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Kenya turns to its mobilemoney dominance to stem the spread of COVID19

Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC raises 12 million

Two years after a first close 500 Startups wraps its Middle East fund with 33 million

Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises 1M preseed for its readytoeat meals service

Only 2 of genomic material available for research comes from Africa 54gene wants to change that

TLcom and 4DX drive 131M seed round to scale Autocheks platform across Africa

CarePoint raises 10M to spread healthcare tech across Africa

Umba a digital bank for emerging markets raises 2M Seed funding to expand across Africa

Ivorian fintech Julaya raises 2M to digitize business payments in Francophone Africa

AWS partners with Kenyas Safaricom on cloud and consulting services

Local venture capital fund formation is on the rise in Africa led by Nigeria

Nigerias Gokada raises 53M round for its motorcycle ridehail biz

Ugandan fintech Asaak raises 30million to support acquisition of motorbikes smartphones by taxi operators

Africa Roundup: Trumps Nigeria ban Pagas acquisition and raises Flutterwaves 35M and Sendys 20M

Sudans first YCbacked startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth

Africa Roundup: Canal acquires ROK Flutterwave and Alipay partner OPay raises 50M

Nigerias Teesas secures 16M to expand across Africa and launch tutor marketplace

SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the worlds next bread basket one solar water pump at a time

Why COVID19 could delay Interswitch Africas next big IPO

Kenyan lowcost ISP Poa Internet secures 28 million in round led by AfDBbacked Africa50 plans to link region with cheap limitfree connectivity

Antler East Africa closes 135M fund to invest in earlystage startups

EV startup BasiGo debuts in Nairobi after 1 million preseed funding

Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups inside Ethiopias tech scene

Ugandan lender Asaak raises 30million to support acquisition of motorbikes smartphones by taxi operators

Kenyas Twiga raises 50M to scale food solutions across Africa

Africa Roundup: Africas tech ecosystem responds to COVID19

Kenyas AIfluence closes 1M for its AIpowered influencer marketing platform

Africa Roundup: TLcom closes 71M fund Jumo raises 55M AWS partners with Safaricom

Nigerian edtech startup Teesas secures 16 million in preseed round to launch tutor marketplace expand in East Southern Francophone Africa in 2022

Nigerian mobilitytech startup MAX bags 31 million in Series B round set to expand across Africa build EV infrastructure

MallforAfrica goes global Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC France explains its 76M fund

MoneyHash gets 3M to build a superAPI for payment operations in Africa Mideast

Sim Shagayas uLesson African edtech startup raises 31M

Africa Roundup: Jumias IPO DHL launches Africa eShop Cathays 168M VC fund ConnectMed acquired

BuffaloGrid and Techfugees launch education solar charging initiative for refugees aim to raise 3M

African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors

Startups BRCK and Swvl partner on free WiFi for Kenyan ridehail buses

Kenyan telco Safaricoms Alpha incubator faces uncertain future

Visa and Kenyas Safaricom partner on MPesa payments and tech

Drone delivery startup Zipline launches UAV medical program in Ghana

TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield is coming soon to Beirut So Paolo and Lagos

Partech is doubling the size of its African venture fund to 143 million

Daily Crunch: 2 months after launching So Paulobased payments startup Yuno raises 10M

Sokowatch closes 2 million seed round to modernize Africas B2B retail

A snapshot of the leading startups in Africas top VC markets

Goldman backed ventures Jumia and Twiga partner on produce in Kenya

Nigerias Helium Health raises 10M Series A for Africa expansion

Africa Roundup: DHL invests in MallforAfrica Zipline launches in US Novastar raises 200M

MKOPA raises 75M as it clocks 2 million customers across four African markets

MFS Africa collects 100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region