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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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    South African Fintech Lumepay Raises $6M Pre-Seed to Build Africa’s Institutional Cross-Border Payments Rails

    Cape Town-based start-up, founded by former Ovex executives, secures funding and a $10m liquidity float as it targets B2B corridors across a continent moving away from correspondent banking. But its early growth has coincided with litigation over restraint of trade.
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    MNT-Halan Shifts From Risky SME Lending as ‘Super-App’ Strategy Lifts Third-Quarter Profit

    The group has actively curtailed its exposure to higher-risk SME lending, which previously formed a larger share of its disbursements.

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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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    South African Fintech Lumepay Raises $6M Pre-Seed to Build Africa’s Institutional Cross-Border Payments Rails

    Cape Town-based start-up, founded by former Ovex executives, secures funding and a $10m liquidity float as it targets B2B corridors across a continent moving away from correspondent banking. But its early growth has coincided with litigation over restraint of trade.
    Ecosystem News

    MNT-Halan Shifts From Risky SME Lending as ‘Super-App’ Strategy Lifts Third-Quarter Profit

    The group has actively curtailed its exposure to higher-risk SME lending, which previously formed a larger share of its disbursements.
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    African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals

    Here’s a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we’re tracking this month
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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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