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    The Super-Niche Shift: A Taxonomy of 2025’s Venture-Backed B2B Startups in Africa

    Based on an analysis of 2025 funding data, here is a taxonomy of the most active B2B categories defining the current investment cycle.

    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.

    Exit Pressure: Why Africa’s Decade-Old Founder Class is Stepping Aside at Scaleups

    Yoco's Katlego Maphai is the latest long-serving founder to hand over the reins, signaling a new phase of maturity for the continent's top tech companies.
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    Kenya’s Carbon-Capture Startups Land a Share of Tencent’s $30M Climate Fund

    The presence of three Kenya-based winners across different CDR approaches in the same programme points to something beyond individual company success.

    Inside the Room: The Five-Year Negotiation That Got Ghanaian Pensions to Back Venture Capital

    A new fund-of-funds has done something that has never been done before in Ghana — persuaded pension trustees to allocate to private equity and debt vehicles. The journey took half a decade...

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    Kenya’s Carbon-Capture Startups Land a Share of Tencent’s $30M Climate Fund

    The presence of three Kenya-based winners across different CDR approaches in the same programme points to something beyond individual company success.

    Inside the Room: The Five-Year Negotiation That Got Ghanaian Pensions to Back Venture Capital

    A new fund-of-funds has done something that has never been done before in Ghana — persuaded pension trustees to allocate to private equity and debt vehicles. The journey took half a decade...

    West African Payments Reform Gets Three-Month Reprieve for Fintech Operators

    The move offers a short reprieve in what has become a high-stakes infrastructure struggle between a determined regulator and an industry whose business models are built on proprietary rails.

    D.light Takes PAYGo Solar From Impact Funds to the London Stock Exchange

    A $50 million green bond listing marks the first time off-grid solar receivables from Africa have entered the public bond markets - and signals a structural shift in how energy access gets financed.