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    Tracking Google’s AI Interests in Africa: A Strategy of Venture, Grants, and Skilling

    The tech giant’s latest moves—spanning venture funding, academic grants, and digital upskilling—signal a long-term bet on Africa’s potential to drive AI innovation tailored to local challenges.
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    Looking for VC in Ghana in 2025? Accra’s Not Where the Money Is

    This year so far, most Ghanaian startups raised from a single institutional backer.
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    Demo Day, Then Decay: The Reality of Africa’s Makeshift Startup Accelerators

    There’s also a chronic geographic imbalance. Cities like Lusaka, Douala, and Bamako appear only sporadically on the accelerator map, despite emerging tech scenes. And of the few programs based in Somalia, Cameroon, or Tanzania, nearly all are inactive.
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    Bizao Post-Mortem: What Went Wrong at Africa’s B2B Payments Infrastructure Startup?

    Following its entry into receivership, a Paris court opened a bidding process in April 2025 to attract acquirers. None emerged.
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    From Disruptors to Form-Fillers: Egypt’s Fintechs Face a New Agent Banking Reality

    Egypt's central bank has written a rulebook for banking agents. It lets banks send identity verification, account applications and card deliveries to places they have no branches. On a close reading, it allows little else.
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    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa

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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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    From Disruptors to Form-Fillers: Egypt’s Fintechs Face a New Agent Banking Reality

    Egypt's central bank has written a rulebook for banking agents. It lets banks send identity verification, account applications and card deliveries to places they have no branches. On a close reading, it allows little else.
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    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa
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    Journify Raises $12M Series A to Take Ad Signal Infrastructure into US and Europe

    The startup, which has grown revenue fivefold, wants to fix the 'incomplete picture' that ad algorithms receive as privacy restrictions erode traditional tracking
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    Enza Raises $6mn as Investors Bet on Africa’s Payments Plumbing

    Egyptian payments infrastructure provider secures Seed+ round led by 4DX Ventures, with British International Investment joining as new backer

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