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Ecosystem News
The Edtech Model That Survived Nigeria’s Funding Winter
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New Wave of Investors Targets Ghana’s Pension Billions After 5% Private Markets Mandate
Ecosystem News
Nigeria’s Tech Paradox: Why a Talent Boom Is Meeting a Capital Graveyard
Ecosystem News
The Rise of the Balance Sheet: African Banks Muscle into Venture Debt
Ecosystem News
A New Billion-Dollar Wave of Capital Targets African Climate Tech
Ecosystem News
Davos 2026: AI Takes Centre Stage as Technology Shapes Global Power
Ecosystem News
From King to Fourth: How Nigeria Missed Africa’s Funding Rebound in 2025
Research & Reports
Analysis & Opinions
Analysis & Opinions
Checkbooks and Caution: The Tentative Reset of African Tech Startups’ Missing Investors
Analysis & Opinions
Fragile but Forming: The Reality of Francophone Africa’s Angel Investing Landscape in 2025
Analysis & Opinions
The $2bn Power Play: Why Egypt Is Suddenly Africa’s Hottest Battery Market
Analysis & Opinions
Nigeria Leads the Charge as Local African VCs Look Beyond Their Borders in 2025
Analysis & Opinions
Local Capital First: Why SA’s R4.6bn Startup Buyout Spree Is Reshaping Africa’s Startup Exit Playbook
Analysis & Opinions
Africa’s Tech Reckoning: Why 2025 Became the Year of Deals, Departures and Difficult Truths
Analysis & Opinions
The Hunt Is On: Tracking African Startup-Led Acquisition Spree of 2025
Analysis & Opinions
Mapped: Where Gulf VC Money Is Currently Flowing in Africa — And Where It Isn’t
Hard Talks
Ecosystem News
‘Valuations Still Far Too High’: Lexi Novitske on Investing a $205m Africa Tech Fund Amid Market Turbulence
Hard Talks
“Don’t Build for Hypothetical Problems”: What Immobazyme’s Founders Learned While Dragging University IP Into the Marketplace
Hard Talks
‘Don’t Wait to Be Perfect’: How Selling Imperfect Produce Helped Farm to Feed Land a $1.5M Seed Round
Hard Talks
“We Carry the Weight for Others”: Inside the $2M Raise for Tanzania’s Hybrid AgriTech Pioneer MazaoHub
Hard Talks
‘I Collapsed and Cried for Hours’: How Hypeo AI’s Founder Turned Her Worst Day Into a Venture-Backed Startup
Hard Talks
How a Nigerian Engineer Helped Build a $1 Billion Fintech Giant
Hard Talks
GENIUS Act: “America is catching up to Africa on stablecoins” — Yellow Card’s Gillian Darko on Regulation, B2B Pivot
Hard Talks
From $100M Exit to 26 Startup Investments: Expensya Co-Founder Karim Jouini’s Strategy — “Focus Is Key”
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“Frictionless” No More: Nigeria’s Tax Reforms Turn Delaware Flips into Million-Dollar Liabilities
Policy & Regulations Forum
JSE Reforms Listing Regime as African Exchanges Fight for Tech IPOs
Policy & Regulations Forum
Mineworkers-Backed Agritech Livestock Wealth Fined, Loses Licence in South Africa
Policy & Regulations Forum
Africa Incorporated: Is It Time to Domesticate the Delaware Flip?
Policy & Regulations Forum
Algeria’s ‘Forced Marriage’: Why Big Business is Suddenly Swiping Right on Startups
Policy & Regulations Forum
A 3,900% Price Hike: Inside Nigeria’s Brutal New Licensing Regime for Fintechs and VCs
Policy & Regulations Forum
Tax Breaks and ‘Theatrical’ Reforms: Can Article 35 Finally Unlock Ivorian Tech?
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Japanese Solar Giant WASSHA Acquires Kenyan Mobility Startup Zaribee
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Island Life, Electric Vibes: The 2035 Deadline Sparking an EV Hardware Scramble in Mauritius
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AfricInvest Launches $100M Morocco Fund, Marking First Kingdom-Specific Vehicle Since 2012
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The 1M Club: Egyptian Insurtech Nice Deer Finds Rare Scale in a Paper-Heavy Market
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From Payments to Prompt Engineering: Inside TSG Labs, Paystack’s New AI-Focused Incubator
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The February Fade: When Good Intentions Lose Momentum
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Why Egypt’s 10m Instalment Customers Have Become Africa’s Most Fought-Over Fintech Asset
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‘Our Operations Remain Unaffected’: Livestock Wealth Plays Down Impact of FSCA Sanctions
"Livestock Wealth (Pty) Ltd has been operational since 2015 without interruption."
January 26, 2026
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Japanese Solar Giant WASSHA Acquires Kenyan Mobility Startup Zaribee
Zaribee, formerly known as Unchorlight Kenya, specializes in a rent-to-own model for motorcycle taxi (boda boda) riders.
January 26, 2026
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PayPal Launches $100M Hunt for Acquisitions and Minority Stakes in African Fintech
The move signals a deeper strategic push into the region for PayPal, building on its existing portfolio.
September 24, 2025
Partner Content
Payaza vs FairMoney: A New King Is Crowned in Nigeria’s Fintech Debt Market
The new SEC framework, effective April 24, 2025, ended the era of easy liquidity with several key mandates.
September 24, 2025
Analysis & Opinions
The ‘Fund Manager Factory’: Inside the High-Touch Model De-Risking Africa’s ‘Missing Middle’
This model is the antithesis of lean, remote investing.
September 24, 2025
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Fintech Unicorn Wave’s African Playbook Has Been Copied. What’s Its Next Move?
This week, Orange Cameroon, a subsidiary of the French telecoms giant, announced it was slashing all peer-to-peer transfer fees to zero.
September 24, 2025
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Silverbacks Backs Export-Focused African Fashion Startups in Creative Economy Push
The investment brings together a return-focused firm and an impact-driven non-profit.
September 23, 2025
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Acumen’s $246M ‘De-Risking’ Fund Targets Africa’s Energy Frontier
The Hardest-to-Reach (H2R) Initiative, launched at COP28, is now backed by a powerful coalition.
September 23, 2025
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Yango Ventures’ New $20M Fund Makes Second African Tech Investment
The deal marks the fund’s second major African tech investment this year.
September 22, 2025
Policy & Regulations Forum
Wave Throws $50M into Senegal’s Tax Fire — Can It Quench the Blaze?
Senegal's fintech industry is presenting what it calls a “winning alternative.”
September 22, 2025
Partner Content
The Flywheel Effect: How M-KOPA’s 35,000 Agents Are Powering Its Push to 10M Users
According to its newly released 2025 Impact Report, M-KOPA is on track to reach 10 million customers.
September 22, 2025
Analysis & Opinions
Five Lessons from Goodwell’s Decade-Long Bet on African Fintech
Instead of pure expansion, companies are focusing on making existing networks more productive and resilient.
September 22, 2025
EASTERN AFRICA
Mirova’s $282M Fund Backs Kenya’s Arc Ride in First African EV Deal
The €33bn asset manager's Gigaton Fund has committed up to $10m in debt to the Kenyan e-mobility startup to scale its battery-swapping network.
September 22, 2025
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Tanzania’s MazaoHub Bags $2M to Scale Its AI-Powered ‘Agricultural Clinics’
The Dar es Salaam-based startup is blending AI, soil sensors and on-the-ground agronomists to boost climate resilience for smallholder farmers.
September 19, 2025
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‘Our Operations Remain Unaffected’: Livestock Wealth Plays Down Impact of FSCA Sanctions
"Livestock Wealth (Pty) Ltd has been operational since 2015 without interruption."
January 26, 2026
Partner Content
Japanese Solar Giant WASSHA Acquires Kenyan Mobility Startup Zaribee
Zaribee, formerly known as Unchorlight Kenya, specializes in a rent-to-own model for motorcycle taxi (boda boda) riders.
January 26, 2026
Partner Content
Island Life, Electric Vibes: The 2035 Deadline Sparking an EV Hardware Scramble in Mauritius
While Mauritius is world-renowned for its turquoise waters, its domestic energy goals are increasingly industrial.
January 26, 2026
Policy & Regulations Forum
“Frictionless” No More: Nigeria’s Tax Reforms Turn Delaware Flips into Million-Dollar Liabilities
Under Nigeria’s sweeping Tax Reform Acts, what was once a simple paperwork exercise has become a high-stakes tax event that can trigger massive liabilities before a single dollar of new investment reaches the bank.
January 26, 2026
