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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 OladunniJuly 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 BabalolaJuly 24, 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 BabalolaJuly 21, 2025
Africa NewsAugust 10, 2024 Applications Now Open for the Second Cohort of Open Startup’s Grow Program. Open Startup has officially launched the second cohort of its investment byFatima Oladunni
