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Identity verification company Youverify extends seed funding to 25M as it expands across Africa

African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect

Transsions Future Hub and Kenyas Wapi Capital partner on Africa fund

Naspers announces 300 million initiative to support startups and tech in South Africa

Zindi taps 12000 African data scientists for solutions to COVID19

Nigerias OnePipe raises 35M to double down on its embedded finance offering

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

BlackSkys latest satellites return images just 58 hours after SpaceX launch

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

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

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

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

3D Printing Africa: South Africas 3D Printing Sector

MallforAfrica and DHL launch MarketPlace Africa global ecommerce site

African tech took center stage in 2021

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

Naspers is in talks to invest in Southeast Asias Carousell

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

Naspers coleads 145M extension round in mobility startup WhereIsMyTransport

Naspers leads 11M investment in South African insurtech Naked

Backed by Schmidt Futures Cloudline raises 6M to take aerial autonomy green and mainstream

These startups are locating in SF and Africa to win in global fintech

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

Nigerian data analytics company Terragon acquires Asian mobile ad firm Bizense

Naspers Foundry is open for South African startup pitches CEO says

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

Zambian cardissuing startup Union54 raises 12M led by Tiger Global

Interswitch to revive its Africa venture fund CEO confirms

Zipline begins US medical delivery with UAV program honed in Africa

Nigeria is becoming Africas unofficial tech capital

South African crowdsolving startup Zindi building a community of data scientists and using AI to solve realworld problems

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

African countries need startup acts more than ever to support innovation

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

Egyptian fintech Sympl raises 6M for its save now pay later service

Swvls 100m acquisition of Smart Bus startup Zeelo is off amid tech stocks slump

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

What we learned from selling a blockchain service to African governments

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

African fintech firm Flutterwave launches SME ecommerce portal

South Africas DataProphet closes 10M to scale its AIasaservice platform for manufacturers

Africa Roundup: Visa connects to MPesa Flutterwave enters ecommerce

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

South African Defense Company Using Digital Manufacturing and 3D Printing to Build Surveillance and Attack Aircraft

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

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

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

Fidelity Visa and Kingsway back South African fintech JUMO in 120M round

2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs China goes digital Nigeria becomes fintech capital

Moderna says its making variantspecific COVID19 vaccines but its existing vaccine should still work