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

Reports say African startups raised recordsmashing 43B to 5B in 2021

Nigerias Autochek raises 34M for car sales and service platform

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

Nigerias Indicina raises 3M to help businesses offer credit to their customers at scale

ImaliPay gets 3M to offer financial services to underserved gig workers across Africa

Connecting African software developers with top tech companies nets Andela 100 million

Sokowatch closes 2 million seed round to modernize Africas B2B retail

Catalyst Fund gets 15M from JP Morgan UK Aid to back 30 EM fintech startups

Moroccos Chari valued at 100M in bridge round as it looks to pilot BNPL services

Nigerian fintech Hervest wants to bring financial inclusion to more African women

Visa partners with Paga on payments and fintech for Africa and abroad

Nigerias Kwik gets 2M to add financial services to its lastmile delivery offerings

Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africas new largest tech hub

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

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

Rensourcespinoff Sabi closes 6M bridge round expands B2B retail platform outside Nigeria

Nigerian B2B ecommerce platform Omnibiz raises millions to gain and retain retail customers

Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa

Facebook is launching political ad checks in Nigeria Ukraine EU and India in coming months

The latest list of YCbacked companies worth over 150M is the most geographically diverse yet

Nigerias Kippa gets 32M preseed for its small business finance management app

Meet the startups changing mobility for emerging middle classes

Tofino Capital reaches first close of 10M fund to back startups in frontier markets

Black Gen Z VCs are here and swinging for the fences

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

Nigerias SeamlessHR raises 10M to expand HR and payroll solutions across Africa

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

Nigerias YCbacked Chowdeck hopes to scale food delivery a notoriously tough market with 25M funding

Coldchain startup Figorr raises 15M backs the roll out of datadriven perishables insurance

Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on 20M raise and Africa growth

Why this Nigerian fintech startup is volunteering audited financials

IROKO cofounder Bastian Gotter raises 32M seed for new venture Bamba

Seven Africafocused startups present at Y Combinators Demo Day

SendSprint by exFlutterwave executive hits market with 5 flat fee for all international money transfers

Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya

Nigerias Etap gets 15M preseed to make buying car insurance easier

Nigerias CcHub acquires Kenyas iHub to create mega Africa incubator

Security lapse at South Africas LogBox exposed user accounts and medical data

Solar based ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria

Online real estate startup ToLet acquires Jumia House Nigeria to create PropertyProNg

Nigerian digital bank Yep raises 15M preseed for its financial super app play

Partnering with Visa emerging market lender Branch International raises 170 million

Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise 99M in VC

Daily Crunch: Atlantic Money wants to make international money transfers even cheaper than competitors

Nestcoin raises 645M preseed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

Daily Crunch: Brex says DoorDash is first of many new enterprise customers to come

Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify

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

Nigeria lifts ban on Twitter says the social media giant has met some conditions