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African fintech OPay is reportedly raising 400M at over 15B valuation

South African fintech startup Jumo raises second 50M VC round

Payment startup Chipper Cash raises 6M for Southern Africa expansion

African fintech startup Jumo raises 125M more to fund Asia expansion

Faster deals less diligence: The African startup market mirrors its larger rivals

Africas SureRemit joins the tokenized race to win the global remittance market

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

Zindi taps 12000 African data scientists for solutions to COVID19

Airbnb launches Adventures for tourists seeking more thrills

Blow for Flutterwave as Kenyan court declines request to withdraw case

Daily Crunch: Intel will reportedly buy cloudoptimization startup Granulate for 650M

Identity verification company Youverify extends seed funding to 25M as it expands across Africa

Cryptocurrency payments key to lowering crossborder remittance charges and boosting microwork uptake in Africa study shows

Facebook glitch hides users comments on pages draws mixed speculations

Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained

More job cuts loom as Sendy changes course in Nigeria

African crowdsolving startup Zindi scales 10000 data scientists

EdTech is having a renaissance powered by the emerging world

MFS Africa acquires GTP for 34M as it looks to issue prepaid cards to its clients

Africa Roundup: CcHubs iHub acquisition Andelas 50M run rate and layoffs Transsions IPO

Nigerias ThankUCash secures 53M to build infrastructure for cashback deals and BNPL services

Twiga lays off 33 of its staff disbands inhouse delivery and introduces logistics marketplace

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

Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

Ultra Red Technologies Builds 3D Printing Business in Nairobi Offering Design and Prototyping Working Toward Clean Water

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa

Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali

FSD Africa expands insurtech accelerator program to Ghana and Nigeria

Nigerian blockchain payments startup Bitmama closes 2M preseed as it scales to new markets

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

Egyptian ridesharing company Swvl plans to go public in a 15B SPAC merger

Kenya directs all banks to stop dealing with Chipper Cash Flutterwave saying they are unlicensed

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

Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad

Africa Roundup: CcHubs iHub acquisition Andelas 50M runrate and layoffs Transsions IPO

mPharma raises 35million in round participated by Tinder cofounders JAM fund Bharti executive

Kenya plans special startups employeeequity tax regime

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

Duplo digitizes payment flows for African B2B enterprises gets 43M seed funding

OkHi gets 15M seed extension to scale its smart address verification service across Africa

Africas top mobile phone seller Transsion lists in Chinese IPO

Worldcoin plans to resume iris scans in Kenya

Safaricom rolls out Bonga social networking platform to augment MPesa

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

African edtech startup uLesson raises 15M backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

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

BRCK acquires ISPs EveryLayer and Surf to boost Africas public WiFi

Nigerias Topship raises 25M from Flexport and YC to help merchants with international shipping

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 30M backed by Goldman Sachs

Kenyas insurtech Turaco maintains 1 billion user target as it raises 10M funding