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Local Investors Stage Partial Comeback in African Tech After Sharp First-Half Retreat
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Inside the Room: The Five-Year Negotiation That Got Ghanaian Pensions to Back Venture Capital
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Revolut’s Morocco Ambitions Hit a Wall as Regulator Puts Priorities Elsewhere
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NewTrails Capital, Backed by Africa’s Leading Smartphone Manufacturer, Invests $55M in EV Startup Spiro
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Ripple Buys Into Flutterwave to Open New Front in African Stablecoin Wars
CENTRAL AFRICA
Remittance Fintechs Brace for Longer Delays and Higher Fees Across Central Africa
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DBSA Doubles Down on EV Charging With Backing for Zimi
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Seven Brutal Truths About African Tech Startup Funding in H1 2026
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Pitch Decks vs. Prospectuses: The Messy Courtship of Africa’s Tech Scene and Old-Money Bourses
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While Others Fled, This Nigerian Corporate VC Kept Writing Cheques
Analysis & Opinions
The Short, Unfinished Life of PayPal’s $100 Million Emerging Markets Fund
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Nigeria’s Startup Graveyard Has Become a Bargain Bin for Buyers
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The 90% Collapse: How US Tech and Infrastructure Debt Turned African AI Into a Rounding Error
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Charging Depots, Battery Swaps and Fleet Finance: The 5 Models Winning African EV Capital
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Local VCs Are Quietly Retreating From African Startup Cap Tables
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‘Timing Is Critical’: How a Pandemic Almost Killed Weego and Accidentally Built Its B2B Engine
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From Profitability to $10M ARR: How Prembly Cracked Africa’s Identity Infrastructure
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‘Stay in It’: How Over 200 Interviews and a LinkedIn Post Led to a $2.35M Seed Round for Orca
Ecosystem News
‘Don’t Wait for a Cash Crunch’: The $70M Debt Playbook from Lula’s Trevor Gosling
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“Harder to Build, but More Defensible”: Enakl Co-Founder on Tackling Morocco’s Commuter Chaos
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‘Valuations Still Far Too High’: Lexi Novitske on Investing a $205m Africa Tech Fund Amid Market Turbulence
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“Don’t Build for Hypothetical Problems”: What Immobazyme’s Founders Learned While Dragging University IP Into the Marketplace
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‘Don’t Wait to Be Perfect’: How Selling Imperfect Produce Helped Farm to Feed Land a $1.5M Seed Round
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Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences
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West African Payments Reform Gets Three-Month Reprieve for Fintech Operators
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A Reprieve for Kenya’s Electric Vehicles. But for How Long?
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Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires — or Divest
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Ghana Bans Local Financial Institutions From Backing Crypto-Linked Dollar Accounts
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The Tennis Court Rule: Nigeria’s Fintechs Learn to Live on a 70-Metre Leash
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Egypt Launches Startup Authority as Battle for Founders Intensifies
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From Tax Bots to Farm Finance, Hyper-Local AI Is South Africa’s New Battleground
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Proparco Anchors Rare Moroccan LP Position in EmTech’s New $60M Early-Stage Fund
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‘Timing Is Critical’: How a Pandemic Almost Killed Weego and Accidentally Built Its B2B Engine
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Africa’s Electric Mobility Pioneers Turn to Operators in Race for Profitability
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Fintech Margins Under Pressure as Pan-African Payments Race Reaches Ghana
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Morocco’s Done.ma Raised $2M to Challenge Glovo. Now It Faces Bankruptcy Speculation
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AI-First Telcos Will Lead the Race in Africa
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Novastar Ventures Targets AI-Native African Startups With Google-Backed Lab
The initiative is part of a broader push by Google to deepen its understanding of AI use cases emerging from African markets.
July 2, 2026
Policy & Regulations Forum
Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences
The regulator revokes 46 permits, including those acquired by digital lenders eager to vault into deposit-taking.
July 2, 2026
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May 1, 2024
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Logidoo Unveils Platform, Sourcing Unit, and Expanded Trade Routes to Streamline Logistics
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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
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Nigeria’s CapitalSage Repays $1.8M Commercial Paper Issuance
CapitalSage Technology Limited, a prominent integrated digital financial services group, recently celebrated the successful...
April 29, 2024
EASTERN AFRICA
Ugandan Health-Tech Startup MamaOpe Medicals Closes Funding Round for Innovative ‘Smart Jacket’ Pneumonia Diagnosis Tool
Uganda-based MamaOpe Medicals has recently announced the successful closure of an investment round aimed...
April 29, 2024
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Glovo and Morocco’s LaCaisse.ma Join Forces for Seamless Point-of-Sale Integration
Glovo and the Moroccan startup LaCaisse.ma have entered into a partnership aimed at integrating...
April 27, 2024
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Cameroon Bans Starlink Kit Imports Citing National Security Concerns
The Cameroon government has announced a ban on the importation of Starlink kits, the...
April 25, 2024
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Investor Confidence Soars as Nigeria’s FairMoney Completes Series 4 Commercial Paper Redemption
Fast Credit, operating under the brand name FairMoney, has recently achieved a significant milestone...
April 25, 2024
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Flourish Ventures-Backed Investment Platform, Madica, Reveals Initial Portfolio of African Tech Startups
Madica, a structured investment initiative tailored for pre-seed stage startups across Africa, has unveiled...
April 25, 2024
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Egypt’s Notchnco Expands to Saudi Arabia
In a testament to its sustained success and strategic foresight, Notchnco commemorates three years...
April 25, 2024
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Novastar Ventures Targets AI-Native African Startups With Google-Backed Lab
The initiative is part of a broader push by Google to deepen its understanding of AI use cases emerging from African markets.
July 2, 2026
Policy & Regulations Forum
Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences
The regulator revokes 46 permits, including those acquired by digital lenders eager to vault into deposit-taking.
July 2, 2026
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African Startups Surpass $1bn in First-Half Funding Despite Slower Equity Flows
Debt and climate finance drive a structural shift as the total for the year reaches $1.208bn, though it trails last year's pace.
July 1, 2026
Analysis & Opinions
Seven Brutal Truths About African Tech Startup Funding in H1 2026
The typical founder is raising less than half of what they raised a year ago.
July 1, 2026
