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    Egypt’s MoneyFellows Secures $13m to Prove ROSCAs Can Scale Across Borders

    The new investment serves as a strategic bridge toward a larger Series C round planned for 2025.

    Why Bill Gates-Backed i3 Healthtech Accelerator Focused Solely on Pharmacy Startups for Its Smaller 2025 Cohort

    The decision reflects broader trends in African healthtech, where investors are increasingly prioritizing scalable, revenue-generating ventures over early-stage experiments.

    Can Tunisia Become Africa’s GreenTech Hub? EU and Investors Think So

    “The future will be written by those who solve real problems."

    Nigerian Regulators Pounce on Paystack With $155K Fine and Stern Warning Over Product Launch

    Adding fuel to the fire, regulators were reportedly incensed by Paystack’s public launch event, “An Evening with Paystack,” which one CBN insider described as “a slap in the face of the regulator.”
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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.

    Ghost Workers, a BMW X5, and $700K Missing: The Insider Fraud Rocking Francophone Africa’s HR Darling

    Socium, founded in 2021 by Samba Lo and Serigne Seye, provides payroll, recruitment and workforce management software to businesses across 21 Francophone African countries.

    1M Users in 8 Years, 9M in 6: The Smartphone Pivot Driving M-KOPA’s Hypergrowth

    The group now signs up about 10,000 new customers daily.

    Donor-Backed AI Health Tools Proliferate Across Africa, but Sustainability Remains Elusive

    Gates-funded report finds 20 deployed solutions delivering tangible results, yet most rely on short-term grants and lack independently verified cost savings

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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.

    Ghost Workers, a BMW X5, and $700K Missing: The Insider Fraud Rocking Francophone Africa’s HR Darling

    Socium, founded in 2021 by Samba Lo and Serigne Seye, provides payroll, recruitment and workforce management software to businesses across 21 Francophone African countries.

    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.