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Egypt’s Tech IPO Freeze Thaws as MNT-Halan Draws Record Demand
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Climate Fintech Nithio Launches $150M Debt Fund to Back Africa’s Electric Vehicle Fleets
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Airtel Money Begins Unconditional Trading on London Stock Exchange in Landmark African Fintech Listing
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Uber and Jumia Alumni Close Moroccan Agritech YoLa Fresh After Failing to Secure Series A
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The Local Airbnb Rival That Held Off the Giant: South Africa’s LekkeSlaap Bought by Banking Royalty
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IFC Eyes $90M Equity Stake in Airtel Money as London IPO Gathers Momentum
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How TLCOM Is Adapting to Africa’s VC Realignment
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Is African Healthtech Facing a Terminal Diagnosis?
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African Fintech’s Debt Shift Comes With a Catch
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From DFS Lab to Mubadala: The Rare Repeat Alliances Funding African Tech in 2026
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South Africa’s Electric Car Shift Bypasses Full Battery Models as Chinese Brands Tighten Grip
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The East Is Settling Into African Tech, Quietly
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Five Countries, Half a Million Dollars: Inside Nigeria’s New Startup Funding Math
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Priced Out of London: Why Nigeria’s Fintechs Are Abandoning UK Remittances
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From Wages to Fraud to Deliveries: The Pattern Behind South Africa’s Recent Startup Funding
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How TLCOM Is Adapting to Africa’s VC Realignment
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“Directly Selling Insurance to Farmers Does Not Work”: Pula CEO on Avoiding Agtech’s Deadliest Trap
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‘We Aren’t Fighting Rival EVs’: Inside ARC Ride’s $33.3m Bet on Beating Petrol
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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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The ₦100m Question Facing Lagos’ Gaming Founders
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The Secret Antitrust Battle That Helped Sink Koko Networks
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Free Transfers, Capped Fees: Inside the Pricing Shock Facing West Africa’s $267B Mobile Money Market
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Fintech Unicorn Wave Caves to Regulators as BCEAO Holds Firm on West Africa’s Payment Deadline
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Tunisia’s Fintech Crackdown
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Algeria’s Fintech Era Begins as Telecom Giant Djezzy Secures Country’s First PSP License
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Open Rails, Closed Doors: West Africa’s Central Bank Is Entrenching Bank Monopolies
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Nine Years After Its Founding, OPay’s IPO Filing Leaves Questions Over Employee Stock Options
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M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event
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Two Exits in Six Years: Dan Kleinbaum’s GTXN Acquired by Luno
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Cairo’s BPO Ecosystem Opens a New Front for Transatlantic Dealmaking
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Four Startups, One Lead Investor: Inside Atlantica’s African AI Infrastructure Thesis
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Familiar Money Bolsters OPay’s IPO Demand as Thin Float Raises Liquidity Questions
As the Nigerian payments giant prepares to hit Wall Street, filings reveal an IPO heavily reliant on existing money.
October 23, 2026
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A regulatory clampdown has turned existing consumer finance licences into scarce commodities, sparking a rush of high-stakes deals across Cairo.
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May 21, 2024
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Visa announced the selection of over 20 African fintech startups for the second cohort...
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dLocal Devastated in Nigeria: 78% Loss Sees Egypt Become Africa’s Payments King
In a significant shift within Africa’s financial landscape, Egypt has surpassed Nigeria to become...
May 20, 2024
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European VC Openseed Wants to Invest up to $150K in African Startups
Maria Rotilu, a former investor with Octopus Ventures and Oxford Seed Fund, is launching...
May 20, 2024
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Spiro Secures $50 Million Debt Financing to Expand Electric Vehicle Presence in Africa
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Familiar Money Bolsters OPay’s IPO Demand as Thin Float Raises Liquidity Questions
As the Nigerian payments giant prepares to hit Wall Street, filings reveal an IPO heavily reliant on existing money.
October 23, 2026
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Khazna Joins Egypt’s Consumer Finance M&A Rush With Pharos Acquisition
A regulatory clampdown has turned existing consumer finance licences into scarce commodities, sparking a rush of high-stakes deals across Cairo.
October 22, 2026
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Aries Media Ventures Launches Fund I to Back Underfunded Mediatech Startups in Sub-Saharan Africa
Former NBCUniversal exec is ditching Hollywood to back African mediatech
October 21, 2026
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9,228 Daily Swaps: Egyptian Billionaire-Backed Blu EV Tests the Limits of Battery-as-a-Service in MENA
Naguib Sawiris's battery-swapping group has built the largest network of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether each cabinet earns back the batteries it cycles is a question it has not answered.
October 21, 2026
