500 Global’s Africa Partner Mareme Dieng Departs After Five Years, Leaving Gap in Firm’s Continental Strategy. The Senegalese investor's exit comes just over a year after her promotion to byBetty WangariDecember 3, 2025
Impact Investor I&P Closes €41M for Third Fund Targeting Africa’s ‘Missing Middle’ SMEs. Paris-based Investisseurs & Partenaires aims to bridge the financing gap for byBetty WangariDecember 2, 2025
Egypt Issues Its First VAT Guide and Declares Remote Tech Talent Exports Tax-Free — A Major Move as $4.8B in Tech Exports Hang in the Balance. After years of regulatory ambiguity that left service exporters trapped between byBolu BabalolaDecember 2, 2025
How Bokku Beat Shoprite: The Story of Nigeria’s Retail Revolution. A two-year-old startup with 124 stores is crushing a retail giant that operated byMuhammed MustaphaNovember 30, 2025
Africa NewsJune 17, 2024 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship Lands in Egypt. The Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship has expanded to Egypt following byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJune 15, 2024 Egyptian podcast producer, Potcast Productions, fuels growth with pre-seed funding round. Egypt-based podcast production company Potcast Productions has secured an byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJune 15, 2024 TymeBank seeks $150 million to join the unicorn club. South African fintech startup TymeBank is on the brink of a $150 million Series byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaJune 13, 2024 From Orile, Iganmu to Kyoto Japan, How Regxta won the fourth edition of the pitch2win competition. It was an electrifying atmosphere yesterday at the Muson Center, where Rukayat byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsJune 11, 2024 Egyptian fintech startup Sahl secures $6 million to become a one-stop shop for financial services. Salh, a fintech startup based in Cairo, has secured $6 million in combined seed byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsJune 7, 2024 LAfricaMobile raises $4.6M series A to scale across francophone Africa. Ivory Coast-based cloud communication startup LAfricaMobile has successfully byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJune 5, 2024 Egyptian startup Birdnest takes flight with pre-Series A funding. Egypt-based proptech startup Birdnest has closed an undisclosed pre-Series A byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsJune 2, 2024 Africa’s new accelerator, Accelerate Africa, selects its inaugural class of 10 promising ventures. Four months post-launch, Accelerate Africa, a budding accelerator program with byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 16 African Fintech Startups Selected for Visa’s Fintech Accelerator Program. Visa has announced the African startups chosen to participate in the second byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 Safaricom picks 9 Kenyan startups for M-Pesa Spark Accelerator. Nine early-stage Kenyan startups have been chosen to participate in the Spark byFatima Oladunni
