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    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.

    A Lonely Path: More African Founders Turn to Family Over Colleagues for Mental Wellbeing

    As pressures mount in Africa's nascent startup scene, more founders turn to familiar sources for support - and it's rarely their investors or even their colleagues.
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    Africa to LatAm: Busy Mobility Fintech Route Gets a Yango Mafia Boost

    Fuelled by informal workforces and bank credit gaps, vehicle-financing platforms are building cross-continental empires.

    Inside dLocal’s $23.7M AZA Finance Deal: $22.8M of Customers, IP and Goodwill

    The Nasdaq-listed payments group settled its restructured Africa transaction without paying cash.

    SA Repeat Founders Process Over $60m in Six Months With Stablecoin Safari Startup

    Cape Town-based start-up uses stablecoins and a merchant-of-record model to undercut transaction fees that have long burdened African tourism businesses.

    From an Angry Post to a $50m Ribbon-Cutting: The Land Battle Behind an Egyptian Deeptech Scaleup’s $50m Factory

    Sixteen months later, on a hot July day in 2026, Egypt's finance minister, Ahmed Kouchouk, returned to a company whose public frustration had once laid bare the country's industrial bureaucracy.

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    Africa to LatAm: Busy Mobility Fintech Route Gets a Yango Mafia Boost

    Fuelled by informal workforces and bank credit gaps, vehicle-financing platforms are building cross-continental empires.

    Inside dLocal’s $23.7M AZA Finance Deal: $22.8M of Customers, IP and Goodwill

    The Nasdaq-listed payments group settled its restructured Africa transaction without paying cash.

    Long Detection Lag: The Thread Running Through Senegal’s Fintech Heists

    Several insider-fraud cases in twelve months share less to do with the amounts stolen than with how long nobody noticed.

    Egypt’s Licence Freeze Spawns $95m Tamweely Deal

    Egyptian digital payments and fintech group e-Finance for Digital and Financial Investments has agreed...