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    The $250M Researcher: Inside the AI Bidding War Where African Talent Is Invisible

    40% of top US AI researchers come from Chinese universities. 0% come from Africa.
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    The Great Return: Stablecoins Win Back Africa’s Fleeing Crypto Startup Investors

    The institutional capital we are seeing is now more than just a fleeting conviction.
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    The Most Active Investors in African Tech Startups: H1 2025

    Who invested the most in African tech startups in H1 2025? An unexpected foreign VC appears to be everywhere in Africa at the moment.
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    The 5 Most Active Seed-Stage Investors in Africa’s Emerging Tech Markets Currently

    The growing investor appetite for markets beyond the traditional hubs is driven by several converging factors.
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    SA Fintech Yoco Snags $100m Private Credit Facility to Scale SME Lending

    As traditional banks hesitate, the TPG-backed payments group turns to global private credit to shrink South Africa's ZAR 350bn SME credit deficit.
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    In 2026, Just One in Ten African Startup Rounds Is Led by Local Money

    Local banks and funds are appearing in more deals, but they still rarely lead equity rounds, according to Launch Base Africa’s deal records.

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    Nine Years After Its Founding, OPay’s IPO Filing Leaves Questions Over Employee Stock Options

    A court judgment proves OPay granted share options in 2020. Its US filing never mentions them, and investors are left to guess whether that’s a gap or a non-issue.
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    M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event

    The African fintech’s gross profit from device sales fell to $57.9m even as revenue rose 45%, exposing a structural shift in the economics of financing smartphones and e-bikes for the continent’s informal earners.

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    SA Fintech Yoco Snags $100m Private Credit Facility to Scale SME Lending

    As traditional banks hesitate, the TPG-backed payments group turns to global private credit to shrink South Africa's ZAR 350bn SME credit deficit.
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    In 2026, Just One in Ten African Startup Rounds Is Led by Local Money

    Local banks and funds are appearing in more deals, but they still rarely lead equity rounds, according to Launch Base Africa’s deal records.
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    Zipline Doubles Down on US Expansion With $1.5bn Raise Ring-Fenced for American Network

    Drone delivery group's valuation nearly triples to $21.5bn as Walmart commits to 300 new sites, but capital is explicitly earmarked for US build-out while African operations rely on separate government-backed financing.
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    Why This Ex-Lantmäteriet Developer Is Building a SaaS Layer for African Property

    James Muricho says he began building a land information system in 2004 and has...

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