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Googles Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Ugandas SafeBoda
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Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises 1M preseed for its readytoeat meals service
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Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce
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Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz
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Nigerias Paga acquires Apposit confirms Mexico and Ethiopia expansion
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Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene
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Kenyas Lami raises 18M to scale API insurance platform across Africa
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Kenyabased agritech Apollo raises 40 million in Softbankled round joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CDC
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Sim Shagayas uLesson African edtech startup raises 31M
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Africa Roundup: Jumias IPO DHL launches Africa eShop Cathays 168M VC fund ConnectMed acquired
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Only 2 of genomic material available for research comes from Africa 54gene wants to change that
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VCs set sights on African countries beyond the Big Four
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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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MFS Africa collects 100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region
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MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast
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Antler East Africa closes 135M fund to invest in earlystage startups
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Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya
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Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom
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Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali
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EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding
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Samasource raises 148M for global AI data biz driven from Africa
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TLcom and 4DX drive 131M seed round to scale Autocheks platform across Africa
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MAXng raises 7M round backed by Yamaha and pilots EVs in Nigeria
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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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Nigerias CcHub acquires Kenyas iHub to create mega Africa incubator
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Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa
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Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million
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Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 6M expands in Africa
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Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19
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Nigerias Grey raises 2M for crossborder payments play and regional expansion
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Kenyan B2B ecommerce platform Marketforce cut about 9 of staff in reorganization strategy
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Startups BRCK and Swvl partner on free WiFi for Kenyan ridehail buses
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Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19
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Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to 143 million
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The Sun Exchange raises 3M for crypto driven solar power in Africa
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TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut So Paulo and Lagos
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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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Kenyas Wapi Pay raises 22M preseed for crossborder payments between Africa and Asia
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Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Flutterwaves 35M and Sendys 20M
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Ugandan fintech Asaak raises 30million to support acquisition of motorbikes smartphones by taxi operators
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Metas NPE team takes a global focus with seedstage investments offices in emerging markets
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MKOPA raises 75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets
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Local venture capital fund formation is on the rise in Africa led by Nigeria
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Nigerias Autochek acquires Cheki Kenya and Uganda from ROAM Africa
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Norrsken Foundations hub opens in Rwanda to house 1000 entrepreneurs by next year
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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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Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech
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MallforAfrica goes global Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC France explains its 76M fund
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AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services