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Africa’s First EV Battery Gigafactory Secures $114M in AfDB Funding
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FMO Backs M-KOPA’s E-Mobility Spinout With $30M Green Debt Package
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Pepkor Creates $1.2bn Fintech Unicorn Ahead of Planned IPO
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Africa Go Green Tests a New Debt Model for African Carbon Projects With BioLite Financing
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Uber to Acquire Glovo and Talabat’s African Operations Under Delivery Hero’s $16.9bn Takeover
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With 160% ARR Growth, SA Customer Support Startup Cue Lands $5m to Target the UK
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PAPSS Inches Closer to Continent-Wide Coverage as Central African Central Bank Joins
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Context Is the New IP: Inside the New Wave of Africa’s Early-Stage AI Micro-M&A
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Third-Party Vendors vs. In-House Builds: The Real Divide in African Banking’s AI Success
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Is This the End of the Accelerator Era in African Tech?
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Why Africa’s Startup Funding Leaderboards Look Different This Year
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Beyond the Remittance Hype: The 3 Business Models Winning VC Cash in Africa’s Stablecoin Boom
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Seven Brutal Truths About African Tech Startup Funding in H1 2026
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Pitch Decks vs. Prospectuses: The Messy Courtship of Africa’s Tech Scene and Old-Money Bourses
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While Others Fled, This Nigerian Corporate VC Kept Writing Cheques
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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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‘Don’t Wait to Be Perfect’: How Selling Imperfect Produce Helped Farm to Feed Land a $1.5M Seed Round
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From Binance Unblocks to Total Ban: Ethiopia Targets Crypto Wallets in Expanding Digital Asset Ban
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The Executive Order Behind Nigeria’s Crypto Licensing Confusion
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Equity Dispute Puts OPay’s Employee Share Scheme Under Scrutiny Ahead of Potential IPO
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Free Licences, Open Batteries and a 6-Month Time Bomb — Rwanda Plays Chicken With EV Founders
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Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences
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West African Payments Reform Gets Three-Month Reprieve for Fintech Operators
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A Reprieve for Kenya’s Electric Vehicles. But for How Long?
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Airtel Africa Picks London for $245bn Mobile Money IPO but Faces Independence Test
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1M Users in 8 Years, 9M in 6: The Smartphone Pivot Driving M-KOPA’s Hypergrowth
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Donor-Backed AI Health Tools Proliferate Across Africa, but Sustainability Remains Elusive
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Rooibos Becomes South Africa’s Latest Export — to Space
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Why Europe’s Development Bank Is Writing Multi-Million Euro Checks for Egyptian Fintechs
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From Pilot to Profit: Kenya’s Jackfruit Finance Takes Its School Lending Model Across East Africa
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Koko Networks Puts Ethanol Platform on the Block in $15m Asset Sale
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71% of WAEMU Transaction Value Still Flows Through Cheques — Despite BCEAO’s New Instant Payment Rail
BCEAO’s annual report reveals why getting 100m people to ditch paper is a multi-year slog.
July 24, 2026
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African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals
Here's a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we're tracking this month.
July 24, 2026
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71% of WAEMU Transaction Value Still Flows Through Cheques — Despite BCEAO’s New Instant Payment Rail
BCEAO’s annual report reveals why getting 100m people to ditch paper is a multi-year slog.
July 24, 2026
Updates
African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals
Here's a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we're tracking this month.
July 24, 2026
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Africa’s First EV Battery Gigafactory Secures $114M in AfDB Funding
The 10GWh Rabat facility—led by Chinese giant Gotion High-Tech—marks the first integrated LFP battery site in Africa and the Middle East.
July 24, 2026
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The Promise and Peril of Lending to Egypt’s Unbanked: Inside Valu’s Growth Dilemma
Egypt's largest consumer finance platform has built a business on financial inclusion, but a mysterious data discrepancy in its annual report raises questions about the true cost of that mission.
July 23, 2026
