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    Malls as Modern Marketplaces: Reinventing Relevance in the Digital Age

    By Kelly Belman, General Manager, Clearwater Mall, Roodepoort, South Africa.

    Inside the Most Powerful VC Syndicates Fueling African Tech in 2025

    For founders, this means understanding not just which fund to pitch, but which pairings are likely to invest together.

    2025 Fundraising Checklist for Nigerian Startups: The Metrics VCs Actually Care About Now

    An exclusive Launch Base Africa analysis of Nigeria's 2025 funding rounds so far reveals the unspoken rules of investor targeting in 2025.

    The Investors Most Likely to Join Egypt’s Next Big Startup Rounds in 2025

    Here are the investors that have already funded Egyptian startups in 2025, and who are likely to re-invest before the year is out.
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    The gap is not a rounding error. It maps directly onto the experience of founders who, after warm introductions and investor meetings

    From Kitchens to Cockpits: The Egyptian Startup Turning Cooking Oil Into a 25x Investor Return

    Delta Oil operates at the intersection of waste management and energy production.

    “No Shortcuts Through the Data”: How Intron is Building African Voice Infrastructure from Scratch

    "The assumption we had to kill earliest was that the technical problem was the hardest one. It is not."

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    The era of the “AI-enabled” consumer app in Africa is quietly being dismantled in favor of something much less flashy: digital plumbing.

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    The gap is not a rounding error. It maps directly onto the experience of founders who, after warm introductions and investor meetings

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    Your business is always talking to you. Are you listening? By Thuto Motsie CA(SA), CEO of Thamani