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| 03.08.2026 | AI-powered operating system Fincart receives $2.8 M to expedite regional growth | Fincart, the AI-powered operating system for e-commerce merchants, today announced the successful close of its oversubscribed seed funding round. This round was co-led by Launch Africa and Antler MENAP, with participation from Yango Venture... |
| 29.07.2026 | Egypt's Fincart Raises $2.8m to Expand E-Commerce Platform | Egyptian e-commerce technology startup Fincart has raised an oversubscribed $2.8 million Seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-powered merchant platform and expand across the Middle East and Africa.
The round was co-led... |
| 28.07.2026 | Botswana Tech Fund (BTF) first closes at $6.7 M | The Botswana Tech Fund (BTF), which aims to invest US$64 million in technology firms that support digital growth throughout Southern Africa, has reached a US$6.7 million first close.
The BTF was established in April with the goal of support... |
| 20.07.2026 | In 2026, Launch Africa Ventures closes fifteen new Fund II investments | One of the most active early-stage venture capital firms on the continent, Launch Africa Ventures (LA), closed 15 new investments in 2026. Putting money into
With more than 180 portfolio businesses spread across 25 countries across its two ... |
| 08.06.2026 | Africa: Yamify Gets Launch Africa Backing for AI Deployment Platform | Yamify secured funding from Launch Africa Ventures as part of its pre-seed round, giving the developer-first AI startup new capital to expand distribution.
The size of the investment was not disclosed. Yamify was founded by Luc Okalobé and ... |
| 15.12.2025 | African Fintech Startup Zazu Raises $1 Million Pre-Seed to Reinvent SME Banking Across Continent | Pan-African digital banking platform Zazu has raised US $1 million in a pre-seed funding round aimed at scaling its technology-enabled banking services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa, according to fintech sector... |
| 10.10.2025 | What do African investors really look for in a pitch deck in 2025? | These investors’ portfolios span an array of industries—from fintech, climate tech, gender-led, clean energy, food systems, cities, and creative Economy, BPO & logistics to health tech.
If you are familiar with African fundraising news,... |
| 16.09.2025 | Kredete Secures $22M to Reshape African Diaspora Finance with Stablecoin Credit Card | Kredete, a pioneering fintech, has secured $22 million in Series A funding. This capital fuels the launch of Africa's first stablecoin-backed credit card. The company aims to empower African immigrants globally. It provides essential credit... |
| 15.09.2025 | Kredete raises $22M to launch Africa’s first stablecoin-backed credit card | Kredete, a Nigerian fintech that helps African immigrants build credit and access financial services, has raised $22 million in Series A funding to launch Africa’s first stablecoin-backed credit card and expand its credit-building infrastru... |
| 11.09.2025 | Aspyre Foods taps duckweed for casein and RuBisCO: ‘We’re maximizing the biomass value’ | South African startup Aspyre Foods is building a platform it claims can turn duckweed into a biofactory for producing two highly functional food proteins: casein and RuBisCO.
While several startups are engineering plants to produce recombin... |
| 26.08.2025 | Yango montre ce qui est possible sur les marchés africains francophones | 26 août 2025
Welcome to The Next Wave: Francophone Africa, now a weekly newsletter providing insider analyses about Francophone Africa’s tech ecosystem. Each edition is bilingual: this newsletter is in French by default, but you can click t... |
| 14.08.2025 | What do investors want to see in African AI startups? | Every Thursday, Delve Into AI will provide nuanced insights on how the continent’s AI trajectory is shaping up. In this column, we examine how AI influences culture, policy, businesses, and vice versa. Read to get smarter about the people, ... |
| 09.07.2025 | Ghanaian invoice financing startup Liquify raises oversubscribed $1.5 M Seed round | In an effort to bridge the $120 billion African trade finance gap, Ghanaian startup Liquify, a digital invoice finance platform for African SME exporters who are stranded waiting 30 to 90 days to get paid, has raised an oversubscribed US$1.... |
| 08.07.2025 | Liquify, a Ghanaian fintech startup has raised $1.5 million in seed funding | Ghanaian fintech startup Liquify has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to revolutionize how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa access trade finance. The round was led by pan-African venture capital firm Launch Africa ... |
| 04.07.2025 | Fresh funding in hand, Complete Farmer eyes expansion of its ag marketplace across Africa | Making agriculture profitable is a herculean task in Africa. This is something Desmond Koney, CEO of Ghanaian agritech Complete Farmer, understands all too well.
Having grown up on a homestead where his father was a smallholder pineapple fa... |
| 09.06.2025 | Six founders ask investors questions about venture capital and investing | For many founders in emerging markets, venture capital can feel like a black box. Investor expectations are often opaque, and founders rarely get the chance to question the gatekeepers of capital.
More often than not, founders are in the ho... |
| 03.04.2025 | Navigating the African VC Landscape: Exits, Support, and Sectors to Watch | The African venture capital scene is a vibrant tapestry, woven with ambition, innovation, and a touch of uncertainty. As the continent's startups rise, so do the questions surrounding exits, support from venture capitalists (VCs), and the s... |
| 31.03.2025 | Ask an Investor: The path to exits, the support VCs provide, and Africa’s hottest sectors | Five weeks ago, we rebooted our Ask an Investor column, and in that time, we spoke to the heads of investment at Oui Capital, Antler Nigeria, Capria Africa, HoaQ, and Launch Africa. Scattered from Nairobi to Lagos, these fund managers told ... |
| 24.03.2025 | “Most African companies don’t need VC” – Launch Africa’s Uwem Uwemakpan | Launch Africa is arguably Africa’s most active early-stage investor. The firm started investing in African startups in 2020, and by the time it had finished deploying its $36.3 million fund, it had invested in 133 startups across 25 countri... |
| 20.12.2024 | The Rise of Innovative Biotech and Data Analytics in Healthcare | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, two companies stand out: Indapta Therapeutics and PBR Life Sciences. Both are pushing boundaries, but in different arenas. Indapta is diving deep into the world of cancer and autoimmune treatmen... |
| 20.12.2024 | Techstars-backed PBR Life Sciences raises $1 million pre-seed funding | PBR Life Sciences, a Techstars-backed healthcare data analytics company, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding. The company will use part of the funds to invest in AI infrastructure and expand into Ghana and Kenya.
The funding was raise... |
| 15.11.2024 | 86% of African Tech Founders Report Impact on Wellbeing – Yet 81% Enjoy the Journey | Share this:
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| 09.02.2023 | After a record 2022, 8 investors explain why it’s ‘still just Day 1’ for Africa’s startup ecosystem | Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups.
For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 billion, according to data from Pa... |
| 29.09.2022 | Data snapshot: Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo lead Africa agrifoodtech investment | Investments in African agrifoodtech startups reached record heights in 2021, according to AgFunder’s inaugural Africa-focused report in collaboration with BII and FMO.
But who were the key investors driving the $482.3 million invested in 20... |
| 28.09.2022 | Ivorian fintech Julaya gets $5M to become banking partner for businesses in Francophone Africa | Ivorian payments-led fintech startup Julaya has extended its pre-Series A round by $5 million. The company, which facilitates B2B payments for businesses in Francophone West Africa, mainly via mobile money channels, has raised a total of $7... |
| 13.08.2022 | Launch Africa ignites $2.5m Skrmiish seed round | Cape Town-based Launch Africa has made its first ever investment into a gaming-tech venture with Skrmiish, the world’s first mobile play-to-earn app. This, as Skrmiish begins to wrap up a $2.5 million series A funding round.
Founded in Sou... |
| 13.08.2022 | Launch Africa ignites $2.5m Skrmiish seed round | Cape Town-based Launch Africa has made its first ever investment into a gaming-tech venture with Skrmiish, the world’s first mobile play-to-earn app. This, as Skrmiish begins to wrap up a $2.5 million series A funding round.
Founded in Sout... |
| 08.08.2022 | Blockchain Founders Fund Backs Skrmiish to Be the Go-to Play-to-Earn App for Gamers Globally | Blockchain Founders Fund Backs Skrmiish to Be the Go-to Play-to-Earn App for Gamers Globally AFRICA, August 8, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Blockchain Founders Fund has partnered with Skrmiish, the world's first mobile Play-to-Earn app that e... |
| 14.06.2022 | Launch Africa, the VC firm that has backed over 100 startups, closes first fund at $36.3M | Pan-African venture capital fund Launch Africa Ventures today is announcing the close of its $36.3 million fund, which it has primarily used to invest in B2B and B2B2C startups across Africa. |
| 14.06.2022 | Africa: Launch Africa, the VC Firm That Has Backed Over 100 Startups, Closes First Fund At $36.3m | Pan-African venture capital fund Launch Africa Ventures today is announcing the close of its $36.3 million fund, which it has primarily used to invest in B2B and B2B2C startups across Africa.
In an interview with TechCrunch, managing partne... |
| 14.06.2022 | Launch Africa, the VC firm that has backed over 100 startups, closes first fund at $36.3M | Pan-African venture capital fund Launch Africa Ventures today is announcing the close of its $36.3 million fund, which it has primarily used to invest in B2B and B2B2C startups across Africa.
In an interview with TechCrunch, managing partne... |
| 11.03.2022 | Launch Africa invests in on-demand talent acquisition platform | The Insights By Experts founding team.
Pan-African venture capital (VC) firm Launch Africa has bought a stake in Homecoming Revolution’s talent-on-demand digital platform, Insights By Experts.
Established in 2003, Homecoming Revolution is a... |
| 11.03.2022 | Offering homestyle African cuisine, Kune is changing the face of Kenya’s food delivery sector | Nairobi is witnessing an explosion of last-mile food and grocery delivery. For employees in offices and families at home, ordering a meal has become commonplace.
One issue, however, is lack of choice. “People have been ordering fast food be... |
| 11.02.2022 | Zach George: From Wall Street to investing in African startups | 2010 was a watershed moment in football. For the first time, the World Cup was hosted by an African country. 3.2 billion people watched the matches from their homes while 3.18 million fans attended the matches live in South Africa—Zach Geor... |
| 07.01.2022 | Nigerian ethical credit-recovery fintech Bfree secures $1.7M, expands to Asia, Europe, South America and across Africa | Bfree, a Nigerian credit management fintech has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 million in a pre-Series A round, to tap the opportunities in emerging markets, where digital lending apps have recently sprung up in droves. |
| 03.11.2021 | Egyptian Bypa-ss raises $1m pre-seed funding to digitise health management | Bypa-ss, an Egyptian healthtech startup, has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding to ramp up its expansion effort.
The investment round saw participation from Magic Fund, Acuity Ventures, Launch Africa, Plug and Play, and other regional and... |
| 25.10.2021 | RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa | Research says that counterfeit medication is the cause of 1 million deaths per year. One-tenth of this number comes from Africa. Counterfeiting is hard to detect, investigate, quantify or stop. It is a global problem, with annual earnings f... |
| 25.10.2021 | Ivorian fintech Julaya raises $2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa | There are over 1 billion mobile money accounts globally. Africa leads the way in transaction value and volume thanks to M-Pesa, largely used in East Africa. Other regions across the continent are also growing fast. |
| 11.08.2021 | Perspectives on early stage venture capital in Africa | In 2020, tech startups in Africa raised over $1.5 billion in 400+ funding rounds, with a further $1 billion in M&A activity. Although the amount of capital deployed was down -30% compared to 2019, due to ticket sizes being slashed as Af... |
| 10.08.2021 | Nigerian eCommerce startup, Omnibiz, secures $3m seed to expand across West Africa | Share this article:
Nigeria-based Business to Business (B2B) eCommerce startup, Omnibiz has announced securing $3million in a seed round. It plans to expand into other cities in West Africa and participate in Seed Stars’ accelerator program... |
| 10.08.2021 | Launched in Nigeria and Afghanistan, Chekkit raises $500k to authenticate and track products globally | Counterfeit drugs are a global menace that kill over a million people annually. The World Health Organization reported in 2017 that 10% of all medicines in low-to-middle income countries are substandard or fake and Africa accounts for 42% o... |
| 10.08.2021 | Nigeria-based anti-counterfeiting startup, Chekkit raises $500k pre-seed funding | Share this article:
Nigeria-based anti-counterfeiting startup, Chekkit Technologies, has announced a $500,000 pre-seed round as it looks to expand its team and technological infrastructure.
As contained in its statement, it aims to “save mo... |
| 10.08.2021 | Chekkit Closes $500k Pre-seed Round | Chekkit Closes $500k Pre-seed Round To Save More Lives and Secure The Pharmaceutical & FMCG Industries |
| 05.08.2021 | MVX, Nigerian digital freight startup, secures $1.3m to tackle ocean freight challenges in Africa | Share this article:
On Thursday, July 5, 2021, Nigeria-based digital freight startup, MVX, announced a $1.3 million seed round to tackle the challenge of financing and booking freight operations in Africa. Investors in this round include Ke... |
| 28.07.2021 | Ivorian fintech Julaya raises $2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa | There are over 1 billion mobile money accounts globally. Africa leads the way in transaction value and volume thanks to M-Pesa, largely used in East Africa. Other regions across the continent are also growing fast. |
| 28.07.2021 | Franco-Ivorian fintech Julaya raises $2M to digitize business payments in West Africa | Julaya, a fintech startup based in France and Côte d’Ivoire, raised USD$2M pre-series A funding with business angels and venture capital funds to grow and expand its product in West Africa. The company operates in the B2B payments sector an... |
| 16.06.2021 | Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises $1M pre-seed for its ready-to-eat meals service | While there has been a wave of innovation in food tech worldwide, it’s still in early days for Africa. There are only a handful of African food-tech startups, and a year and a half’s worth of global pandemic has added a couple to that list.... |
| 09.06.2021 | 500 Startups Next Ecosystem Hub is Africa | Share this:
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| 14.05.2021 | Nigerian fintech BFREE raises a seed round to tackle rising consumer debt in Africa | Share this:
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| 16.04.2021 | Peach Payments eyes Africa expansion after funding round | Local fintech firm Peach Payments has received funding for an undisclosed amount in the latest round of investment in the business.
The funding round, says Peach Payments, was again led by Umkhathi Wethu Ventures (UW Ventures) in partnershi... |
| 01.04.2021 | PricePally raises six-figure pre-seed funding from VCs and Angels | Frankfurt (Germany) and Lagos (Nigeria), April 2021. GreenTec Capital is very pleased to share that PricePally has recently raised six-figure funding from Samurai Incubate, Launch Africa Ventures, and Angel Investors. The investment comes a... |
| 22.03.2021 | Afriex raises $1.2M seed to scale its payments and remittances platform across Africa | Sending money from the U.S. to Nigeria can be a painstaking process. For remittance platforms like Western Union, it will cost a transfer fee and take between one to five business days for money sent from a U.S. debit card to enter a Nigeri... |
| - | In brief: Launch Africa Ventures closes debut fund at $36.3m | - |
| - | Four charts that show African tech’s solid 2022 | Leo Komminoth
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The struggling global economy has affected global startup funding badly, with a noticeable year-on-year decline of 55% in Q3 2022 compared to Q3 2021.
However, African startup... |
| - | Launch Africa Ventures fecha primeiro fundo de US$ 36,3 milhões para apoiar startups africanas | O fundo de capital de risco Pan-Africano Launch Africa Ventures anunciou hoje o lançamento do seu fundo de US$ 36,3 milhões, que tem sido usado para investir em startups B2B e B2B2C em toda a África. Ao longo de sua jornada, o fundo investi... |
