Cape Town’s AI Diagnostics Snaps Up R85M to Bring Its AI Stethoscope to African Clinics The pre-Series A round — worth roughly $4 byBolu BabalolaApril 16, 2026
Storipod secures digital rights to Chimamanda & Top African Authors in new partnership with Narrative Landscape Press In a move that could reshape how African literature is distributed and consumed byGuest PostApril 15, 2026
Ghana’s GIP Raises $20M From Norfund and Axis Pension to Scale SME Financing Growth Investment Partners (GIP), the Accra-based SME financing platform seeded byBolu BabalolaApril 14, 2026
Morocco’s $270M Startup War Chest Has Nine Fund Managers. Here’s Who Got the Mandate. Morocco's Mohammed VI Investment Fund has named nine venture capital firms to byBetty WangariApril 14, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 24, 2026 Littlefish Raises $9.5M to Sell Infrastructure to Banks Instead of Competing With Them—And That Might Be the Smarter Play South African fintech Littlefish just raised $9 byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMarch 18, 2026 BII Invests $15M in Starsight Energy: Why Mezzanine Debt for Nigerian Solar Companies Signals That Clean Energy Financing Is Finally Maturing Beyond Donor Grants On March 16, 2026, British International Investment committed $15 million in byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 18, 2026 Windhoek Launches Accelerate36: Can Namibia Build Africa’s Next Startup Hub By Listing Founders on the Stock Exchange? On March 17, 2026, Namibia unveiled Accelerate36—an ambitious initiative to byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMarch 17, 2026 EIB Commits €40M to Speedinvest’s €200M Africa Fund: Why Vienna Becoming a New Fundraising Corridor Matters More Than the Money On March 16, 2026, EIB Global committed €40 million to Speedinvest's first byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMarch 11, 2026 South Africa’s Draft AI Policy Expected to Be Gazetted This Month: The Middle Road Between EU Over-Regulation and India’s Hands-Off Approach After two years of deliberation, South Africa's Draft National AI Policy is byBetty Wangari
Africa News NigeriaMarch 11, 2026 CcHUB’s 2025 Impact Report: 3,312 African Startups Backed, $4.18M Deployed. Most African tech hubs talk about supporting startups byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 9, 2026 Rwanda Claimed It Became Africa’s First TikTok Monetization Market. Then the Government Said It Didn’t. The Real Story Is More Complicated When Bruce Melodie asked President Kagame to help unlock TikTok earnings at the byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMarch 6, 2026 Francophone Africa’s VC Awakening: How AfDB’s €6.5M Saviu Fund Is Shifting the Power Map West and Central For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMarch 4, 2026 Big Tech Must Pay Up: ECOWAS’ Emerging Strategy to Force Fair Compensation for African News in the AI Training Era While OpenAI pays Western publishers $1-5M annually for training data, African byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 2, 2026 MTN Ghana Just Became Africa’s Third Most Important Telecom Market — And It’s Betting $1.1 Billion That AI and Mobile Money Will Keep It There After South Africa and Nigeria, Ghana is now MTN Group's third "major byBolu Babalola
