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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 Battle for Driver Financing: Gozem’s $24.5M Debt Raise Raises the Stakes for Regional Rivals
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Strait of Hormuz Shock: How Regional Turmoil Accelerated Egypt’s High-Voltage Ambitions
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Former Molten Ventures CEO Moves Into Southern African Secondaries With New £50m Fund
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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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The ‘Early-Stage Hollow’: Is the Rise of Successor Funds Leaving African Seed Founders Behind?
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Morocco’s Hanout Wars: Three Startups, $10m, and One Corner Shop
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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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‘I Collapsed and Cried for Hours’: How Hypeo AI’s Founder Turned Her Worst Day Into a Venture-Backed Startup
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From Scale-ups to ‘Foreign Agents’: Uganda’s Fintechs Face a Regulatory Death Sentence
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Egypt’s Central Bank Removes Ownership Cap on Fintechs, Clearing the Way for Bank Acquisitions
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South Africa’s AI Framework Fails the Ultimate Turing Test
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End of the $500k Barrier for Foreign-Owned Firms: What Ghana’s New Investment Law Means for Tech Founders
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The 11-Day Hustle: How Two Senior Employees Tried to Clone a South African Mining Tech Leader (And Failed)
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Sunset for the Blue Flame: Koko Networks Begins Its Final Liquidation Journey
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Fintech Unicorn dLocal Bets on the Middle East as Africa’s Turbulence Refuses to Settle
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The Hidden Machinery Behind Egypt’s Quiet Adtech Exit Boom
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London’s Lightrock Closes $500M Fund to Back Energy Access Firms Across Africa and Asia
The fund targets a critical bottleneck in emerging market climate tech: the lack of growth-stage capital for established operators.
May 15, 2026
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