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Cathay Capital and AfricInvest to raise 168M Africa VC fund

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

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

South Africas FlexClub raises 12M partners with Uber Mexico

Google opens product development center in Nairobi the first in Africa

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

SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa

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

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

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

Sokowatch raises 14M to digitize Africas informal B2B supplychain

TLcom Capital closes 71M Africa fund with plans to back 12 startups

CcHub funds tech to curb COVID19 on concerns of an Africa outbreak

Nigerias Autochek raises 34M for car sales and service platform

BRCK acquires ISPs EveryLayer and Surf to boost Africas public WiFi

Africa Roundup: Goldman leads 30M Twiga raise China grows tech influence Jumia weathers lockupexpiry

SF based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria

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

The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to radical courage with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya

EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding

Breaking down Frances new 76M Africa startup fund

Finclusion raises 20M to build out creditled neobank offering across Africa

Google opens product development center in Nairobi its first in Africa

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

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

Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million

Kenyas Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after 30M raise led by Goldman

Africas ridehail markets are hot spots for startups and VC

Chinas growing digital influence in Africa

BasiGo secures 43 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

Into Africa: tech leaders weigh in on Jack Dorseys planned move to the continent

Kenyas Apollo Agriculture raises 6M Series A led by Anthemis

Companybuilder Antler passes 75M raised after investment from Schroders and Ferd

Maramoja has a different take on the ridehailing market in Africa

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

Kune Food shuts down barely a year after starting Kenya operations

Startup incubator Nailab invests 25K in East African startups

African ecommerce startup Jumias shares open at 1450 in NYSE IPO

Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa

These startups are locating in SF and Africa to win in global fintech

African payment startup Chipper Cash raises 138M Series A

Thunes raises 10M to make financial services more accessible in emerging markets

Nigerias CcHub acquires Kenyas iHub to create mega Africa incubator

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises 6M expands in Africa

Kenya turns to MPesa mobilemoney to stem the spread of COVID19

Partnering with Visa emerging market lender Branch International raises 170 million

Chipper Cash convinces Joe Montana to invest in African fintech