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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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Fawry and Roboost Team Up to Optimize Courier Payment Systems
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April 24, 2024
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South African Edtech Startup HyperionDev Raises $5M to Explore More UK Expansion
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April 24, 2024
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Renew Capital Investment Series: Kenyan B2B Food Platform Farm to Feed Joins the Roster
Renew Capital, an Africa-focused impact investment firm, recently announced its strategic investment in Farm...
April 24, 2024
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Egyptian Group-Buying Platform Waffarha Attracts Major Investment, Eyes Saudi Market Entry
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April 23, 2024
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New $1.9M Investment Powers New EV Charging Stations Across Kenya
Kenya Power, the leading electricity provider in Kenya, has unveiled plans to invest a...
April 22, 2024
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TLcom Capital Raises New $154 Million, to Target More Southern African and Egyptian Tech Startups
TLcom Capital, a venture capital firm with a track record of backing notable east...
April 22, 2024
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Zambia’s Premier Ride-hailing Startup, Ulendo, Enters Liquidation
In a major development impacting Zambia’s ride-hailing landscape, Ulendo Taxi Limited, the pioneering ride-hailing...
April 21, 2024
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WeCare, the Tunisian DeepTech Championing Lab-Grown Diamonds, Raises Funding to Scale
WeCare Foundation, led by Saad Kassis Mohamed, has recently secured a substantial $350,000 investment...
April 21, 2024
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Alleged Involvement in Scam: Banxso Draws Regulatory Scrutiny in South Africa
Cape Town-based online trading platform Banxso finds itself under the regulatory microscope following allegations...
April 19, 2024
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TLG Capital Pours $3 Million into Nigeria’s BFREE to Reshape Ethical Debt Collection Practices in Africa
TLG Capital, a leader in alternative asset management, and BFREE, specializing in ethical credit...
April 19, 2024
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Nigeria’s Wakanow.com Expands Operations into Cameroon, Promises Tailored Travel Solutions
Wakanow.com, a Nigerian travel service, has expanded its operations into Cameroon, marking a significant...
April 18, 2024
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Four More Sectors Now Open to Foreign Investors in Ethiopia
In a decisive move aimed at revitalizing its economy and positioning itself more competitively...
April 17, 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
Updates
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
