FASA, the multi-donor fund-of-funds targeting Africa’s underserved agricultural SMEs, has made its first investment, committing $5m to Catalyst Fund, a…
Equity mega-rounds have all but vanished. In their place, credit facilities, securitisations and local-currency loans are rapidly reshaping how the…
The macroeconomic scorecard for African technology companies reached a stark divergence this month. By the end of May 2025, the…
Yoco, the Cape Town-based payments platform that serves more than 200,000 small merchants, has acquired Dyner.ai, a South African startup…
South Africa’s best‑known agricultural crowdfunding platform, Livestock Wealth, has been wound up by order of the Gauteng High Court, drawing…
While the spotlight often shines on headline-grabbing mega-rounds, the bedrock of Africa’s rapidly growing startup ecosystem lies in the consistent…
Sixteen months ago, Kabelo Mokoena* was on a flight to Lagos to interview the founder of a fintech startup that…
Egyptian healthtech Vezeeta will manage and operate a full medical building inside a new Cairo mixed-use development, a leap into…
French state-backed initiative Digital Africa is pooling resources with a consortium of major European and African investors to back early-stage…
Egyptian consumer credit startup Lucky has raised a $23m Series B funding round, comprising a mix of equity and debt,…
Last week, Africa’s most valuable fintech Flutterwave announced that it had obtained a microfinance bank (MfB) license from the Central…
Z.systems has closed a $1.65 million funding round led by Azur Innovation Fund, with renewed participation from MNF Ventures and…
Two years ago, the standard pitch for investing in an African startup carried a familiar set of assumptions: software scales…
Paris-based fintech infrastructure platform Kulipa has raised a $6.2 million seed round to expand its stablecoin-native card issuing network across…
Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable fintech, has acquired a microfinance bank (MfB) license from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), signalling…
African startups raised $554.5m in the first quarter of 2026 according to Launch Base Africa‘s data, marking an 8.2% decline…
Littlefish, a South African fintech building white-labelled merchant infrastructure for financial institutions, has raised a $9.5m Series A round. The…
Since July 22, numerous unauthorised exchange outlets have been closed after the military intelligence agency summoned currency dealers to address…
