EU-Backed Anara Capital Closes $48m to Fund North African Social Impact Startups – Launch Base Africa
Anara Impact Capital has pulled in $48m of a $50m target for its first fund, giving the venture capital firm…
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E-Mobility, Stablecoins, and DFI Retreat to Debt: African Funding Themes Take Shape in 2026 – Launch Base Africa
A surge of capital into electric vehicles, the arrival of crypto‑native stablecoin investors, and a sharp pivot by development finance…
Catalyst Fund Hits $30 Million Milestone for African Climate Tech after FASA Injection – Launch Base Africa
FASA, the multi-donor fund-of-funds targeting Africa’s underserved agricultural SMEs, has made its first investment, committing $5m to Catalyst Fund, a…
Nearly 80% of African Startup Funding in May Was Debt – Launch Base Africa
Equity mega-rounds have all but vanished. In their place, credit facilities, securitisations and local-currency loans are rapidly reshaping how the…
The Elite Funnel: Why African Tech’s New Financing Mix Signals a Hollowing of the Core – Launch Base Africa
The macroeconomic scorecard for African technology companies reached a stark divergence this month. By the end of May 2025, the…
South African Fintech Flagship Yoco Buys Restaurant Software Platform Dyner.ai – Launch Base Africa
Yoco, the Cape Town-based payments platform that serves more than 200,000 small merchants, has acquired Dyner.ai, a South African startup…
Agri-Fintech Startup Livestock Wealth Placed Under Liquidation After Failed Rescue Bid – Launch Base Africa
South Africa’s best‑known agricultural crowdfunding platform, Livestock Wealth, has been wound up by order of the Gauteng High Court, drawing…
African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals – Launch Base Africa
While the spotlight often shines on headline-grabbing mega-rounds, the bedrock of Africa’s rapidly growing startup ecosystem lies in the consistent…
The Ghostwriters of Africa’s Tech Boom – Launch Base Africa
Sixteen months ago, Kabelo Mokoena* was on a flight to Lagos to interview the founder of a fintech startup that…
78% Below Cost: The Unforgiving Math Behind Digital Health Startup Vezeeta’s Pivot to Bricks and Mortar – Launch Base Africa
Egyptian healthtech Vezeeta will manage and operate a full medical building inside a new Cairo mixed-use development, a leap into…
Europe’s Investors Rally Behind New Push to Fund Africa’s AI Startups – Launch Base Africa
French state-backed initiative Digital Africa is pooling resources with a consortium of major European and African investors to back early-stage…
Egyptian Fintech Lucky Hits Profitability, Raises $23m Series B for North African Expansion – Launch Base Africa
Egyptian consumer credit startup Lucky has raised a $23m Series B funding round, comprising a mix of equity and debt,…
The Hidden Limits of Flutterwave’s ‘New’ Bank – Launch Base Africa
Last week, Africa’s most valuable fintech Flutterwave announced that it had obtained a microfinance bank (MfB) license from the Central…
Morocco’s Hanout Wars: Three Startups, $10m, and One Corner Shop – Launch Base Africa
Z.systems has closed a $1.65 million funding round led by Azur Innovation Fund, with renewed participation from MNF Ventures and…
Five Brutal Truths About African Tech in Q1 2026 – Launch Base Africa
Two years ago, the standard pitch for investing in an African startup carried a familiar set of assumptions: software scales…
Flourish Ventures Backs Flutterwave Stablecoin Partner Kulipa in $6.2m Seed Round – Launch Base Africa
Paris-based fintech infrastructure platform Kulipa has raised a $6.2 million seed round to expand its stablecoin-native card issuing network across…
Fintech Unicorn Flutterwave Lands Banking License to Take on Nigeria’s Digital Incumbents – Launch Base Africa
Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable fintech, has acquired a microfinance bank (MfB) license from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), signalling…
Africa’s Most Active Startup Investors in Q1 2026 — and Where They Put Their Money – Launch Base Africa
African startups raised $554.5m in the first quarter of 2026 according to Launch Base Africa‘s data, marking an 8.2% decline…