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A look back at the year that the SubSaharan African startup scene found its stride

Sendy conducts second round of layoffs 20 of its remaining staff affected

Tiger Global backs African fintech Mono in 15M Series A round

Google removes hundreds of Kenyafocused loan apps from Play Store

Why international DFIs are looking to African startups to scale impact investing efforts

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

African digital bank Tyme raises 250M round led by Nubank at 15B valuation

Mass transit group Swvl confirms estimated 100M acquisition of UK startup Zeelo

Daily Crunch: Citing uncertain mortgage market Bettercom rolls out employee buyout plan

Moove takes in 76M equity debt from Mubadala and BlackRock at a 550M valuation

Dear Sophie: How can I get my startup off the ground and visit the US

Egyptian ondemand grocery delivery startup Appetito bags 2M preSeries A

Big Tech on notice as regulators in Africa group to investigate their market conduct

Ivorian fintech Julaya raises 2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa

A look into the British DFIs plan to invest in African economies venture funds and tech startups

Daily Crunch: With 250M Series D fintech Flutterwave becomes Africas highestvalued startup

DFS Lab is helping the developing world bootstrap itself with fintech

After a record 2022 8 investors explain why its still just Day 1 for Africas startup ecosystem

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

Future Africa teams up with TLG Capital to set up 25M venture debt fund for portfolio companies

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

LetsTransport raises 135M to digitize and improve last mile logistics in India

Why this Nigerian fintech startup is volunteering audited financials

Online grocery startup Pricepally to expand in Nigeria backed by 13M funding

COVID19 and Trump visa ban leave South Africa biotech startup in limbo as it plots move to Seattle

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

South African payments gateway Ozow raises 48M Series B led by Tencent

Daily Crunch: Hackers leak nearly 200 gigabytes of internal Samsung source code

Mono a startup that wants to build Plaid for Africa gets backing from Y Combinator

Inside LemFis play to be fintech to the Global South diaspora

Ugandas Rocket Health raises 5M in round led by Creadev to scale telemedicine across Africa

Only 48 hours left to apply for Startup Battlefield Africa 2018

Parisbased VC Breega hits first close of 75M Africa fund to back preseed and seed startups

One of Nigerias high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

African fintech unicorn Chipper Cash lays off about 125 of staff

Founders of wellfunded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa backing Ghanas Berry Health

South Africas Envisionit Deep AI gets 165M to expand access to medical imaging

Techstars CEO Malle Gavet outlines the accelerators newest program in Africa

EVs to power Kenyas bus rapid transit system

We Reali dont know when real estate will get Better

Africas ridehail markets are hot spots for startups and VC

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

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

Femtech poised for growth beyond fertility

Transsions Future Hub and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

Homegrown African VCs emerge to fill in the gaps foreign investors cannot

Google opens product development center in Nairobi its first in Africa

Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africas new largest tech hub

Kenyas Pariti raises 285M led by Harlem Capital to develop startup ecosystems in emerging markets