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

Last year was a tough period for African growthstage startups and 2024 presents a mixed bag

Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa

Startups BRCK and Swvl partner on free WiFi for Kenyan ridehail buses

This stealthy African stablecoin startup already processed over 1B in crossborder payments

Zola Electric closes 90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

Sylndr an online usedcar retailer raises 126M preseed to disrupt Egypts automotive market

Bluechip an African systems integrator with partners like Microsoft and Oracle is expanding to Europe

LetsTransport raises 135M to digitize and improve lastmile logistics in India

Nigerias Kuda raises 10M to be the mobilefirst challenger bank for Africa

Egyptian financial services provider MNTHalan valued at 1B in 400M funding

Kenya suspends Worldcoin scans over security privacy and financial concerns

Naspers leads 11M investment in South African insurtech Naked

Zenysis raises 133M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa Asia and South America

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

Paystack reduces operations outside of Africa affecting 33 employees in Europe and Dubai

Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with 20M Pepea fund

Bfree a Nigerian startup enabling lenders recover debt ethically gets 3M backing

Moderna says its making variantspecific COVID19 vaccines but its existing vaccine should still work

This factory of factories helps hardware startups solve real problems in Kenya

Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad

Global Processing Services adds 100M to its coffers to grow its embedded finance and API payments platform

ChromaCodes tech to boost COVID19 testing gets Bill Gatess backing

Chipper Cash executes second round of layoffs less than three months after axing 125 of staff

Kenyas Wapi Pay raises 22M preseed for crossborder payments between Africa and Asia

MoneyHash raises 45M for its payment orchestration platform serving merchants in MENA

Egypts Nawy the largest proptech in Africa lands a 52M Series A to take on MENA

AI versus SaaS EV charging and a new 250M fund

Contactless Payments Market Analysis Growth Size Share Trends Forecast to 2025 by Gemalto NV Ingenico Group Verifone Systems Inc

YCbacked Duplo raises 13M preseed to build financial OS for B2B companies in Nigeria

QED and Partech back South African payment orchestration platform Revio in 52M seed

Sylndr with fresh 157M allows users to buy sell finance and service used cars in Egypt

MallforAfrica and DHL launch MarketPlace Africa global ecommerce site

Huawei employees reportedly aided African governments in spying

Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene

MENA VC Flat6Labs new fund to back startups in East West Africa

Jia a blockchainbased lender of small businesses in emerging markets raises 43 million seed

After raising 4 million Emtech supports central banks across Africa the Caribbean to deploy regulatory sandboxes

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Omniful a supply chain and ecommerce enablement startup emerges from stealth with 585M

Beacon Power Services raises 27M to improve electricity access for subSaharan African cities

Egypts Nawy the largest proptech in Africa raises 52M to take on MENA

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These investors want to back ridiculously early femaleled African startups

Helium Health gets 30M backed by AXA IM Alts and 23andMes Anne Wojcicki

Kenyan BNPL startup Lipa Later eyes more African markets after raising 12 million

How affordable agricultural technology is solving food insecurity in Nigeria

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