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From Lagos Ride-Hailing to Global Robotaxis: Moove Raises $250M at $2.1B Valuation
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Canal+ and General Catalyst Back African Payments Startup Moment in $22M Series A
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From Fintech to Medtech, Casablanca Delivers Back-to-Back Tech IPOs
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Africa’s First EV Battery Gigafactory Secures $114M in AfDB Funding
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FMO Backs M-KOPA’s E-Mobility Spinout With $30M Green Debt Package
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Pepkor Creates $1.2bn Fintech Unicorn Ahead of Planned IPO
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Africa Go Green Tests a New Debt Model for African Carbon Projects With BioLite Financing
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Africa’s Top Equity Investors in Tech in H1 2026
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Context Is the New IP: Inside the New Wave of Africa’s Early-Stage AI Micro-M&A
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Third-Party Vendors vs. In-House Builds: The Real Divide in African Banking’s AI Success
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Is This the End of the Accelerator Era in African Tech?
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Why Africa’s Startup Funding Leaderboards Look Different This Year
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Beyond the Remittance Hype: The 3 Business Models Winning VC Cash in Africa’s Stablecoin Boom
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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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‘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
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‘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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Stablecoins, Remote Work, and Sweeping Levies: Can Nigerian Crypto Survive Its Tax Winter?
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Why Kenya’s Crypto Clampdown Is a Fortress for Banks
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From Binance Unblocks to Total Ban: Ethiopia Targets Crypto Wallets in Expanding Digital Asset Ban
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The Executive Order Behind Nigeria’s Crypto Licensing Confusion
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Equity Dispute Puts OPay’s Employee Share Scheme Under Scrutiny Ahead of Potential IPO
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Free Licences, Open Batteries and a 6-Month Time Bomb — Rwanda Plays Chicken With EV Founders
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Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences
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SA Repeat Founders Process Over $60m in Six Months With Stablecoin Safari Startup
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From an Angry Post to a $50m Ribbon-Cutting: The Land Battle Behind an Egyptian Deeptech Scaleup’s $50m Factory
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Airtel Africa Picks London for $245bn Mobile Money IPO but Faces Independence Test
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1M Users in 8 Years, 9M in 6: The Smartphone Pivot Driving M-KOPA’s Hypergrowth
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Donor-Backed AI Health Tools Proliferate Across Africa, but Sustainability Remains Elusive
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Rooibos Becomes South Africa’s Latest Export — to Space
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First-Time Founders Drive Nigeria’s Unicorn Boom
Moove's $2.1bn valuation highlights the country's ability to mint billion-dollar companies without serial entrepreneurs.
August 6, 2026
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Copia Kenya’s Fate Hangs in the Balance as Parent Company Collapses and Administration Procedure Begins
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May 24, 2024
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A National Startup Unit Now Up and Running in Egypt: Here’s What It Offers Startups
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May 24, 2024
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Catalyst Fund’s Investment Series: Tanzania’s Waste-to-Protein Startup BioBuu Joins the List
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May 24, 2024
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Short-Lived Partnership Ends in Acquisition: Canadian Bus Ticketing Firm Takes Over South Africa’s Ratality
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May 23, 2024
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Egypt’s Birdnest Wants to Become Leading Short-Term Rental Platform in MENA with New Funding
Birdnest, an Egyptian property rental platform founded in 2020, has announced the successful...
May 23, 2024
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Digital Nomad Visa Now Gazetted in South Africa: Stay More Than Six Months, Register for Tax
In a move designed to boost the economy, South Africa has finally gazetted a...
May 23, 2024
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Despite Copia Global’s Uncertain Future, Secured Lender Holds Firm to $7.7 Million Loan
Kenyan e-commerce startup Copia Global made headlines recently with announcements of potential layoffs and...
May 22, 2024
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Kosmos Innovation Center: The Incubator Aggressively Backing Agritech Startups in Ghana
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May 22, 2024
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Tunisian AgTech Startup NextProtein Pours $39.4 Million into Mexico, One Year After US Expansion
NextProtein LATAM, a French and Tunisia-born multinational specializing in the production of animal feed...
May 21, 2024
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Egyptian BNPL Platform ValU Secures $13.2 Million in New Financing Round
ValU, a leading financial services technology company in the Middle East and North Africa,...
May 21, 2024
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Why is Kenya Communications Authority Launching a Regulatory Sandbox, And How Can Startups Participate?
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) is establishing a regulatory sandbox to provide a...
May 21, 2024
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How AWS Powers South African Digital Bank TymeBank
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May 21, 2024
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First-Time Founders Drive Nigeria’s Unicorn Boom
Moove's $2.1bn valuation highlights the country's ability to mint billion-dollar companies without serial entrepreneurs.
August 6, 2026
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Silverbacks Logs Massive Paper Gain as $37M Moove Bet Reaches $62M
A Mauritius-based investment firm has made its biggest-ever bet on Africa's latest unicorn.
August 6, 2026
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Why African Fintech PalmPay Is Eyeing Hong Kong for a $1bn IPO
Nigeria's two largest mobile payment heavyweights are both eyeing IPOs, but their target exchanges tell a story of contrasting global ambitions.
August 5, 2026
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EFG Finance Takes Majority Stake in Egypt’s First Remittance Aggregator Balad
The transaction hands control of the startup to one of Egypt’s largest financial groups.
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