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Appeal Dismissed, Liquidation Confirmed: Court Delivers Final Blow to Mastercard-Backed $106m African Startup Fund
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France’s Digital Africa Launches $58M Seed Fund to Back Overlooked African Tech Markets
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SA’s Yoco Hands CEO Role to German Turnaround Specialist as Founders Step Back
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Ghana-Founded Insurtech Pioneer Bima to be Acquired in $119m Digital Health Roll-Up
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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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Africa’s New VC Funds Missing from Early 2026 Dealmaking
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The Quiet Extinction of the African Seed Round: Ten Hard Truths From April’s Funding Data
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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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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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“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 Wait to Be Perfect’: How Selling Imperfect Produce Helped Farm to Feed Land a $1.5M Seed Round
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From Scale-ups to ‘Foreign Agents’: Uganda’s Fintechs Face a Regulatory Death Sentence
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GrowthLabs Acquires Startup Gate to Unify MENA’s Fragmented Tech Ecosystem
With the integration underway, GrowthLabs is stepping on the gas for geographic and product expansion.
May 18, 2026
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London’s Lightrock Closes $500M Fund to Back Energy Access Firms Across Africa and Asia
The fund targets a critical bottleneck in emerging market climate tech: the lack of growth-stage capital for established operators.
May 15, 2026
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GrowthLabs Acquires Startup Gate to Unify MENA’s Fragmented Tech Ecosystem
With the integration underway, GrowthLabs is stepping on the gas for geographic and product expansion.
May 18, 2026
Updates
London’s Lightrock Closes $500M Fund to Back Energy Access Firms Across Africa and Asia
The fund targets a critical bottleneck in emerging market climate tech: the lack of growth-stage capital for established operators.
May 15, 2026
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Fintech Unicorn dLocal Bets on the Middle East as Africa’s Turbulence Refuses to Settle
This reversal of fortune is stark.
May 15, 2026
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Appeal Dismissed, Liquidation Confirmed: Court Delivers Final Blow to Mastercard-Backed $106m African Startup Fund
A South African high court has rejected a final attempt by Africa Founders Ventures and its business rescue practitioner to overturn a winding-up order.
May 15, 2026
