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    Egypt’s Qardy Secures Seven-Figure Pre-Seed Funding to Boost SME Lending in Egypt

    Since its soft launch in late 2022, Qardy has rapidly gained traction, onboarding over 1,000 corporate clients and facilitating loan transactions worth more than $12 million.

    Maroc Numeric Fund II Hit Hard: Fintech Startup Yallah Xash Closes Doors

    Previous investments that faltered include NetPeas, an IT services company that failed to deliver on its SaaS security solutions; Souk Affaires.ma...

    Egyptian AI Startup Synapse Analytics Secures $2M Led by Silicon Badia and Hub 71

    The startup specializes in providing advanced AI software designed to enhance financial decision-making processes, including credit scoring, cross-selling, dynamic pricing, and electronic Know Your Customer/Business (eKYC/eKYB) procedures.

    MNT Halan Eyes Egyptian Stock Exchange Listing, Targets $1 Billion Financing Portfolio

    The company aims to bolster its financing portfolio to a substantial $1 billion by the year’s end.
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    New CEO, $110M Mandate: responsAbility’s Plan to Mainstream Emerging-Market Climate Finance

    responsAbility is perhaps best known in impact-investing circles for its early backing of Greenlight Planet, the off-grid solar company that rebranded as Sun King.

    Pitch Decks vs. Prospectuses: The Messy Courtship of Africa’s Tech Scene and Old-Money Bourses

    From Windhoek to Lagos, stock exchanges across the continent are wooing startups with structured pipelines, listing incentives, and MOU ceremonies. The startups are mostly politely non-committal.

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    New CEO, $110M Mandate: responsAbility’s Plan to Mainstream Emerging-Market Climate Finance

    responsAbility is perhaps best known in impact-investing circles for its early backing of Greenlight Planet, the off-grid solar company that rebranded as Sun King.

    Pitch Decks vs. Prospectuses: The Messy Courtship of Africa’s Tech Scene and Old-Money Bourses

    From Windhoek to Lagos, stock exchanges across the continent are wooing startups with structured pipelines, listing incentives, and MOU ceremonies. The startups are mostly politely non-committal.

    Kenya’s Carbon-Capture Startups Land a Share of Tencent’s $30M Climate Fund

    The presence of three Kenya-based winners across different CDR approaches in the same programme points to something beyond individual company success.

    Inside the Room: The Five-Year Negotiation That Got Ghanaian Pensions to Back Venture Capital

    A new fund-of-funds has done something that has never been done before in Ghana — persuaded pension trustees to allocate to private equity and debt vehicles. The journey took half a decade...