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Kigali Startup Cup 2026
USD 10 k
OACPS-EU Research & Innovation Award
EUR 25 k
Kifiya Digital Ethiopia Challenge
USD 20 k
MEST Africa Challenge 2026
USD 50 k
Falling Walls Lab Africa 2026
UN-Habitat Youth 2030 Cities Challenge
USD 20 k
Deal Room
Latest tracked deals
317 funding rounds, USD 16.9 bn of disclosed capital across the 316 rounds where the amount is known. Every row shows its real announced date.
| Company | Stage | Amount | Country | Lead investor | Announced |
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| Sun King | Debt | USD 260 mn |
Kenya
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BeyondNetZero | Mar 2025 |
| Gozem | Series B | USD 30 mn |
Togo
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Partech Africa | Jan 2025 |
| LemFi | Series A | USD 53 mn |
Nigeria
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Highland Europe | Jan 2025 |
| Naked Insurance | Series B | USD 38 mn |
South Africa
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IFC | Jan 2025 |
| TymeBank | Series D | USD 250 mn |
South Africa
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Nubank | Dec 2024 |
| Watu Credit | Debt | USD 60 mn |
Kenya
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1 investor, no lead disclosed | Sep 2024 |
| BasiGo | Series A | USD 42 mn |
Kenya
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Africa50 | Aug 2024 |
| d.light | Debt | USD 176 mn |
Kenya
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African Frontier Capital | Jul 2024 |
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Research and analysis
Clean Cooking in Africa 2026: The 900 Million Access Gap and the Slow Transition From Wood to Clean Fuels
Approximately 900 million Africans lack access to clean cooking fuels, relying on wood, charcoal, kerosene, or other traditional fuels with severe health, environmental, and social consequences. Clean cooking is one of Mission 300's explicit priority areas. This report maps the scale of the problem, the operators working on the transition, and the structural conditions that have made clean cooking one of the slowest-moving components of African energy access.
African Wealthtech Needs to Admit It Is a Currency Hedge, Not a Wealth Builder
How to Price and Structure B2B Supply Chain Finance in African Markets
The African EdTech Adult Learning Pivot 2026: Why the Sector Is Abandoning Children for Adults and What It Means
Julaya: The BCEAO-Licensed B2B Payment Platform Rebuilding Francophone West African Finance
African Warehousing and Fulfillment Infrastructure 2026: The Grade A Shortage, the Industrial Park Push, and the E-commerce Fulfillment Layer
Signals
What moved recently
Published opportunities, editorial and tracked deals in one stream. Every item carries its own real date.
- 20 Jun 2026 Grant Global Innovation Fund
- 20 Jun 2026 Grant GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience
- 20 Jun 2026 Grant Orange Corners Innovation Fund
- 29 Mar 2026 Analysis African Wealthtech Needs to Admit It Is a Currency Hedge, Not a Wealth Builder 10 min read
- 25 Mar 2026 Analysis Julaya: The BCEAO-Licensed B2B Payment Platform Rebuilding Francophone West African Finance 16 min read
- 22 Mar 2026 Analysis Mobile Money Agent Economics Are Quietly Breaking 10 min read
- 15 Mar 2026 Analysis Yellow Card: Building the B2B Stablecoin Infrastructure Layer for African Corporates 16 min read
- 1 Mar 2025 Deal Sun King raises USD 260 mn in a Debt round Kenya
Funding
Grants and competitions
Amounts are shown in the currency they were awarded in, never converted.
GBP 5 mn
Energy Catalyst Round 11 2026 (Innovate UK)
USD 10 k
Standard Chartered Women in Tech Accelerator 2026
USD 1 mn
Startup World Cup Lagos 2026
USD 273 k
Climate Startup Challenge West Africa 2026
CHF 500 k
WFF Startup Innovation Awards 2026
USD 10 k
WFF Startup Innovation Awards 2026
Capital
Capital and institutions
The investors most active across the rounds we track, by number of rounds backed. Those with a profile in the directory link straight to it.
Active investor
YC
14 rounds backed
Active investor
IFC
10 rounds backed
Investor profile
Tiger Global
9 rounds backed
Active investor
Naspers Foundry
7 rounds backed
Investor profile
Quona Capital
6 rounds backed
Active investor
BII
5 rounds backed
Active investor
Partech Africa
5 rounds backed
Active investor
Anthemis
4 rounds backed
The full investor directory
3,677 investor profiles, 3,421 with a disclosed ticket range, across 54 African markets.
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Every one of the 54 countries is clickable, coloured by real reported GDP. Hover for the figures we hold on that market.
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Top economies by GDP
All 54Latest reported World Bank figures.
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South Africa
131 companies
USD 401.1 bn
2024
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2
Egypt
123 companies
USD 389.1 bn
2024
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3
Algeria
31 companies
USD 269.3 bn
2024
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4
Nigeria
311 companies
USD 252.3 bn
2024
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5
Morocco
77 companies
USD 160.6 bn
2024
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6
Ethiopia
14 companies
USD 149.7 bn
2024
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Kenya
181 companies
USD 120.3 bn
2024
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8
Angola
38 companies
USD 101 bn
2024
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