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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

Taika is building a better coffee through natural chemistry and adaptogens

Egyptian fintech Sympl raises 6M for its save now pay later service

Base Ecosystem Fund Hashed Emergent invest 19M in Nestcoin to scale its Onboard product

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

SPACs are a fourletter word again

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

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

Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts

Africas top mobile phone seller Transsion to list in Chinese IPO

Farm to Feed is cutting food loss and creating data platform to improve farming outcomes

Africas mobilebased healthcare initiatives need regulatory and community support not just funding

Thunes raises 10M to make financial services more accessible in emerging markets

Cathay Innovation and AfricInvest to raise 168M Africa VC fund

YCbacked African fintech Cleva founded by Stripe and AWS alums raises 15M preseed

Nigerian agritech Releaf gets more capital as it launches new tech for food processing

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

How emerging technologies can create a more equitable world

Jumia reports 30 growth in value of goods sold on its platform during Black Friday season this year

Public techs espresso shot is quite literally the Cloud

YoLa Fresh a GrubMarket for Morocco digs up 7M to connect farmers with food sellers

Equity Monday: Cryptos awful weekend Apple v Epic and funding rounds galore

Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained

African fintech startup Jumo raises 125M more to fund Asia expansion

Daily Crunch: Porsche announces plans to build a global network of EV charging stations

ChromaCodes tech to boost COVID19 testing gets Bill Gatess backing

Nigerias Kwik gets 2M to add financial services to its lastmile delivery offerings

Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in 20M Series B round

Norebase raises 1M to allow companies start scale and operate in any African country

The Wests unconscious bias against tech in Afrika limits innovation

Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

Kenyan insurtech Lamis bid to acquire Bluewave collapses

Jumia DHL and Alibaba will face off in African ecommerce 20

Meta faces prosecution in South Africa for alleged antitrust breach

3D Printing in Africa: Kenya 3D Printing

Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising 3 million preseed funding

Where is Y Combinator startuphunting in 2022

South African crowdsolving startup Zindi building a community of data scientists and using AI to solve real world problems

54gene CEO steps down as the company looks to cut more jobs

Kenyas Uncover raises 1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa

Mobility startup Plentywaka picks up 12M seed acquires Ghanas Stabus

Nigerian digital bank Yep raises 15M preseed for its financial super app play

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

Kenyas Xetova exploring market data gaps in Africa to boost trade insight access

Kenyan B2B ecommerce platform Marketforce cut about 9 of staff in reorganization strategy

Femtech poised for growth beyond fertility

Google opens product development center in Nairobi its first in Africa

Equator secures 40M in commitments for fund targeting climate tech startups in Africa

Do you have what it takes to compete in Startup Battlefield Africa 2018

Only 2 of genomic material available for research comes from Africa 54gene wants to change that