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    $10M Daraja Impact Initiative Backs Tanzanian Health-Tech Dawa Mkononi in Inaugural Funding

    In a move towards fostering innovation and social impact in Tanzania, SEAF, a prominent...

    Kenyan Carbon Finance Startup Burn Secures $12M to Combat Africa’s Clean Cooking Deficit

    Burn, a Nairobi-based startup, is leveraging carbon finance to address Africa’s pressing issue of...

    DFC Supports Kenya’s Pezesha with $500K Grant Following Settlement in Liquidation Dispute

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    BasiGo Secures $3 Million Funding from CFAO Group to Expand Green Transport in Africa

    BasiGo, the pioneering electric bus company operating in Kenya and Rwanda, has reached a...
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    Over $500M Lost in Two Years: Eight Graphs That Map the Blind Spots Behind Recent African Startup Collapses

    The period between early 2024 and mid-2026 has been the most unforgiving in the short history of African venture-backed entrepreneurship.

    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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