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Swedfund Injects $20M Into AfricaGoGreen to Plug Climate Debt Gap
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Ventures Platform Secures $84M for Second African Tech Fund in Test of Institutional Appetite
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AFC Tests Nigerian Pensions’ Appetite with $750M Climate Fund
Ecosystem News
AgDevCo Ventures Raises $49M in First Close for East African Agri-SME Fund
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Telegram Ads, Money Mules and $16bn: The Shadow Corridors Linking China to Africa
Ecosystem News
Jumia Secures $50m IFC-Backed Emergency Raise After Total Equity Crashes 98%
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From Lagos Ride-Hailing to Global Robotaxis: Moove Raises $250M at $2.1B Valuation
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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
Analysis & Opinions
From Wages to Fraud to Deliveries: The Pattern Behind South Africa’s Recent Startup Funding
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Why Africa’s Current Capital Concentration at the Top Isn’t a Temporary Lag
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Africa’s Top Equity Investors in Tech in H1 2026
Analysis & Opinions
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
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Is This the End of the Accelerator Era in African Tech?
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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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How Moving Goalposts Are Freezing Francophone West Africa’s Fintech Scene
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School Fees, Secret Loans, and a CEO Ban: Inside Egypt’s Wildest Fintech Scandal
Corporate Governance Forum
Long Detection Lag: The Thread Running Through Senegal’s Fintech Heists
Policy & Regulations Forum
Once Bitten, Twice Global: Africa’s Stablecoin Darlings Build Their Escape Hatches
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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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Jumia Files to Let Four Investors Sell $15m of Shares Two Weeks After Rescue Raise
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ANKA Splits B2B and Consumer Arms as New Owner Attempts Post-Insolvency Comeback
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Swvl Lands Sawiris Family Backing in $13M Push for U.S. Expansion
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From Quebec to Africa: The Obscure Telecom Making a High-Stakes Nasdaq Debut
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Five35 Widens Female-Focused Bets as African Funding for Female Founders Dries Up
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From Matchmaker to Fund Manager: Why Exits MENA Is Buying Its Way Into Direct Investment
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Inside dLocal’s $23.7M AZA Finance Deal: $22.8M of Customers, IP and Goodwill
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Premium Brands Don’t Have a Quality Problem. They Have a Distinction Problem.
Nomaswazi Phumo, Head of Strategy of Leagas Delaney South Africa, writes from Cape Town, South Africa
August 28, 2026
Ecosystem News
Swedfund Injects $20M Into AfricaGoGreen to Plug Climate Debt Gap
The transaction is consistent with Swedfund’s demonstrated strategic priority.
August 28, 2026
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Industry
Wave Energy Gets a Test Run in South Africa as Swedish Startup Eyes Africa’s Coastline
But can waves compete with the continent's solar obsession?
July 24, 2025
Ecosystem News
From Poor Pay to Truncated Maps: Glovo’s Moroccan Headaches Mount as Regulator Slams Fine
Protesters allege that the Glovo app recently displayed a map of Morocco without its southern regions.
July 24, 2025
Policy & Regulations Forum
Algeria’s Startup Playbook Puts Sub-Saharan Policies to Shame
Startup laws may be the fashion across African capitals, but North Africa appears to be one of the few regions actually wearing them well.
July 24, 2025
Policy & Regulations Forum
Egypt’s New Fintech Sandbox Comes With Limitations — And Hackathons
The lab will also offer additional services beyond sandbox testing,
July 23, 2025
Analysis & Opinions
Looking for VC in Ghana in 2025? Accra’s Not Where the Money Is
This year so far, most Ghanaian startups raised from a single institutional backer.
July 23, 2025
Industry
Lagos, a Swarm of Data Centers: Nigeria’s First Digital Free Zone — Itana — Joins Infrastructure Race
“Africa will not win in the AI age by consuming what the rest of the world builds.”
July 23, 2025
Updates
Kenya’s Burn Secures $5M from African Development Bank to Scale Electric Cooking Across East and Southern Africa
AfDB backs carbon-financed clean cooking initiative targeting low-income households in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
July 22, 2025
Updates
One Firm Pulled in $6M in a Year from Fractional Real Estate — Is This Egypt’s Next Fintech Frontier?
Welcome to the next frontier of real estate investing in Egypt: fractional ownership.
July 22, 2025
Updates
FAB-Backed Lime Launches in Egypt with $9.4M to Disrupt School Financing
Lime Consumer Finance, a newly launched fintech platform focused on education financing, has secured a substantial $9.4 million in initial funding.
July 22, 2025
Ecosystem News
Flend Raises $3m in Seed Round to Scale Digital SME Finance Across Egypt
The Cairo-based fintech startup plans to embed lending into Egypt's real economy through a fully regulated, tech-first platform.
July 22, 2025
Industry
Impact Investor I&P Scouts for New Wave of Climate Tech Across West Africa
Impact investor Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) is actively searching for the next generation of climate tech startups in Francophone West Africa.
July 22, 2025
Corporate Governance Forum
An ‘Abuse of Process’: The Inside Story of How 54 Collective Lost Its $106M Fund
The provisional liquidation process will continue, with a final court hearing scheduled for 11 August 2025.
July 22, 2025
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Premium Brands Don’t Have a Quality Problem. They Have a Distinction Problem.
Nomaswazi Phumo, Head of Strategy of Leagas Delaney South Africa, writes from Cape Town, South Africa
August 28, 2026
Ecosystem News
Swedfund Injects $20M Into AfricaGoGreen to Plug Climate Debt Gap
The transaction is consistent with Swedfund’s demonstrated strategic priority.
August 28, 2026
Policy & Regulations Forum
How Moving Goalposts Are Freezing Francophone West Africa’s Fintech Scene
For investors considering Francophone West Africa’s fintech sector, the past eighteen months have been ‘a study in uncertainty’.
August 28, 2026
Analysis & Opinions
Five Countries, Half a Million Dollars: Inside Nigeria’s New Startup Funding Math
Nigerian founders are not failing to raise capital so much as raising it through instruments that didn't used to be the plan.
August 28, 2026
