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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
Analysis & Opinions
Is This the End of the Accelerator Era in African Tech?
Analysis & Opinions
Why Africa’s Startup Funding Leaderboards Look Different This Year
Analysis & Opinions
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
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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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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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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Angel Investors Back Egyptian Healthtech Startup 30Med to Transform Medical Learning
Egyptian healthtech startup 30Med has announced securing pre-seed funding from undisclosed angel investors, marking...
March 19, 2024
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Proposed New Crypto Rules in Nigeria Set Crypto Startups on Edge of Extinction
In a move that could potentially reshape the crypto-currency landscape in Nigeria, the Securities...
March 18, 2024
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Sahel Capital Injects $590K into Nigerian Ag-tech Firm, Winich Farm
Sahel Capital, a key player in sub-Saharan Africa’s food and agriculture sector, has greenlit...
March 18, 2024
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How the New Crypto Licensing Regime Will Work in South Africa
South Africa is on the brink of implementing a revolutionary framework to regulate its...
March 16, 2024
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South African Health-Tech Startup RecoMed Secures Major Funding from Japanese Pharma Giant
South African digital healthcare marketplace startup RecoMed has struck a significant deal with Japanese...
March 15, 2024
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MDaaS Global Secures $3 Million in Funding to Expand Healthcare Network in Nigeria
MDaaS Global, a Nigerian health tech company dedicated to improving healthcare accessibility, has successfully...
March 7, 2024
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Mubadala and Bpifrance Collaborate to Invest in Partech’s Africa-Focused Venture Capital Fund
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company and France’s national investment bank Bpifrance have joined forces...
March 7, 2024
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Altree Capital Invests in Ghanaian E-mobility Startup Wahu Mobility
Altree Capital has announced its third investment into Wahu Mobility, a West African e-mobility...
March 6, 2024
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Binance Faces Regulatory Headwinds in Nigeria, Suspends Naira Services
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced its decision to suspend all services involving the...
March 5, 2024
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Ghana’s Complete Farmer Secures $300K Crowdfunding to Provide Inputs Finance for Farmers
In a significant milestone for Ghana’s burgeoning agritech sector, Complete Farmer, a leading Ghanaian...
March 5, 2024
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Deel Acquires South Africa’s PaySpace, to Expand HR Footprint in Africa
Deel, the HR startup valued at $12 billion, is making strategic strides in the...
March 5, 2024
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Acasia Ventures Joins $1.5M Pre-Seed Funding Round to Boost Kenyan Ecommerce Startup Tappi
In a significant move towards advancing the digital transformation of micro, small, and medium-sized...
March 5, 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
