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Agri-Fintech Startup Livestock Wealth Placed Under Liquidation After Failed Rescue Bid
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Egypt’s Beltone Reaps 271% Venture Capital Revenue Jump as Bosta Exit Validates Strategy
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AFC Injects $100M into African VC Funds to Bridge the Local Capital Gap
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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 Elite Funnel: Why African Tech’s New Financing Mix Signals a Hollowing of the Core
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Geographic Borders Blur as Africa-Focused Funds Chase Global Infrastructure
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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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13 Charts From a Decade of African Exits — And the Uncomfortable Takeaway
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The $350m Proof: Inside South Africa’s Rising Cult of the Bootstrapped Exit
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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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“We Carry the Weight for Others”: Inside the $2M Raise for Tanzania’s Hybrid AgriTech Pioneer MazaoHub
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The $150m Pivot: Can Yango Outrun African Regulators by Targeting Smaller Cities?
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From Scale-ups to ‘Foreign Agents’: Uganda’s Fintechs Face a Regulatory Death Sentence
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South Africa’s AI Framework Fails the Ultimate Turing Test
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South African Fintech Flagship Yoco Buys Restaurant Software Platform Dyner.ai
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Nigeria’s Alerzo Dissolves Singapore SPVs Amid Asset Freeze and Legal Battle
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The Hidden Machinery Behind Egypt’s Quiet Adtech Exit Boom
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78% Below Cost: The Unforgiving Math Behind Digital Health Startup Vezeeta’s Pivot to Bricks and Mortar
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Nearly 80% of African Startup Funding in May Was Debt
A month without a single equity round above $10m also raises questions.
May 29, 2026
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The Elite Funnel: Why African Tech’s New Financing Mix Signals a Hollowing of the Core
Priced equity rounds from US and Gulf venture capital have all but vanished.
May 29, 2026
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Nearly 80% of African Startup Funding in May Was Debt
A month without a single equity round above $10m also raises questions.
May 29, 2026
Analysis & Opinions
The Elite Funnel: Why African Tech’s New Financing Mix Signals a Hollowing of the Core
Priced equity rounds from US and Gulf venture capital have all but vanished.
May 29, 2026
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NALA Secures up to $50M Credit Facility From MUFG-Backed Liquidity to Pre-Fund Stablecoin Payment Corridors
"At some point our business was more than doubling every other quarter, we grew faster than we could handle pre-funding for single-direction payments and everything broke."
May 28, 2026
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South African Fintech Flagship Yoco Buys Restaurant Software Platform Dyner.ai
The South African payments group is bolting on an AI-native operating system for restaurants, while a new European CEO prepares to take the helm.
May 28, 2026
