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IFC set to invest 26M in Partechs Africa Fund II

Startups Weekly: Lessons from a failed founder

Nigerian B2B ecommerce startup Alerzo cuts 15 of fulltime staff in second round of layoffs

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

Microsoft partners with VCs accelerators to back 10000 startups in Africa

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

Heres where YCs latest batch of founders are placing fintech bets

Flutterwave denies money laundering and fraud allegations following accounts freeze by Kenyan court

The intensifying battle for Africas burgeoning tech landscape

Nigerias Gloong drops consumer ecommerce pivots to eprocurement

Nigerias Interswitch confirms 1B valuation after Visa investment

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

South African challenger bank TymeBank raises 778M from Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital

Raise a startup building Africas Carta gets backing from 500 Startups

TradeDepot raises 110M from IFC Novastar to extend BNPL service to merchants across Africa

Google opens product development center in Nairobi the first in Africa

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

WorldCover raises 6M round for emerging markets climate insurance

mPharma a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

Metaverses grapple with Meta versus Apple

Pesa unlocks new markets to keep remittances flowing to emerging economies

This YC Summer batch features the largest group of African startups yet

Nigerias ruling party may have sold its verified Twitter handle to John McAfee

Y Combinator neobank Djamo raises 17M with 1M users across Francophone Africa

US security experts admit Chinas 5G dominance push for public investment

Traction raises 6M seed as Nigerias merchant acquiring space continues to heat up

TLcom and 4DX drive 131M seed round to scale Autocheks platform across Africa

HelpSelf uses simple AI to help those in legal trouble

Daily Crunch: 2 months after launching So Paulobased payments startup Yuno raises 10M

Starting in wartorn Sudan YCbacked Elevate now provides fintech to freelancers globally

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

Nigerian fintech Zone raises 85M seed to scale its decentralized payment infrastructure

Scientists in Ghana want to fight child pneumonia with beads

Africa Roundup: CcHubs iHub acquisition Andelas 50M run rate and layoffs Transsions IPO

Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

Productive solar technologies draw investors as global offgrid solar sector funding slumps

Lee Fixels Addition leads 6M seed round in Egyptian fintech Flash

In Nigeria PalmPay waives fees and creates 100M COVID19 payout fund

Kotani gets 2M preseed to help African workers send money home via crypto without the internet

MaxAB the Egyptian B2B food and grocery delivery startup raises 40M for expansion

WHO Africa hosts hackathons offers seed funds to fight COVID19

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

South African startup Talk360s seed funding hits 7M after new backing

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

QED seeds 99M in Cedar Money a stablecoin payment platform

International startups shrug off US insurtech meltdown

Nigerias CredPal secures 15M in debt and equity to scale its BNPL product across Africa

December in Africa: Ghanian healthcare drones and Cameroonian separatist cryptocurrency

The Sun Exchange raises 3M for crypto driven solar power in Africa

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa