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News NigeriaJuly 24, 2025 54 Collective Shuts Down After Court Orders Liquidation Over $106M Mastercard Foundation Grant Dispute. 54 Collective, the venture firm formerly known as Founders Factory Africa, has byBolu Babalola
News Nigeria StartupJuly 24, 2025 Africa’s First Digital SEZ Launches Full-Stack AI Growth Zone to Bridge Continental Infrastructure Gap. Itana aims to keep African AI talent from relying on expensive foreign GPU byFatima Oladunni
Africa News StartupJuly 24, 2025 Egyptian Fintech Flend Raises $3M Seed Round to Digitize SME Lending Across MENA Egyptian digital SME lending platform Flend has closed a $3 million seed funding byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupJuly 21, 2025 Moroccan superapp ORA raises $7.5M Series A to digitize North Africa’s cash-heavy economy. Morocco-based superapp ORA Technologies has closed a $7 byBolu Babalola
News Nigeria StartupJuly 21, 2025 Nigerian healthtech startup NucleusIS rebrands as RIGO, targets Africa’s $100B+ healthcare market. Nigerian e-health startup NucleusIS has undergone a major transformation, byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaJuly 18, 2025 Microsoft Appoints Olatomiwa Williams as Chief Growth & AI Officer for MEA Growth Markets. Microsoft has unveiled strategic leadership transitions in its Middle East and byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaJuly 16, 2025 From Lagos to Dubai: How Nigeria’s GITEX Global Partnership is Launching 300 Startups into the Stratosphere. GITEX Global, one of the world’s largest platforms for technology and byFatima Oladunni
News Nigeria StartupJuly 15, 2025 Benue’s Digital Awakening: How Nigeria’s Food Basket is Becoming a Tech Hub. In the heart of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where the Benue River winds through byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJuly 15, 2025 Smart Africa’s Bold Gambit: Uniting 11 Nations to Build the Continent’s First Cross-Border Data Highway. Picture this: a Nigerian entrepreneur wanting to expand their fintech startup to byBolu Babalola
News Nigeria StartupJuly 11, 2025 MTN Nigeria Launches Pan-African “Cloud Accelerator” to Empower Startup Ecosystems. MTN Nigeria, Africa’s telecommunications giant, just launched what might byFatima Oladunni
