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    Africa’s 100 Most Active Tech Startup Investors — Ranked by Deal Activity (2025)

    Local and pan-African funds such as Digital Africa and Launch Africa Ventures continue to drive volume at the earliest stages, absorbing the risk of experimentation and market discovery.

    Helios Investment Partners Reaches $250m Second Close for African Climate Fund

    The funding gap for African climate initiatives is vast: currently, public finance covers only...

    Inside Lesaka’s Struggle to Make African Fintech Consolidation Pay

    The Johannesburg payments company has spent $80m acquiring competitors. Six months of data show why buying scale in African fintech doesn't guarantee profitability.

    ‘This Team Gave Everything’: Natalie Dowsett’s 11th-Hour Plea to Save OX Delivers

    The Warwickshire-based maker of "flat-pack" electric trucks for Africa is facing liquidation unless a rescue deal is found by the weekend. It is a stark reversal for a company that recently touted a $163m expansion deal.
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    Mauritius Tightens Its Grip on Africa’s Startup Cap Tables

    Funds domiciled on the island have made a string of investments this year. The money is rarely Mauritian - and that is the point.

    Why Your Cheapest Hire Can Be the Most Costly

    Thuto Motsie CEO of Thamani, writes from Gauteng, 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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    Mauritius Tightens Its Grip on Africa’s Startup Cap Tables

    Funds domiciled on the island have made a string of investments this year. The money is rarely Mauritian - and that is the point.

    Why Your Cheapest Hire Can Be the Most Costly

    Thuto Motsie CEO of Thamani, writes from Gauteng, South Africa

    Kenafric Tests the Corporate VC Playbook for African Consumer Startups with $10M Fund

    Kenafric Group, the Kenyan consumer goods manufacturer whose brands range from chewing gum to...

    BII Backs Okra Solar with $7m Debt Facility to Scale Mesh-Grids in Nigeria

    British development finance institution bets that a lighter, decentralised alternative to mini-grids can help close one of the world's largest electricity access gaps - but the model's commercial viability still hinges on procurement and policy execution.