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FINCA Ventures Backs Six African Resilience Tech Startups with Catalytic Capital
Washington-based impact investor deploys non-dilutive funding to early-stage fintech and agtech ventures facing persistent early-stage funding gaps.
October 7, 2026
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Township Fibre, Mortgage Tech, and $168M in Domestic Dry Powder
Four years after spinning out of Ethos PE, the Johannesburg-based firm signals a rare vote of confidence from local pension funds.
October 6, 2026
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FINCA Ventures Backs Six African Resilience Tech Startups with Catalytic Capital
Washington-based impact investor deploys non-dilutive funding to early-stage fintech and agtech ventures facing persistent early-stage funding gaps.
October 7, 2026
Updates
Township Fibre, Mortgage Tech, and $168M in Domestic Dry Powder
Four years after spinning out of Ethos PE, the Johannesburg-based firm signals a rare vote of confidence from local pension funds.
October 6, 2026
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The Secret Antitrust Battle That Helped Sink Koko Networks
The collapse of Kenya's largest clean-cooking company is blamed on a government refusal to authorise carbon credit sales. A court ruling in Nairobi shows that a competition inquiry into its main supply contract was running alongside that dispute.
October 6, 2026
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Egypt’s CIB Backs MNT-Halan With $37M Anchor Investment Ahead of IPO
The country’s largest private bank commits EGP 2bn to the upcoming Cairo stock market listing.
October 5, 2026