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Delta40 Secures $20M for Africa’s First Integrated Studio-and-Fund Model
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Egypt’s Beltone Buys Baobab Group in $235M Deal to Expand Into Nigeria and Francophone Africa
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‘Don’t Wait for a Cash Crunch’: The $70M Debt Playbook from Lula’s Trevor Gosling
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South Africa’s Lula Bags $21M to Double Down on SME Lending
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GoCab Secures $45M to Challenge Moove in the Race for Africa’s Gig-Worker Assets
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Koko Networks’ Lenders in Limbo as World Bank-Backed Clean Cooking Giant Collapses
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From Payments to Credit: Nigerian Fintech Moniepoint Deploys $720M to Corner Shops and Supermarkets
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Death by Paperwork: How African Governments Quietly Became Their Startups’ Biggest Risk
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Africa’s 100 Most Active Tech Startup Investors — Ranked by Deal Activity (2025)
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From 5x Returns to 70% Losses: What VNV’s African Bets Say About Egypt’s Tech Reset
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Nine Key Trends That Shaped African Tech Funding in January
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Inside the 2025 Playbook of Africa’s Most Active Tech Investors
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Checkbooks and Caution: The Tentative Reset of African Tech Startups’ Missing Investors
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Fragile but Forming: The Reality of Francophone Africa’s Angel Investing Landscape in 2025
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The $2bn Power Play: Why Egypt Is Suddenly Africa’s Hottest Battery Market
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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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“We Carry the Weight for Others”: Inside the $2M Raise for Tanzania’s Hybrid AgriTech Pioneer MazaoHub
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‘I Collapsed and Cried for Hours’: How Hypeo AI’s Founder Turned Her Worst Day Into a Venture-Backed Startup
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Five Months In: Why West Africa’s Fintech Giants are Still Holding Out on Interoperable Payments
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A $50M Fund Without Rules and a Law Without Passage: Ghana’s Startup Policy Paradox
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How an Inside Job Gutted South Africa’s Leading Adtech Firm in 72 Hours
On the morning of November 25, 2025, executives at Media Host (Pty) Ltd opened an email that would unravel 14 years of business in a matter of days.
February 12, 2026
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Nigerian Tech Is Missing the $1bn Local Debt Party
While 'Old Economy' giants raised a record ₦1.6tn ($1.12bn) in short-term debt in 2025, Nigeria's tech ecosystem was noticeably absent.
February 12, 2026
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How an Inside Job Gutted South Africa’s Leading Adtech Firm in 72 Hours
On the morning of November 25, 2025, executives at Media Host (Pty) Ltd opened an email that would unravel 14 years of business in a matter of days.
February 12, 2026
Policy & Regulations Forum
Nigerian Tech Is Missing the $1bn Local Debt Party
While 'Old Economy' giants raised a record ₦1.6tn ($1.12bn) in short-term debt in 2025, Nigeria's tech ecosystem was noticeably absent.
February 12, 2026
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IFC Backs Aruwa Capital’s $50M Second Fund as It Eyes Ghana Expansion
Ticket sizes for ACF II are expected to range between $1m and $3m, focusing on businesses that have moved beyond the seed stage but remain too small for global PE players.
February 11, 2026
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Delta40 Secures $20M for Africa’s First Integrated Studio-and-Fund Model
The studio typically writes initial checks between $100k and $500k. However, the real value proposition is the “capital leverage.”
February 11, 2026