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    How Valuable Are ESOP Plans in African Tech? Fawry Offers a Compelling Case

    For every Fawry, there are countless tech startups where ESOPs might turn into little more than unfulfilled promises.

    Just Like in Fintech, New Secondary Funds Are Coming for Africa’s CleanTechs

    Moniepoint's early investors recently secured significant returns through secondary sales during the company's $110M Series C round. Now, investors in Africa's clean technology sector aim to replicate—and even surpass—this success.

    Is Africa Missing Out on Its Own Deeptech Revolution?

    At 81%, foreign-headquartered African deeptech startups have a significant funding advantage over their local counterparts.

    The Ecosystem Within: Nigerian Startups Partner More With Each Other Than With Outsiders

    With partnerships reported by 68% of respondents in the last decade, the ecosystem leans heavily on a “collaborative survival” model.
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    Of the hundreds of funds active during that peak, over 500 “tourist investors” have effectively vanished from the continent’s deal flow.

    The 1M Club: Egyptian Insurtech Nice Deer Finds Rare Scale in a Paper-Heavy Market

    The timing of Nice Deer’s scale-up coincides with a massive regulatory overhaul in Egypt.

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    When Follow-On Funding Vanished: Africa Tech’s Survival Test

    Of the hundreds of funds active during that peak, over 500 “tourist investors” have effectively vanished from the continent’s deal flow.

    The 1M Club: Egyptian Insurtech Nice Deer Finds Rare Scale in a Paper-Heavy Market

    The timing of Nice Deer’s scale-up coincides with a massive regulatory overhaul in Egypt.

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    EU Inc suggests that even Europe now recognises that legal fragmentation quietly kills ambition.

    The “Delete” Button: How a TikTok Contract Cancellation Exposed Africa’s Digital Labour Trap

    The precarity facing African content moderators is intensifying as platforms increasingly turn to artificial intelligence.