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Startup

29 January

Nigeria’s startup funding in 2025 was highly concentrated, with just 11 companies raising 82.9% of total capital as investors favored fintech, logistics, and energy startups with proven scale and revenue. ...

28 January

Merger and acquisition activity in African startups rose 72% in 2025 to a record 67 deals, led by fintech and driven by strategic consolidation, according to TechCabal’s SOTIA report. ...

26 January

African fintechs raised $1.4B in 2025, but just 5 companies captured 43% of the funding, highlighting extreme concentration and a struggling early-stage funding ecosystem. ...

19 January

Nigerian mobility startup MAX has secured $24 million in equity and debt funding to expand its electric vehicle fleet, battery-swapping infrastructure, and clean mobility operations across Africa. ...

8 December

Female-led African startups secured more than $45.4 million by September 2025, despite limited investor confidence and a shrinking funding landscape. Here are the women founders who raised $1 million and ...

5 December

As Africans sent $56 billion in remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, these seven remittance startups—LemFi, NALA, Africhange, Pesa, TapTap Send, Afriex, and Mukuru—are leading the way in fast, transparent, ...

5 December

African startups secured $162 million in November 2025, marking a 63% drop from October and signalling a slowdown in venture activity. South Africa led deal values, with SolarSaver topping the ...

24 November

At a Lagos roundtable, The New Practice (TNP) advised Nigerian startups to adopt debt financing as a disciplined, scalable growth strategy. Experts highlighted Payaza’s N40.37bn commercial paper success and the ...

19 November

Nigeria’s startups raised $93.4 million in October 2025, a 130.6% surge driven by Moniepoint’s $90 million round and rising early-stage investments across fintech, clean energy, agricult ...

17 November

TLP Advisory reveals that regulatory hurdles, currency mismatch, undervaluation concerns, and limited market liquidity keep Nigerian startups from listing on the NGX, despite the 2022 launch of the NGX Technology ...

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