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Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali
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Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya
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Kenyabased agritech Apollo raises 40 million in Softbankled round joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CDC
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Umba a digital bank for emerging markets raises 2M Seed funding to expand across Africa
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Kenya turns to its mobilemoney dominance to stem the spread of COVID19
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The Sun Exchange raises 3M for crypto driven solar power in Africa
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Africa Roundup: Zimbabwes net blackout Partechs 143M fund Andelas 100M raise Flutterwaves pivot
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MFS Africa collects 100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region
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Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion
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Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom
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Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Flutterwaves 35M and Sendys 20M
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Kenyas Lami raises 18M to scale API insurance platform across Africa
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Why COVID19 could delay Interswitch Africas next big IPO
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Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M
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AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services
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Kenyas AIfluence closes 1M for its AIpowered influencer marketing platform
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Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19
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Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises 1M preseed for its readytoeat meals service
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Novastar Ventures becomes 200M African VC fund after 108M raise
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Nigerias Grey raises 2M for crossborder payments play and regional expansion
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Ivorian fintech Julaya raises 2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa
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Kenyan B2B ecommerce platform Marketforce cut about 9 of staff in reorganization strategy
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Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz
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Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to 143 million
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Sokowatch closes 2 million seed round to modernize Africas B2B retail
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SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat
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MAXng raises 7M round backed by Yamaha and pilots EVs in Nigeria
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BuffaloGrid and Techfugees launch education solar charging initiative for refugees aim to raise 3M
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TLcom and 4DX drive 131M seed round to scale Autocheks platform across Africa
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Sudans first YCbacked startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth
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Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce
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Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene
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CarePoint raises 10M to spread healthcare tech across Africa
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Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19
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Daily Crunch: 2 months after launching So Paulobased payments startup Yuno raises 10M
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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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Local venture capital fund formation is on the rise in Africa led by Nigeria
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Kenyan fintech Asilimia raises 2 million in a preseed round plans to extend loans to MSMEs and expand in East Africa
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Startups BRCK and Swvl partner on free WiFi for Kenyan ridehail buses
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MallforAfrica goes global Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC France explains its 76M fund
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Antler East Africa closes 135M fund to invest in earlystage startups
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Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 6M expands in Africa
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Norrsken Foundations hub opens in Rwanda to house 1000 entrepreneurs by next year
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Ugandan fintech Asaak raises 30million to support acquisition of motorbikes smartphones by taxi operators
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Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech
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African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors
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Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa
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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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Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19
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Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million