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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?
Analysis & Opinions
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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Why Europe’s Development Bank Is Writing Multi-Million Euro Checks for Egyptian Fintechs
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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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August 6, 2026
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“Margins Too Tight,” Glovo CEO Hints at Quitting Ghana
Spanish delivery startup, Glovo, has recently announced its decision to cease operations in Ghana,...
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More Routes, More Countries: BuuPass Acquires QuickBus to Simplify Travel Across Africa
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May 1, 2024
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Agritech Allure: Jumia Kenya CEO Forfeits Lucrative Compensation Package for Twiga Foods
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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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Egyptian Transport Startup Swvl Records $12 Million in Operating Profit, After Acquisition Spree Losses
Swvl Holdings Corp (Nasdaq: SWVL), an Egypt-born global provider of mobility solutions for businesses...
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
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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
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April 25, 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.
August 5, 2026
