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Nigeria is becoming Africas unofficial tech capital

TradeDepot raises 110M from IFC Novastar to extend BNPL service to merchants across Africa

New South African partnership gets 3M launches telehealth product

Google sets up 50M fund to invest in African startups

Nigerias Gloong drops consumer ecommerce pivots to eprocurement

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

COVID19 and Trump visa ban leave South Africa biotech startup in limbo as it plots move to Seattle

Zindi rallies Africas data scientists to crowdsolve local problems

South African SME finance startup Lulalend raises 65M Series A

South Africas RecoMed raises 15M to scale its online healthcare marketplace

Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises 8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

African fintech firm Flutterwave raises 35M partners with Worldpay

South Africas edtech FoondaMate eyes speedy takeoff after 2M funding

Zambian cardissuing startup Union54 raises 12M led by Tiger Global

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

Microsofts South African data centers are now open for Azure business

Interswitch to revive its Africa venture fund CEO confirms

African edtech startup uLesson raises 15M backed by Nielsen Ventures and Tencent

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

These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming coinvestors

South Africa: Research in 3D Printing at VUT for Prosthetics DfAM

YCbacked Namibian startup JABU gets 32M for its B2B ecommerce and retail play

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

Days after pledging to expand internet Ethiopias government shuts it off

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

Casava gets 4M preseed to make insurance affordable and accessible to Nigerians

South Africas Envisionit Deep AI gets 165M to expand access to medical imaging

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

South Africas NFTfi raises 5M so people can use their NFTs as collateral for loans

Did African startups raise 496M 1B or 2B in 2019

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

MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast

Churpy raises 1 million to help enterprises reconcile and manage payments across Africa

Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in 60 markets

HealthLeap raises 11M preseed to reduce malnutrition in hospitals with clinical AI assistant

Mass transit group Swvl confirms estimated 100M acquisition of UK startup Zeelo

South Africas Talk360 raises 4M to build single payment platform for Africa

3D Scanning Helps Crabby Scientists Gather Data

Clickatell raises 91M to scale its chat commerce platform and US expansion

Daily Crunch: After 16 months on the job Bettercom CTO Diane Yu steps down

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

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

UK Fintech startup Leatherback raises 10M for its crossborder payments led by ZedCrest

African VC TLcom Capital invests 5M in Nigerian data analytics firm Terragon Group

Africa Roundup: Jumia files for IPO OneFi acquires Amplify FlexClub expands in Mexico

TechCrunch roundup: Usagebased billing web3 fundraising Serena Williams next act

South African startup Qwili gets 12M to scale its app and lowcost NFCenabled smartphone

Africa Roundup: Nigerian fintech gets 360M mints unicorn draws Chinese VC

How a Ugandan prince and a crypto startup are planning an African revolution

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