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Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

Umba a digital bank for emerging markets raises 2M Seed funding to expand across Africa

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

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Nigerias Grey raises 2M for crossborder payments play and regional expansion

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

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

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa

EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding

MFS Africa collects 100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region

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

Nigerias Paga acquires Apposit confirms Mexico and Ethiopia expansion

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

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

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 6M expands in Africa

Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene

CarePoint raises 10M to spread healthcare tech across Africa

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

Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion

African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors

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

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

Sudans first YCbacked startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth

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

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

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

Kenya turns to its mobilemoney dominance to stem the spread of COVID19

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

Startups BRCK and Swvl partner on free WiFi for Kenyan ridehail buses

Ugandan lender Asaak raises 30million to support acquisition of motorbikes smartphones by taxi operators

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

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

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

Zipline begins US medical delivery with UAV program honed in Africa

Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom

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

The 25 crypto startups that Y Combinator is backing in its W22 batch

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

VCs set sights on African countries beyond the Big Four

Kenyas AIfluence closes 1M for its AIpowered influencer marketing platform

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

Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz

Kenyan fintech Asilimia raises 2 million in a preseed round plans to extend loans to MSMEs and expand in East Africa

AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services

MAXng raises 7M round backed by Yamaha and pilots EVs in Nigeria

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

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