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Kenya’s Peach Cars Raises $11M to Build Africa’s Most Trusted Used Car Marketplace
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Egypt’s Fintech Firms Given 12 Months to Get Licensed or Shut Down
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French Court Orders Compulsory Liquidation of Ivorian-Founded Fintech Bizao
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Egypt’s DisrupTech Ventures Backs Nigeria’s Winich Farms in Rare Investment Move
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Tesla Opens Casablanca Office With Plans to Sell Cars, Solar — and Electricity
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Africa’s Biggest Battery-Backed Solar Project Is Coming to Southern Egypt — Backed by $184M in Funding
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Lagos Leads Africa in Startup Unicorns — but Its Developers Are Among the World’s Lowest Paid
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The €20 Billion Leaky Bucket: Why Africa’s Climate Tech Isn’t Getting Funded
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Why South African Businesses Are Prime Cyberattack Targets
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Egypt’s Elsewedy Capital Takes Unlikely Leap Into Startup Investing
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The Hidden Forces Behind Africa’s Startup-led Acquisition Wave
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African VCs Still Flush With Cash? The 2025 Dry Powder Update
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Malls as Modern Marketplaces: Reinventing Relevance in the Digital Age
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Inside the Most Powerful VC Syndicates Fueling African Tech in 2025
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2025 Fundraising Checklist for Nigerian Startups: The Metrics VCs Actually Care About Now
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From $100M Exit to 26 Startup Investments: Expensya Co-Founder Karim Jouini’s Strategy — “Focus Is Key”
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Meet the Funder: Nobesuthu Ndlovu, Director SME, Old Mutual Corporate
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‘We Were Targeting Markets in America and the UK, Thinking They Were Bigger’ — SWVL Founder on Failed Acquisitions
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A Cap on Power: Nigeria Draws the Line on Founders Clinging to the CEO Seat
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African Crypto Firm Yellow Card Turns to Visa After Regulatory Bust-Up in Ghana
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Will Egypt’s New Insurance Rules Spark an Insurtech Revolution?
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Fintech Unicorn Wave Has Landed in Central Africa — But So Has a Regulatory Storm
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Ethiopia Is Finally Opening Up — But Only If You’re ‘Trustworthy’
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Bank of Ghana, Yellow Card, and Stablecoins: The Unfinished Regulatory Tension
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Djamo’s Fintech Crown Under Threat as Axian and Wave Target Its Prepaid Fortress
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Nigerian B2B E-Commerce Startup Sabi Cuts 20% of Workforce in Major Restructuring Push
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Lessons from a Meltdown: How Swvl Is Reinventing Its Expansion Playbook
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MTN’s Fintech Spinoff Could Be the Biggest Shake-Up in African Finance Yet
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10,000 Interns and Counting: The Massive Tech Skills Offensive Led by Egypt’s ITIDA
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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 week.
June 20, 2025
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The €20 Billion Leaky Bucket: Why Africa’s Climate Tech Isn’t Getting Funded
A Nigerian minigrid operator pays $250,000 more annually in interest than a structurally identical project in India.
June 20, 2025
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From Penny Stock to $15 Per Share, Egypt’s Transport Startup SWVL Finds its Bearings on Nasdaq
SWVL, the Egyptian-born transport startup once heralded as a unicorn, has found itself at...
April 5, 2024
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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 week.
June 20, 2025
Analysis & Opinions
The €20 Billion Leaky Bucket: Why Africa’s Climate Tech Isn’t Getting Funded
A Nigerian minigrid operator pays $250,000 more annually in interest than a structurally identical project in India.
June 20, 2025
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A Cap on Power: Nigeria Draws the Line on Founders Clinging to the CEO Seat
The implications are clear. Founders can no longer assume indefinite stewardship of the entities they birthed.
June 20, 2025
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Djamo’s Fintech Crown Under Threat as Axian and Wave Target Its Prepaid Fortress
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June 20, 2025
