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Nigeria Startup Equity Funding Crashes 96% in July as Investors Retreat

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Nigeria-specific startup funding data shows a 96 percent decline in July 2026 compared with the prior period, providing country-level granularity to the continent-wide equity funding contraction reported earlier this week. The figure represents the starkest single-market data point yet in Africa's ongoing investor drought.

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Nigeria’s startup funding crashes 96% in July as big investors stay away · nairametrics.com · T2

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Nigeria Startup Funding Crashes 96%
Country-level data confirms Nigeria's share of Africa's July startup funding collapsed 96%, sharpening the investor drought signal within the continent-wide equity funding decline.
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