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Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify

Mobility startup Plentywaka picks up 12M seed acquires Ghanas Stabus

Opontia gets 42M to buy more ecommerce brands in Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa

Could developing renewable energy microgrids make Energicity Africas utility of the future

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

Tiger Global leads 42M Series B in Nigerian creditled neobank FairMoney

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

SVBled 100M investment makes Chipper Cash Africas most valuable startup

As the global venture capital market slows Africa charts its own course

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

Nigerias Interswitch confirms 1B valuation after Visa investment

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

Nigerian edtech startup Teesas secures 16 million in preseed round to launch tutor marketplace expand in East Southern Francophone Africa in 2022

Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion

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

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

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

Fintech Farm nabs 74M to launch neobanks in Nigeria and other emerging markets

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

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

Africa Roundup: ToLet Acquires JumiaHouse NG Facebook announces NGHub Interswitch IPO Update

Nigerian businesses can now accept Apple Pay on Paystack

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

FSD Africa expands insurtech accelerator program to Ghana and Nigeria

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million

Mulberry the warranty service for direct to consumer brands approaches 10 million ARR

Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz

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

Africas ridehail markets are hot spots for startups and VC

Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene

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

MFS Africa raises additional equity and debt capital to take its Series C to 200M

Transsions Future Hub and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

Black Gen Z VCs are here and swinging for the fences

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

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID19

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

Nigerian digital freight provider MVX lands 13M to help shippers move cargoes faster

Trump to halt immigration from Africas top tech hub Nigeria

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

A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YCs winter 2022 Demo Day

MarketForce raises 40 million Series A introduces BNPL merchant stock financing

Nigerias StopRobbingUs campaign could spur tech advocacy group CEOs say

Interswitch to revive its Africa venture fund CEO confirms

Startups Weekly: Chinese investors double down on African startups

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

Chinas Transsion and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

Norrsken VCs and 30 unicorn founders set up 200M fund to back growthstage startups in Africa

MarketForce partners with Cellulant to expand in five new markets across Africa as it races to cover continent