsing the previous by $4 million. Opibus now looks to use this investment money to continue to scale its operations in electric motorcycle and bus manufacturing in Africa.. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/11\/02\/opibus-closes-7-5-million-funding-round-largest-ever-for-an-african-electric-mobility\/\" target='bwindow' rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/opibus-closes-7-5-million-funding-round-largest-ever-for-an-african-electric-mobility\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257492,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133849\/revisions\/257492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}