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The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.

Thu, Oct 1

Last-Mile Commerce: $308 million taught us that cheap customers aren't the same as profitable ones

Copia and Twiga raised over $300 million combined on a genuinely compelling idea: bring modern commerce to the Kenyans that urban e-commerce ignores.

Airtel Money IPO: $800 million raised, zero dollars returning to Africa

The structure of this IPO deserves more attention than the valuation.

Kenya's Lending Licences: the court ruling made this whole wave inevitable

281 licensed lenders sounds like a regulator finally in control of its market.

Paymob: one licence did all of this

Twenty thousand merchants onboarded across the Gulf in roughly eight months — that's the number sitting behind this raise.

MTN's Legal Exposure: the discovery phase is where the real story begins

Until now, MTN could argue these cases were procedural — and technically, it was right. A motion-to-dismiss ruling doesn't find guilt; it just decides whether a claim is worth hearing.

Capitec: when the side business stops being a side business

Selling prepaid airtime and data doesn't sound like a bank's core job. But Capitec's value-added services arm — airtime, electricity, money transfers, mobile connectivity — now generates nearly as much profit as the personal banking…

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