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Uzoma Dozies Sparkle raises 31M for personal business neobank play in Nigeria

Fidelity Visa and Kingsway back South African fintech JUMO in 120M round

Paymob started by three college friends lands another 22M and is profitable in Egypt

Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz

The Folklore Group secures 17 million launches fashion B2B ecommerce platform

African incubator MEST has a new MD and 11 fresh startup investments

Algerias Yassir picks up 30M to build a super app in North Africa

Things are heating up for Costanoa Ventures closes two oversubscribed funds

Africa Roundup: Goldman backs Kobo360 Rwanda commits to EVs Interswitch IPO update

Andela which builds engineering teams tapping African talent goes fullyremote and opens to the wider continent

Kenyan agtech Shamba Pride raises 37M to grow its merchant network

Manara gets 3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa

SPAC is a fourletter word again

BlackSkys latest satellites return images just 58 hours after SpaceX launch

AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services

BRCK acquires ISPs EveryLayer and Surf to boost Africas public WiFi

Naspers leads 11M investment in South African insurtech Naked

Zembo nabs 34 million from Toyota DOB Equity and InfraCo Africa to grow its motorcycle startup in Uganda

Tofino Capital reaches first close of 10M fund to back startups in frontier markets

African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth spurring a 7M investment initiative

Consumer finance app Djamo eyes Francophone Africa expansion backed by new 14M round

Blockchain could keep childmined cobalt out of our phones

Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises 100M from AI Capital BioNTech Google

Nigerian financial management app for merchants Kippa bags 84M in new funding

MarketForce partners with Cellulant to expand in five new markets across Africa as it races to cover continent

In the wake of Dashs closure due to fraud 5 investors talk due diligence in Africa

Why Rally Cap VC a fintech investor for emerging markets is launching a 5M climate fund spinoff

Egypts ecommerce platform Wasla nabs 9 million from retail finance provider Contact

Nigerian fintech Abeg faces its biggest test yet after blitzscaling to millions of users

A year after expanding to Europe Nigerian fintech Lidya raises 83M to scale lending operations

What has KOBO360 been up to in the last 2 years

Fintech platform Synapse raises 33M to build the AWS of banking

Byjus targets global expansion for its digital education service after raising 540M

As the global venture capital market slows Africa charts its own course

3D Printing in Africa: 3D Printing in Ghana

Sokowatch raises 14M to digitize Africas informal B2B supplychain

Google removes hundreds of Kenyafocused loan apps from Play Store

Once serving wartorn Sudan YCbacked Elevate now provides fintech to freelancers globally

Nigerian restaurant management platform Orda gets 11M wants to be the Toast of Africa

Egypts Cartona raises 81M even as investors pull back from B2B ecommerce in Africa

Companybuilder VC Antler says it can back startups to Series C but what are its terms

Clickatell raises 91M to scale its chat commerce platform and US expansion

Nigerias Termii to launch mobile app and scale customer engagement business with new funding

Kenyas insurtech Turaco maintains 1 billion user target as it raises 10M funding

Israels cybersecurity startups post another record year in 2021

SunFi aims to be the fastest way for Nigerians to find finance and manage solar

Nigerias Etap gets 15M preseed to make buying car insurance easier

Nigerias Grey raises 2M for crossborder payments play and regional expansion

Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel

African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect