The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Fri, Jul 3
The Sh200 billion lands in the National Infrastructure Fund on Friday — a government account that already holds Sh103 billion from a previous sale and, so far, no visible infrastructure to show for it.
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The Sycamore detail is the one to sit with.
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The asymmetry in the Kenya deal is the thing that should stop you cold: five years of health funding in exchange for up to twenty-five years of patient data.
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LemFi's third acquisition in a year follows a deliberate pattern: buy the FCA licence along with the company, rather than spend years applying independently.
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The specific thing Kenya's High Court struck down matters more than the headline suggests.
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The Applied AI Lab in Accra — run jointly by Google and Novastar Ventures, a fund focused on African markets — pairs local founders directly with Google researchers and early access to frontier models. Applications close August 31. That's…
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Making NIMC the Root Certification Authority — the top of the chain that validates every digital certificate in Nigeria — is a genuinely bold architectural choice. Every secure transaction, every verified identity, every government service…
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Until 2023, Catalyst Fund gave African climate founders grant money — useful, but no skin in the game. Now it's taking equity stakes and backing 40 startups from pre-seed to Series A, with $30 million from IFC, Shell Foundation, and others…
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