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

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

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

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz

VCs set sights on African countries beyond the Big Four

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

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

Googles Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Ugandas SafeBoda

Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises 1M preseed for its readytoeat meals service

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

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

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

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

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

Drone delivery startup Zipline launches UAV medical program in Ghana

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

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

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

Kenyas AIfluence closes 1M for its AIpowered influencer marketing platform

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya

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

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

Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion

Zipline begins US medical delivery with UAV program honed in Africa

EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding

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

Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali

Sokowatch closes 2 million seed round to modernize Africas B2B retail

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

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

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

CarePoint raises 10M to spread healthcare tech across Africa

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

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

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

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

Africa Roundup: Zimbabwes net blackout Partechs 143M fund Andelas 100M raise Flutterwaves pivot

African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect

Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa

Nigerias Autochek acquires Cheki Kenya and Uganda from ROAM Africa

Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to 143 million