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    Morocco ’s $4.1 Billion Mohammed VI Investment Fund Seeks Fund Managers for Debut Startup Funds

    The Mohammed VI Investment Fund (FM6I) has announced its call for expression of interest...

    DFS Lab is Backing African Startups, Thanks to a Partnership with Stellar Development Foundation

    DFS Lab and the Stellar Development Foundation have initiated the DFS Lab Stellar Africa...

    Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures is Looking Towards Angola, Zambia, DRC, and Tunisia for Its New $60M Fund

    Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures, a pan-African venture capital firm, has recently closed a $60 million...

    Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures’ Latest $60M Fund is Focusing on Growth Stage Startups

    Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) has concluded its first fund, totaling an impressive $60 million,...
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    Is This the End of the Accelerator Era in African Tech?

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    Morocco’s Fintechs Win Access to a Card Payments Market Long Controlled by Banks

    Rabat's regulators confirm the forced break-up of the bank-owned payments monopoly, opening merchant acquiring to a new generation of digital players and slashing transaction fees for small shops.

    Is This the End of the Accelerator Era in African Tech?

    Deal data, donor retreats and a pivot to venture capital and debt are hollowing out the cohort-based accelerator model that once launched a generation of African startups. A new landscape is forming, but it leaves a gap where the first cheque used to be.

    Africa’s Venture-Backed Shutdowns Converge on Two Hotspots in 2026

    Edtech and clean-tech in Kenya, fintech in Nigeria bear the brunt of a prolonged funding drought and investor flight to quality.

    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.