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In a Debt-Heavy Solar Sector, Sun King Lands Rare $40m Equity Round From Lightrock
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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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From Logistics to Fintech, E-Commerce to Mushrooms: Inside Africa’s Year of Unlikely Comebacks
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Phygital Scale: Ghana’s CarePoint Taps Japanese Debt to Push “Micro-Clinic” Model Into Egypt
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Teranga Capital Targets West Africa’s ‘Frontier’ Markets With New DFI Backing
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Renewed Ties and Regulatory Reforms Open South African Doors to UK Fintechs
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I&P Secures $46.7m First Close for Third African Fund to Target the ‘Missing Middle’
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Africa’s Tech Reckoning: Why 2025 Became the Year of Deals, Departures and Difficult Truths
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The Hunt Is On: Tracking African Startup-Led Acquisition Spree of 2025
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Mapped: Where Gulf VC Money Is Currently Flowing in Africa — And Where It Isn’t
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DFIs and European Funds Keep Africa’s 2025 Rebound on Track in November Despite Cooling VC Flows
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Egypt’s Government Is Backing More Startups Than Kenya and Nigeria Combined. What Gives?
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The Solo Capitalists: Sector Mandates, Not Partners, Rule African Seed Investing
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Hard Hardware: Why African EV Startups Are Struggling to Fit the VC Power Law
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The 4% Problem: The Multi-Billion Dollar Hole in Africa’s Agritech Story
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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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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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End of the Road for Banxso Executives: South Africa’s Fintech Dream Turns Into a $118M Nightmare
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Egypt Mandates State Insurance Funds to Pump Cash Into Local Equities
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Tunisia Scraps 50-Year Forex Rule to Retain Tech Talent and Startups
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2026 Forecast: New CBN Rules Could Turn Nigeria’s Fintech Growth Engine Into a Cost Centre
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Egypt Makes Remote Tech Talent Exports Tax-Free — And Multinationals Are Lining Up
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Ethiopia’s New Currency War Front: The Back Offices of Licensed Fintech Apps
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South Africa’s Stablecoin Obsession Is a $5bn Headache for Regulators
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The Human Cost of Peak Season: Why Retail’s Busiest Period Demands a People-First Strategy
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“Open” vs “Owned”: A Two-Track EV Strategy Emerges in East Africa
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Regulators Circle Shein and Temu After Explosive Report on SA Market Disruption
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Kenyan Insurtech mTek Makes Rare Exit to Singapore Unicorn Bolttech
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Africa’s Mobility Fintechs Are Going Overseas — Hakki’s Thailand Launch Shows Why
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The HEC Paris Experiment: Can Policy + Capital Move Côte d’Ivoire From the Margins of African Tech?
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Five African Women-Led Startups Win Naspers Backing — a First for the Embattled Investor
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Algeria’s Public Startup Fund Scores First Exit as Travel-Tech Völz Raises $5M
The deal marks a liquidity event for the state-backed Algerian Startup Fund and signals the entry of local industrial capital into the tech ecosystem.
December 12, 2025
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The Human Cost of Peak Season: Why Retail’s Busiest Period Demands a People-First Strategy
Ashwin Rajah, Founder of the Stress to Success System and Mindset Matters, and a Partner at Change Partners, writes from Midrand, South Africa.
December 12, 2025
