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Nvidia Joins Google in Backing Cassava’s African Supercomputing Play
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Ivory Coast’s Anka Acquired for Undisclosed Sum Following French Parent’s Swift Liquidation
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Meet the Fund Manager Deploying a $1bn Zafiri War Chest for Africa’s Off-Grid Energy Startups
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South African Insect Protein Startup Inseco Shuts Down After Raising $5.3M — ‘We Made Some Bad Hires’
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Moroccan Proptech Yakeey Gets $7M Backing from IFC to Fix ‘Opaque’ Real Estate Market
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YC Alum Chari Raises $12M to Launch a Banking-as-a-Service Platform in Morocco
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Africa’s Payment Maze: Are New State-Backed Rails a Map or a Trap for Fintechs?
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The Hunt Is On: Tracking African Startup-Led Acquisition Spree of 2025
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The Secret to Central Africa’s Fintech Boom? A 450,000-Strong Army of Agents
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Meet 30 Leading Africa-focused VC Firms Led by Female Managers
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The Three Trends Defining Fintech Investment in Francophone Africa This Year
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A 230-Angel Network, Beyond the ‘Big Four’: Inside Renew Capital’s Quiet Conquest of African VC
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The Q4 Hunt: Where African Startups Can Still Find VC Cash Before Year-End
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Inside the $2.75M Experiment That’s Rewriting Africa’s Climate Tech Rules
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Shell-Backed Fund, UK’s BII Top Nigerian Tech Funding List in 2025 as VCs Retreat
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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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How a Nigerian Engineer Helped Build a $1 Billion Fintech Giant
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GENIUS Act: “America is catching up to Africa on stablecoins” — Yellow Card’s Gillian Darko on Regulation, B2B Pivot
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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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HyperionDev’s $31M War Chest and the Curious Case of the ‘Pro Bono’ Co-Founder
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‘No Legal Basis’: Morocco Blocks Ride-Hailing, Handing Victory to Taxi Unions
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South Africa’s Scrapped VC Tax Break: A $150k Fraud Case Reveals the Ugly Truth
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What New Delaware Investor Information Rules Mean for African Startups
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The ₦1.2M Problem: Why a Single New Rule Could Cripple Nigeria’s Fintech Agents
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A State-Backed Telco Wants to Dethrone MTN and Orange Cameroon in Mobile Money Showdown
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How Money Fellows Hit Profitability by Digitising Egypt’s Informal ‘Gam’eya’ — and Processing $1.5B
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The British Remittance Fintech Powering Central Africa’s $1B Mobile Money Boom
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Pezesha Founder Joins Africa’s New Wave of Founder-Investors
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South Africa’s Solar Startups Win Major Concession on $1,700 Solar Registration Fee
Solar startups reported that customers were delaying or cancelling installations due to the high costs and complexity of the registration process.
October 23, 2025
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Nvidia Joins Google in Backing Cassava’s African Supercomputing Play
NVIDIA’s investment backs a company that has spent years assembling the necessary, vertically integrated components to execute this vision.
October 23, 2025
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South Africa’s Solar Startups Win Major Concession on $1,700 Solar Registration Fee
Solar startups reported that customers were delaying or cancelling installations due to the high costs and complexity of the registration process.
October 23, 2025
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Nvidia Joins Google in Backing Cassava’s African Supercomputing Play
NVIDIA’s investment backs a company that has spent years assembling the necessary, vertically integrated components to execute this vision.
October 23, 2025
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Egypt’s Regulators Double Down on Fintech, Blocking ‘Traditional’ Lenders for Another Year
The timing of the announcement is telling. It comes just as the champions of this new, tech-first model are demonstrating their formidable financial power.
October 22, 2025
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Ghost in the Payroll: How to Uncover Payroll Fraud
Many organisations don't realise they are victims of payroll fraud; How do they find out?
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