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The Battle for Driver Financing: Gozem’s $24.5M Debt Raise Raises the Stakes for Regional Rivals
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Strait of Hormuz Shock: How Regional Turmoil Accelerated Egypt’s High-Voltage Ambitions
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Former Molten Ventures CEO Moves Into Southern African Secondaries With New £50m Fund
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South African Medtech AI Diagnostics Lands $5m to Tackle the TB Epidemic With AI Stethoscopes
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Standard Bank Leads $330m Refinancing for JSE-Listed AI Fintech Optasia
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Hassanein Hiridjee’s Outsized Stake Reshapes Power at Jumia Technologies
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Who Funds the Outliers? US Investors Are Bankrolling Nigeria’s Most Experimental Deals
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Only One in Eight African Tech Investors Wrote Repeat Cheques Last Year. Here’s Why It Matters
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13 Charts From a Decade of African Exits — And the Uncomfortable Takeaway
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The $350m Proof: Inside South Africa’s Rising Cult of the Bootstrapped Exit
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The ‘Early-Stage Hollow’: Is the Rise of Successor Funds Leaving African Seed Founders Behind?
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Morocco’s Hanout Wars: Three Startups, $10m, and One Corner Shop
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Africa’s Most Active Startup Investors in Q1 2026 — and Where They Put Their Money
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The Five Countries Capturing 90% of Africa’s AI Funding
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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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‘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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‘Don’t Wait to Be Perfect’: How Selling Imperfect Produce Helped Farm to Feed Land a $1.5M Seed Round
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South Africa’s AI Framework Fails the Ultimate Turing Test
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More Cards, More Cash: The Contradiction at the Heart of Central African Fintech
Across six countries sharing a central bank and a currency, a largely unknown interoperability platform is accumulating evidence...
April 29, 2026
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Fawry Taps the EBRD to Supercharge Its Lending Arm
Fawry, Egypt’s largest electronic payments network, is accelerating its push into direct lending, securing...
April 29, 2026
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More Cards, More Cash: The Contradiction at the Heart of Central African Fintech
Across six countries sharing a central bank and a currency, a largely unknown interoperability platform is accumulating evidence...
April 29, 2026
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Fawry Taps the EBRD to Supercharge Its Lending Arm
Fawry, Egypt’s largest electronic payments network, is accelerating its push into direct lending, securing...
April 29, 2026
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Who Funds the Outliers? US Investors Are Bankrolling Nigeria’s Most Experimental Deals
There is a counterargument that current data cannot disprove.
April 29, 2026
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The Hidden Machinery Behind Egypt’s Quiet Adtech Exit Boom
Global buyers are snapping up Cairo-based marketing startups, capitalising on years of rigorous local consolidation.
April 29, 2026
