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Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa

Nigerias Rensource raises 20M to power African markets by solar

Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment

Asset financiers to the rescue as Bolt plans to signup 200000 new drivers in Africa to meet growing demand for ridehailing services

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

Nigerias CredPal secures 15M in debt and equity to scale its BNPL product across Africa

African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises 30M backed by Jeff Bezos

African financial technology startups move beyond payment services

Sokowatch rebrands to Wasoko as it raises 125M Series B from Tiger Global and Avenir

a16z Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in 20M round

Only 2 of genomic material available for research comes from Africa 54gene wants to change that

These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming coinvestors

Alerzo raises 105M Series A to bring Nigerias informal retail sector online

How Adia Sowho helped steer Thrive Agric through the pandemic crisis

In Nigeria PalmPay waives fees and creates 100M COVID19 payout fund

Meet Paysail the startup making B2B payments faster using crypto

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

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

Elephab Aims to Become Nigerias Primary Supplier of 3D Printed Parts

Solarbased ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria

African genomics startup 54gene raises 15M led by Adjuvant Capital

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

Andela CEO confirms staff cuts as layoffs hit African tech

Kenyan BNPL startup Lipa Later eyes more African markets after raising 12 million

Flutterwave acquires Disha a creator platform that planned to shutter in February

Kenyas Apollo Agriculture raises 6M Series A led by Anthemis

Paystack expands to South Africa seven months after Stripe acquisition

African fintech Flutterwave triples valuation to over 3B after 250M Series D

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

Update on Nigerian fintech firm Interswitch and its speculative IPO

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

Chinas Transsion and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

MallforAfrica goes global Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC France explains its 76M fund

Jumia reports 30 growth in value of goods sold on its platform during Black Friday season this year

Nigerias YCbacked Remedial Health raises 44M seed funding

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

Techstars CEO Malle Gavet outlines the accelerators newest program in Africa

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

Nigerian B2B ecommerce startup Alerzo cuts 15 of fulltime staff in second round of layoffs

Digital bank Umba raises 15M plans to expand into three new African markets

African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth spurring a 7M investment initiative

Mobility startup Plentywaka picks up 12M seed acquires Ghanas Stabus

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

The Sun Exchange raises 3M for crypto driven solar power in Africa

Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises 12M led by Tiger Global

Earnipay raises 4M to help employees in Nigeria get faster access to their salaries

Partnering with Visa emerging market lender Branch International raises 170 million

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

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

Odyssey Energy Solutions continues quest to electrify developing economies with 54M seed