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Catalyst Fund Raises $30 Million in Second Close for African Climate Adaptation Vehicle
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Local Investors Stage Partial Comeback in African Tech After Sharp First-Half Retreat
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Inside the Room: The Five-Year Negotiation That Got Ghanaian Pensions to Back Venture Capital
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Revolut’s Morocco Ambitions Hit a Wall as Regulator Puts Priorities Elsewhere
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NewTrails Capital, Backed by Africa’s Leading Smartphone Manufacturer, Invests $55M in EV Startup Spiro
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Ripple Buys Into Flutterwave to Open New Front in African Stablecoin Wars
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Remittance Fintechs Brace for Longer Delays and Higher Fees Across Central Africa
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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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While Others Fled, This Nigerian Corporate VC Kept Writing Cheques
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The Short, Unfinished Life of PayPal’s $100 Million Emerging Markets Fund
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Nigeria’s Startup Graveyard Has Become a Bargain Bin for Buyers
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The 90% Collapse: How US Tech and Infrastructure Debt Turned African AI Into a Rounding Error
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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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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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West African Payments Reform Gets Three-Month Reprieve for Fintech Operators
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A Reprieve for Kenya’s Electric Vehicles. But for How Long?
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Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires — or Divest
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Ghana Bans Local Financial Institutions From Backing Crypto-Linked Dollar Accounts
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The Tennis Court Rule: Nigeria’s Fintechs Learn to Live on a 70-Metre Leash
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Africa’s Electric Mobility Pioneers Turn to Operators in Race for Profitability
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Bridgement Lands $20.3m as South Africa’s Banks Double Down on AI Lending
South African fintech secures backing from two of the country's largest lenders to tackle a chronic funding gap for small businesses.
July 7, 2026
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Handymesh founders deploy AI, escrow and verifiable work histories to bring structure to Africa’s vast informal home services sector
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The 1M Club: Egyptian Insurtech Nice Deer Finds Rare Scale in a Paper-Heavy Market
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January 21, 2026
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The “Delete” Button: How a TikTok Contract Cancellation Exposed Africa’s Digital Labour Trap
The precarity facing African content moderators is intensifying as platforms increasingly turn to artificial intelligence.
January 20, 2026
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The Rise of the Balance Sheet: African Banks Muscle into Venture Debt
As venture capital equity markets cooled in 2025, Africa’s largest commercial banks stepped into the gap.
January 20, 2026
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From Payments to Prompt Engineering: Inside TSG Labs, Paystack’s New AI-Focused Incubator
Paystack’s footprint now covers markets representing approximately 46% of Africa’s GDP.
January 20, 2026
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A New Billion-Dollar Wave of Capital Targets African Climate Tech
Climate financing continues to attract interests global investors.
January 20, 2026
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The Next Frontier: Why Israeli Tech Giant Commit Just Bought an African Talent Scout
The acquisition is a validation of the “talent is universal, opportunity is not” thesis that has gained traction across the global south.
January 19, 2026
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Ex-Mubadala and Goldman Bankers Break Stealth With $1m to Digitise the Turnstile
“We invested in Knot because the team is solving a complex global problem with a new solution.”
January 19, 2026
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Bootstrapped in Ouagadougou: How Bellunic’s Founder Is Digitising Burkina Faso’s Informal Markets
Yacouba Traore is the first to admit that building a startup in Burkina Faso...
January 19, 2026
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Algeria’s ‘Forced Marriage’: Why Big Business is Suddenly Swiping Right on Startups
Algeria’s new innovation tax puts startups on corporate balance sheets.
January 19, 2026
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The February Fade: When Good Intentions Lose Momentum
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January 19, 2026
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ValU Secures $63.5m Short-Term Financing from Egypt’s Biggest Bank
The company has benefited from Egypt’s regulatory framework for consumer finance, which has brought BNPL-style products under formal oversight.
January 16, 2026
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Davos 2026: AI Takes Centre Stage as Technology Shapes Global Power
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Koko Networks Puts Ethanol Platform on the Block in $15m Asset Sale
The sale is being targeted at corporate and institutional participants with demonstrated financial capacity to conclude a transaction exceeding $15m.
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