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    13 Charts From a Decade of African Exits — And the Uncomfortable Takeaway

    A review of hundreds of acquisitions and listings across Africa's startup ecosystem reveals a market bifurcating.
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    The $350m Proof: Inside South Africa’s Rising Cult of the Bootstrapped Exit

    Beyond the obvious — all South African, all bootstrapped — deeper patterns emerge.
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    The ‘Early-Stage Hollow’: Is the Rise of Successor Funds Leaving African Seed Founders Behind?

    This matters because the early-stage hollow is cumulative.
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    Morocco’s Hanout Wars: Three Startups, $10m, and One Corner Shop

    In Morocco, three startups are all targeting the same 126,000 independent retailers. Backed by Morocco's largest bank, its royal family holding company, and a South African insurer, the race is now about who locks in the merchant first.
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    Why Data Matters as Much as Capital in African Agricultural Finance

    Only 1% of bank lending goes to the agricultural sector in Africa —Desmond Koney, CEO of Complete Farmer, writes from Accra, Ghana.

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    In an ecosystem often criticised for importing foreign business models, this wave of localised AI, built on proprietary, hard-to-replicate datasets, represents a native competitive advantage.

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    South Africa’s Fintechs Face a Wave of New Data and Open Finance Rules — Here’s the Timeline

    Fintechs that treat this period as worth the resourcing cost are, at minimum, better positioned to anticipate the eventual rules than those that wait for a published standard to react to.
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    Why Data Matters as Much as Capital in African Agricultural Finance

    Only 1% of bank lending goes to the agricultural sector in Africa —Desmond Koney, CEO of Complete Farmer, writes from Accra, Ghana.
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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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