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Dutch VC Aqua-Spark Secures $48m for African Blue Economy Fund, Backed by KfW and AgriFI
Ecosystem News
Algerian Super-App Yassir Buys Uno Hypermarkets to Fill the Jumia-Shaped Hole
Ecosystem News
From iROKOtv to Showmax: Is the ‘Netflix of Africa’ Dream Officially Dead?
Ecosystem News
Zeno Raises $25m Series A to Build Africa’s Full-Stack E-Motorcycle Challenger
Ecosystem News
Egypt’s Breadfast Caught in Geopolitical Crossfire After $50m Raise
Ecosystem News
Hlayisani Raises $30M to Tackle South Africa’s Series A Drought
Ecosystem News
African Startups Raise $340m in February as Debt Eclipses Venture Equity
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International Investors Pour Into Morocco One Year After $1.9B Fund Launch
Analysis & Opinions
Beyond ‘Market Access’ Apps: Why Ghana Is the New Frontier for High-Ticket Agritech Deals
Analysis & Opinions
African Startup Funding in Early 2026: More Money, Less Venture
Analysis & Opinions
Ten Key Trends That Shaped African Tech Funding in February
Analysis & Opinions
What Failed African Startups Taught Their Most Active Investors
Analysis & Opinions
Beyond Borders: The African Countries Attracting the Most Capital from Nigerian VC Firms
Analysis & Opinions
Fresh Funds African Tech Firms Can Pitch to in 2026
Analysis & Opinions
Cheap, Collateral-Free, and Non-Dilutive: The ‘Unicorn’ Debt African Founders Are Chasing
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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
Hard Talks
“Harder to Build, but More Defensible”: Enakl Co-Founder on Tackling Morocco’s Commuter Chaos
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
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How Swvl Ditched the Auditors Who Doubted Its Survival
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OneBank: Egypt’s $114m State-Backed Digital Challenger Gets the Final Green Light
Policy & Regulations Forum
The March 11 Ultimatum: Why Half of SA’s E-Hailing Industry Is Racing the Clock
Policy & Regulations Forum
Too Many Cooks? Nigeria’s Plan for a New Fintech Regulator Draws Parallels to the UK’s Northern Rock Crisis
Corporate Governance Forum
Africa’s Top Venture Investor Locked in $6.3m Legal Dispute with Former Employer
Policy & Regulations Forum
Rivals Force Glovo to Shutter Stores Across Morocco
Policy & Regulations Forum
MNT-Halan’s New Moat? Egypt Freezes New Fintech Licences After 182% Growth
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Why Human Rights Matter in the Modern Workplace
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The Riyadh-Cairo Pipeline: Saudi’s VMS Lands in Egypt to Hunt for Seed+ Scaleups
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A New Wave of Tech Firms Is Tapping Nigeria’s Public Debt Market
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Ziidi Trader: Safaricom Captures Half of Kenya’s First Major IPO in 20 Years
Partner Content
From Payments to Credit: Fawry’s Next Act Is Lending
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100 Faces, 160,000 Attacks: Inside the Industrialised Fraud Machines Targeting Africa
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Western Union and Cassava’s Sasai Target South Africa’s $1bn Outbound Remittance Market
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Valu Expands to Jordan With $7m — but Its Fastest Growth Is Coming From Payments, Not Loan
Egypt's largest consumer fintech posted its first full-year results since listing.
March 13, 2026
Updates
African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals
Here’s a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we’re tracking this month.
March 13, 2026
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Policy & Regulations Forum
Ghana’s Digital Lenders Face a Costly Upgrade: $162K License Fees and No More Public Shaming
Lenders are explicitly forbidden from compounding interest on short-term loans.
September 25, 2025
Partner Content
Months After Raising $4.2M, Kenyan Healthtech Ilara Health Announces Major Cuts
“This is a difficult moment for our team, especially in light of recent strides we have made in the business."
September 25, 2025
Ecosystem News
Algebra Ventures Brings on New Investor in Rare Egyptian LP Secondary Deal
Algebra Ventures has backed some of Egypt’s most well-known startups and invests from seed to Series B stages.
September 25, 2025
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TLcom’s Partner Ido Sum Is Out After Closing $150M Africa Fund
Ido Sum’s departure comes after he played a crucial role in raising the firm’s $150m TIDE Africa Fund II, one of the largest early-stage funds for the continent.
September 24, 2025
Corporate Governance Forum
Who Replaces a Founder-CEO? Africa’s Top Startups’ Succession Playbooks Are Taking Shape
After a decade of hustle, a wave of founder-CEOs are handing over the keys. But who will succeed them? We dig deeper.
September 24, 2025
Ecosystem News
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
Partner Content
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
Updates
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
Ecosystem News
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
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Valu Expands to Jordan With $7m — but Its Fastest Growth Is Coming From Payments, Not Loan
Egypt's largest consumer fintech posted its first full-year results since listing.
March 13, 2026
Updates
African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals
Here’s a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we’re tracking this month.
March 13, 2026
Venture Capital & Funding Sources
Dutch VC Aqua-Spark Secures $48m for African Blue Economy Fund, Backed by KfW and AgriFI
The close marks the culmination of a fundraising process that began in 2021.
March 13, 2026
Partner Content
Why Human Rights Matter in the Modern Workplace
By Ashwin Rajah, founder of Mindset Matters
March 13, 2026