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    The Transatlantic Bet: Why Moroccan VCs Love Emigrant Founders

    Morocco’s investor class is no longer content with purely local bets.

    Venture Building Could Save Startups As Investors Hit Funding Brakes

    The days of funding future value without clear fundamentals are coming to an end.

    Africa’s Fintech Boom Has Limits: Mukuru’s Latest Exit from Eswatini Shows Why

    As the June 2025 deadline approaches, Mukuru’s customers in Eswatini will need to find alternatives.

    Can Venture Studios Drive Africa’s Deep Tech Revolution? AfDB Is Betting $300K+ Per Startup to Find Out

    The move comes as African nations seek to transition from consumer-driven digital innovation to science-based, IP-intensive ventures capable of solving structural challenges in energy, healthcare, agriculture, and climate resilience.
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    From Disruptors to Form-Fillers: Egypt’s Fintechs Face a New Agent Banking Reality

    Egypt's central bank has written a rulebook for banking agents. It lets banks send identity verification, account applications and card deliveries to places they have no branches. On a close reading, it allows little else.

    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa

    Nine Years After Its Founding, OPay’s IPO Filing Leaves Questions Over Employee Stock Options

    A court judgment proves OPay granted share options in 2020. Its US filing never mentions them, and investors are left to guess whether that’s a gap or a non-issue.

    M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event

    The African fintech’s gross profit from device sales fell to $57.9m even as revenue rose 45%, exposing a structural shift in the economics of financing smartphones and e-bikes for the continent’s informal earners.

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    From Disruptors to Form-Fillers: Egypt’s Fintechs Face a New Agent Banking Reality

    Egypt's central bank has written a rulebook for banking agents. It lets banks send identity verification, account applications and card deliveries to places they have no branches. On a close reading, it allows little else.

    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa

    Journify Raises $12M Series A to Take Ad Signal Infrastructure into US and Europe

    The startup, which has grown revenue fivefold, wants to fix the 'incomplete picture' that ad algorithms receive as privacy restrictions erode traditional tracking

    Enza Raises $6mn as Investors Bet on Africa’s Payments Plumbing

    Egyptian payments infrastructure provider secures Seed+ round led by 4DX Ventures, with British International Investment joining as new backer