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Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Flutterwaves 35M and Sendys 20M

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion

Antler East Africa closes 135M fund to invest in earlystage startups

AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Kenyas AIfluence closes 1M for its AIpowered influencer marketing platform

VCs set sights on African countries beyond the Big Four

Metas NPE team takes a global focus with seedstage investments offices in emerging markets

Africa Roundup: DHL invests in MallforAfrica Zipline launches in US Novastar raises 200M

Norrsken Foundations hub opens in Rwanda to house 1000 entrepreneurs by next year

Two years after a first close 500 Startups wraps its Middle East fund with 33 million

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa

Samasource raises 148M for global AI data biz driven from Africa

MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast

Nigerian mobilitytech startup MAX bags 31 million in Series B round set to expand across Africa build EV infrastructure

Nigerias Teesas secures 16M to expand across Africa and launch tutor marketplace

Kenyas Lami raises 18M to scale API insurance platform across Africa

Kenyan lowcost ISP Poa Internet secures 28 million in round led by AfDBbacked Africa50 plans to link region with cheap limitfree connectivity

TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut So Paolo and Lagos

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

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

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 6M expands in Africa

TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut So Paulo and Lagos

Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya

Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa

Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali

Local venture capital fund formation is on the rise in Africa led by Nigeria

Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Fluterwave 35M Sendy 20M

Sokowatch closes 2 million seed round to modernize Africas B2B retail

Nigerias Paga acquires Apposit confirms Mexico and Ethiopia expansion

EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding

Nigerias Autochek acquires Cheki Kenya and Uganda from ROAM Africa

Novastar Ventures becomes 200M African VC fund after 108M raise

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

BuffaloGrid and Techfugees launch education solar charging initiative for refugees aim to raise 3M

SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the worlds next bread basket one solar water pump at a time

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million

Goldfinch raises 25M from a16z to power its DeFi lending protocol for borrowers in developing countries

MKOPA raises 75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

MallforAfrica goes global Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC France explains its 76M fund

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

Kenyabased agritech Apollo raises 40 million in Softbankled round joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CDC

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

Drone delivery startup Zipline launches UAV medical program in Ghana

Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M

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

Sim Shagayas uLesson African edtech startup raises 31M

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