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Ripple Buys Into Flutterwave to Open New Front in African Stablecoin Wars
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Remittance Fintechs Brace for Longer Delays and Higher Fees Across Central Africa
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DBSA Doubles Down on EV Charging With Backing for Zimi
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From African Mines to AI Data Labs: Soros-Backed Fund Targets Supply Chain Blind Spots
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Spiro Lands $215M to Expand Its Battery-Swapping Network for Africa’s Motorcycle Taxis
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Agri-Fintech Startup Livestock Wealth Placed Under Liquidation After Failed Rescue Bid
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Egypt’s Beltone Reaps 271% Venture Capital Revenue Jump as Bosta Exit Validates Strategy
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The Short, Unfinished Life of PayPal’s $100 Million Emerging Markets Fund
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Nigeria’s Startup Graveyard Has Become a Bargain Bin for Buyers
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The 90% Collapse: How US Tech and Infrastructure Debt Turned African AI Into a Rounding Error
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Charging Depots, Battery Swaps and Fleet Finance: The 5 Models Winning African EV Capital
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Local VCs Are Quietly Retreating From African Startup Cap Tables
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The Elite Funnel: Why African Tech’s New Financing Mix Signals a Hollowing of the Core
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Geographic Borders Blur as Africa-Focused Funds Chase Global Infrastructure
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Africa’s New VC Funds Missing from Early 2026 Dealmaking
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‘Timing Is Critical’: How a Pandemic Almost Killed Weego and Accidentally Built Its B2B Engine
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From Profitability to $10M ARR: How Prembly Cracked Africa’s Identity Infrastructure
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‘Stay in It’: How Over 200 Interviews and a LinkedIn Post Led to a $2.35M Seed Round for Orca
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‘Don’t Wait for a Cash Crunch’: The $70M Debt Playbook from Lula’s Trevor Gosling
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“Harder to Build, but More Defensible”: Enakl Co-Founder on Tackling Morocco’s Commuter Chaos
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‘Valuations Still Far Too High’: Lexi Novitske on Investing a $205m Africa Tech Fund Amid Market Turbulence
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“Don’t Build for Hypothetical Problems”: What Immobazyme’s Founders Learned While Dragging University IP Into the Marketplace
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Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires — or Divest
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The Tennis Court Rule: Nigeria’s Fintechs Learn to Live on a 70-Metre Leash
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The Kwik Shuffle: How a French Share Issue Put an African Tech Asset Beyond a European Court’s Reach
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The Airtime Credit War: Nigeria Tangles with an Elusive FinTech Giant
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Ghana’s Draft ICT Law Could Make Foreign-Backed Startups Illegal
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Africa’s Electric Mobility Pioneers Turn to Operators in Race for Profitability
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NewTrails Capital, Backed by Africa’s Leading Smartphone Manufacturer, Invests $55M in EV Startup Spiro
The Chinese growth-stage fund - whose backers include Transsion Holdings, the Shenzhen company that dominates Africa's mobile phone market ...
June 22, 2026
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The Short, Unfinished Life of PayPal’s $100 Million Emerging Markets Fund
Emerging market fintech funding has already cooled from its 2021–2022 peaks.
June 22, 2026
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NewTrails Capital, Backed by Africa’s Leading Smartphone Manufacturer, Invests $55M in EV Startup Spiro
The Chinese growth-stage fund - whose backers include Transsion Holdings, the Shenzhen company that dominates Africa's mobile phone market ...
June 22, 2026
Analysis & Opinions
The Short, Unfinished Life of PayPal’s $100 Million Emerging Markets Fund
Emerging market fintech funding has already cooled from its 2021–2022 peaks.
June 22, 2026
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The VC Waiting Game: Why a 7% Distribution Is a Major Win for Early-Stage African Funds
The pan-African seed fund returns $2.5m to LPs - a rare liquidity signal in a market still waiting for its post-boom reckoning.
June 19, 2026
Analysis & Opinions
Nigeria’s Startup Graveyard Has Become a Bargain Bin for Buyers
With fewer, larger funds calling the shots, patience for fragmented markets has evaporated.
June 19, 2026
