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 News StartupFebruary 26, 2026 Ghana’s Fido Just Raised $5.5M to Prove AI Can Underwrite Africa’s ‘Unbankable’ — Without a Credit Score in Sight With over 1 million customers, $500 million disbursed, and a proprietary AI byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 25, 2026 Spiro Just Raised $50M in Debt to Flood Africa With Electric Motorcycles. The Real Question: Can Battery Swaps Actually Scale? With 80,000 e-bikes deployed, 30 million battery swaps completed, and $230 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Morocco’s WafR Just Raised $4M to Turn 100,000 Corner Stores Into Digital Banks. Here’s Why That Actually Works With 20,000 neighborhood shops already processing mobile top-ups, bill payments, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Wasoko-MaxAB Is Quietly Purging Its Founder DNA — And Betting Everything on Fintech A year after Africa's biggest B2B merger, the growth-at-all-costs founders are byBetty Wangari
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 23, 2026 Your February Funding Cheat Sheet: 13 Accelerators African Startups Can Still Apply To Before March From Tony Elumelu's $5K grants to Google's $350K cloud credits, here's every byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 20, 2026 Nairobi’s Stock Exchange Is Finally Building a Tech Board. Can It Compete With Johannesburg — Or Will It Join Nigeria’s Zero-IPO Club? After decades as a home for banks, telcos, and brewers, the NSE is creating a byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsFebruary 20, 2026 Anthropic Just Signed Its First African Government Deal — And Rwanda Is Betting Its Digital Future On It In a three-year MOU covering health, education, and public services, Rwanda byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 South Africa’s Araxi Just Dropped R1 Billion on Pay@ — And It’s a Bet on the End of Fragmentation In the biggest payments consolidation deal South Africa has seen in years, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 Gabon Just Flipped the Kill Switch on Social Media — Indefinitely. Here’s What That Actually Costs. The Central African nation joins a growing list of governments using internet byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 Dutch Government Bets $3M on Female-Led African Fintech Fund — In a Market Where Women Get Just 10% of VC Dollars First Circle Capital's DGGF partnership is part of a $30 million fundraise byBolu Babalola
