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Novastar Ventures becomes 200M African VC fund after 108M raise
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Kenyas Wapi Pay raises 22M preseed for crossborder payments between Africa and Asia
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SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the worlds next bread basket one solar water pump at a time
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MKOPA raises 75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets
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Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Fluterwave 35M Sendy 20M
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Sudans first YCbacked startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth
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A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets
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Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M
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CarePoint raises 10M to spread healthcare tech across Africa
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Umba a digital bank for emerging markets raises 2M Seed funding to expand across Africa
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Why COVID19 could delay Interswitch Africas next big IPO
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Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises 1M preseed for its readytoeat meals service
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Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19
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Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa
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Kenya turns to its mobilemoney dominance to stem the spread of COVID19
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Kenyas AIfluence closes 1M for its AIpowered influencer marketing platform
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African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors
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Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali
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Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion
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Nigerian mobilitytech startup MAX bags 31 million in Series B round set to expand across Africa build EV infrastructure
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Metas NPE team takes a global focus with seedstage investments offices in emerging markets
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African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect
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Startups BRCK and Swvl partner on free WiFi for Kenyan ridehail buses
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Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19
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Two years after a first close 500 Startups wraps its Middle East fund with 33 million
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Africa Roundup: DHL invests in MallforAfrica Zipline launches in US Novastar raises 200M
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Googles Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Ugandas SafeBoda
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Kenyan lowcost ISP Poa Internet secures 28 million in round led by AfDBbacked Africa50 plans to link region with cheap limitfree connectivity
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Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million
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Norrsken Foundations hub opens in Rwanda to house 1000 entrepreneurs by next year
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Ugandan lender Asaak raises 30million to support acquisition of motorbikes smartphones by taxi operators
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Only 2 of genomic material available for research comes from Africa 54gene wants to change that
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Nigerias Autochek acquires Cheki Kenya and Uganda from ROAM Africa
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MallforAfrica goes global Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC France explains its 76M fund
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Samasource raises 148M for global AI data biz driven from Africa
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Africa Roundup: Zimbabwes net blackout Partechs 143M fund Andelas 100M raise Flutterwaves pivot
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Daily Crunch: 2 months after launching So Paulobased payments startup Yuno raises 10M
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Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Flutterwaves 35M and Sendys 20M
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Zipline begins US medical delivery with UAV program honed in Africa
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Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya
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Nigerias Grey raises 2M for crossborder payments play and regional expansion
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Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene
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Antler East Africa closes 135M fund to invest in earlystage startups
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Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech
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Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to 143 million
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Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz
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Nigerian edtech startup Teesas secures 16 million in preseed round to launch tutor marketplace expand in East Southern Francophone Africa in 2022
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Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa
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Ivorian fintech Julaya raises 2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa
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AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services