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    Egyptian Fintech Cassbana ‘Restarting’ Operations After a Tumultuous Pause

    The Egyptian fintech is attempting a restart after two co-founders left.

    Contrarian VC P1 Ventures Raises $50m to Back Next-Gen African Startups

    This announcement follows a year of significant momentum for P1, highlighted by its largest investment to date: a co-investment alongside Accel in Nuitee, a Moroccan AI-powered hotel booking platform, which raised a $48m Series A round.

    Moroccan AI Spin-off ToumAI Secures $1 Million in Pre-Seed Funding

    Yousef Rahmani, who holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Oxford, co-founded ToumAI Analytics in 2020.

    Trump’s Foreign Policy Shift Shutters Prosper Africa, a Key Deal Maker for African Startups. What’s Next?

    Prosper Africa partnered with initiatives like Future Africa’s Accelerate Africa (A2) program, which prepares early-stage African founders for global scaling.
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    Asset-Backed Debt and DFI Muscle Drive African Startup Funding in December

    With traditional international VC participation appearing more selective, other players are filling the gap.

    What Q4 Investor Behaviour Hints at for African Founders Raising Capital in 2026

    The most striking trend of Q4 2025 is the complexity of the deal structures.

    Dot Com Zambia’s IPO Caps a Lively Year for African Tech Listings

    The massive oversubscription in Morocco (Cash Plus) and the solid retail turnout in Zambia (DCZ) debunk the myth that African retail investors won’t buy tech.

    From Idea to Investable: The ‘Product-First’ Playbook Behind Africa’s ‘Toughest’ Fund

    With an acceptance rate of just 0.1%, the fund is deliberately designed to filter aggressively for ideas that can survive real-world scrutiny before capital ever becomes the differentiator.

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    Asset-Backed Debt and DFI Muscle Drive African Startup Funding in December

    With traditional international VC participation appearing more selective, other players are filling the gap.

    What Q4 Investor Behaviour Hints at for African Founders Raising Capital in 2026

    The most striking trend of Q4 2025 is the complexity of the deal structures.

    Transparency vs. The Silent Exit: How African Startups Handled Crisis in 2025 — and What We Learned

    An analysis of how African tech companies navigated failure, fraud, and funding shortfalls - and what Launch Base Africa learned from tracking their crises

    Nigeria’s Most Anticipated Tech IPO Hits Pause After Lead Investor Pushback

    The halt to Tizeti's NGX listing exposes how fragile Nigeria's domestic exit route remains - and why founders are still caught between dollar venture capital and a shallow local market.