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Africa NewsApril 16, 2026 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 Babalola
Africa NewsApril 14, 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 Babalola
Africa NewsApril 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 Wangari
News NigeriaApril 14, 2026 Google Gemma 4 Signals the Rise of On-Device AI — And Why Your Phone Is Now a Supercomputer On-device AI isn't a gimmick anymore — it's a privacy-first, offline-capable byFatima Oladunni
NewsApril 9, 2026 European VC Breega Bets on Nigerian Energy Startup PowerLabs in Latest Africa Push The Lagos-based startup is building the intelligence layer for Africa's byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 9, 2026 Renew Capital Bets on Embedded Finance for African SMEs With New Venture Lab Programme Announced at GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakech, the EmFi Series targets founders byBetty Wangari
Africa News NigeriaApril 9, 2026 Every Grant and Opportunity Open for African Founders This April — Ranked by Deadline From a $5,000 pitch competition closing this week to €200,000 in byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaApril 8, 2026 Innovate Pitch & Grant 2026 Returns With $5,000 in Funding for Africa’s Most Promising Startups Innovate has announced the return of its Pitch & Grant competition for 2026, byFatima Oladunni
NewsApril 7, 2026 Paga Promotes Opeyemi Oyinloye to Group COO and CEO of Paga Nigeria as Fintech Marks 17 Years The Nigerian payments company is restructuring its leadership as founder Tayo byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsApril 3, 2026 Safaricom Just Merged M-PESA and MySafaricom Into One App. The Super App Era in Africa Is Here. My OneApp is not a UI refresh byBetty Wangari
