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    Inside the 2025 Playbook of Africa’s Most Active Tech Investors

    While total disclosed funding reached$3.1 billion — excluding grants — the distribution revealed something more significant than the headline number.

    Checkbooks and Caution: The Tentative Reset of African Tech Startups’ Missing Investors

    Several funds that once did 5–10 African deals annually are now doing 1–3, concentrating ownership and support.

    Fragile but Forming: The Reality of Francophone Africa’s Angel Investing Landscape in 2025

    The 2025 data reveals a notable gap: the lack of disclosed investments from successful local entrepreneurs.

    The $2bn Power Play: Why Egypt Is Suddenly Africa’s Hottest Battery Market

    Development finance institutions and private capital are pouring billions into solar-plus-storage projects...
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    Africa to LatAm: Busy Mobility Fintech Route Gets a Yango Mafia Boost

    Fuelled by informal workforces and bank credit gaps, vehicle-financing platforms are building cross-continental empires.

    Inside dLocal’s $23.7M AZA Finance Deal: $22.8M of Customers, IP and Goodwill

    The Nasdaq-listed payments group settled its restructured Africa transaction without paying cash.

    SA Repeat Founders Process Over $60m in Six Months With Stablecoin Safari Startup

    Cape Town-based start-up uses stablecoins and a merchant-of-record model to undercut transaction fees that have long burdened African tourism businesses.

    From an Angry Post to a $50m Ribbon-Cutting: The Land Battle Behind an Egyptian Deeptech Scaleup’s $50m Factory

    Sixteen months later, on a hot July day in 2026, Egypt's finance minister, Ahmed Kouchouk, returned to a company whose public frustration had once laid bare the country's industrial bureaucracy.

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    Africa to LatAm: Busy Mobility Fintech Route Gets a Yango Mafia Boost

    Fuelled by informal workforces and bank credit gaps, vehicle-financing platforms are building cross-continental empires.

    Inside dLocal’s $23.7M AZA Finance Deal: $22.8M of Customers, IP and Goodwill

    The Nasdaq-listed payments group settled its restructured Africa transaction without paying cash.

    Telegram Ads, Money Mules and $16bn: The Shadow Corridors Linking China to Africa

    Chinese-language money laundering networks (CMLNs) have begun openly marketing their financial services to operators in five sub-Saharan African countries, according to latest reports.

    Long Detection Lag: The Thread Running Through Senegal’s Fintech Heists

    Several insider-fraud cases in twelve months share less to do with the amounts stolen than with how long nobody noticed.