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

Nigerian data analytics company Terragon acquires Asian mobile ad firm Bizense

Masa Finance gets 35M preseed to build its decentralized credit protocol

Flutterwave and Visa launch African consumer payment service GetBarter

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

FSD Africa expands insurtech accelerator program to Ghana and Nigeria

Black Gen Z VCs are here and swinging for the fences

What we learned from selling a blockchain service to African governments

Ghanaian fintech Dash raises 328M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

African payment startup Chipper Cash raises 138M Series A

Nigerias internet regulator releases draft to regulate Google Facebook TikTok and others

Tiger Global and Greycroft back Nigerian investment app Bamboo in 15M round

Meet Paysail the startup making B2B payments faster using crypto

Nigerias Grey raises 2M for crossborder payments play and regional expansion

Diving deep into Africas blossoming tech scene

Nigerias AltSchool raises 1M preseed to build an alternative school for Africans

What we know and dont about Goldman Sachs Africa VC investing

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

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

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

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

Paystack expands to South Africa seven months after Stripe acquisition

Extra Crunch roundup: Chinas new data privacy law fractional farming debt vs equity

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao talks regulation and platforms activities in Africa

Stitch gets a 2M seed extension hires Benjamin Dada to lead Nigerian expansion

Operas Africa fintech startup OPay gains 120M from Chinese investors

Venture studio Adanian Labs fuels startup growth in Africa

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

What is Andela the Africa tech talent accelerator

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

PalmPay raised 100M Series A last August claims to have 5 million users

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

Eden Life raises 14M seed to provide home services to busy Africans

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

Africa has another unicorn as Chipper Cash raises 100M Series C led by SVB Capital

Norebase raises 1M to allow companies start scale and operate in any African country

Akowe wants to fix Africas broken certificate system with blockchain

USbased fintech Umba buys majority stake in Kenyas Daraja microfinance bank

Tiger Global backs African fintech Mono in 15M Series A round

Namibian B2B ecommerce retail platform JABU raises 15M led by Tiger Global

How Adia Sowho helped steer Thrive Agric through the pandemic crisis

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

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

Nigerias Gloong drops consumer ecommerce pivots to eprocurement

Nigerian fintech Okra raises 35M backed by Accenture Ventures and Susa Ventures

Ivorian startup Afrikrea partners with DHL and Visa to launch SaaS ecommerce platform ANKA

African fintech firm Flutterwave raises 35M partners with Worldpay

Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad

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

Sim Shagayas uLesson African edtech startup raises 31M