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  After investing £1 billion in Africa in 2024, BII’s Africa head explains the sectors driving its biggest bets

  Muktar Oladunmade

  15th December 2025

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  Blockchain, not crypto, is driving Africa’s next wave of venture bets, says CV VC’s Jarryd Kennedy

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  8th December 2025

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  Samuel Frank on entering the VC industry and investing in climate tech

  Muktar Oladunmade

  1st December 2025

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  Adeyemi Adegbayi on how he picks and invests up to $2 million in climate tech startups

  Muktar Oladunmade

  24th November 2025

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  How Wema Bank, a $552 million bank, is investing in startups from all sectors 

  Muktar Oladunmade

  17th November 2025

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  TLcom’s Philippe Griffiths on his firm’s year, founder pitfalls, and the hardest part of VC

  Muktar Oladunmade

  27th October 2025

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  Moonshot 2025: Asia as a limited partner base, Europe for exits and more of what African VCs discussed

  Muktar Oladunmade

  20th October 2025

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  EchoVC ran a $2.5 million climate-tech experiment. Here’s how it went. 

  Muktar Oladunmade

  6th October 2025

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  Lisk’s $15 million fund wants to find Web3 unicorns in emerging markets

  Kenn Abuya

  2nd October 2025

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  ‘Copy-paste does not always work’ and other truths about investing in Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  29th September 2025

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  Nada Shaheen on why large African companies will die if they ignore startups

  Muktar Oladunmade

  22nd September 2025

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  Can a Lagos tech idea work in Abidjan? Mstudio is betting on this

  Muktar Oladunmade

  15th September 2025

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  With $61.6 million fund, Accion Ventures doubles down on early-stage fintechs 

  Muktar Oladunmade

  8th September 2025

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  Kola Aina on AI in Africa, local capital, and exits

  Muktar Oladunmade

  1st September 2025

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  Research and startup support: Here’s how Consonance is differentiating itself  in African VC 

  Muktar Oladunmade

  25th August 2025

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  What do investors mean when they say founders should build for Africa?

  Muktar Oladunmade

  18th August 2025

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  Funding is flowing North, and Enza Capital is paying closer attention

  Muktar Oladunmade

  11th August 2025

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  Correction: ‘Ghana is open for business—if you have guts, insight, and a long-term mindset’ – Amma Gyampo

  Muktar Oladunmade

  4th August 2025

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  Founders ask investors questions about venture capital in Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  21st July 2025

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  Ask an Investor: Africa’s new-crop of investors have a few things to teach the continent

  Muktar Oladunmade

  7th July 2025

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  The Silicon Valley playbook doesn’t work in Africa—Madica is proving why

  Muktar Oladunmade

  30th June 2025

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  The 13.7x blueprint: How Silverbacks’ Africa strategy outperformed global markets

  Muktar Oladunmade

  23rd June 2025

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  Six founders ask investors questions about venture capital and investing

  Muktar Oladunmade

  9th June 2025

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  A guide to cap tables, according to Temidayo Oniosun

  Muktar Oladunmade

  26th May 2025

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  A first-time fund manager is raising ₦100 billion to fund Africa’s data infrastructure gap

  Muktar Oladunmade

  19th May 2025

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  Ask an Investor: Why is local capital important for Africa’s tech ecosystem?

  Muktar Oladunmade

  12th May 2025

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  Fluent Ventures’ Alexandre Lazarow wants to invest in locally adapted globally business models

  Muktar Oladunmade

  5th May 2025

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  Biola Alabi wants angel investors to be patient for returns

  Muktar Oladunmade

  28th April 2025

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  Axel Peyriere’s guide to angel investing in Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  14th April 2025

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  How to convince local HNWIs to invest in African startups, according to Marge Ntambi

  Muktar Oladunmade

  7th April 2025

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  Ask an Investor: The path to exits, the support VCs provide, and Africa’s hottest sectors

  Muktar Oladunmade

  31st March 2025

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  “Most African companies don’t need VC” – Launch Africa’s Uwem Uwemakpan

  Muktar Oladunmade

  24th March 2025

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  After securing exits for its angel network, HoaQ is expanding with a dedicated VC fund

  Muktar Oladunmade

  17th March 2025

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  Capria VC wants to back two more African Series A startups with $1-$3 million each

  Muktar Oladunmade

  10th March 2025

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  With $100,000 per startup, Antler VC enters Nigeria to back startup ideas

  Muktar Oladunmade

  3rd March 2025

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  How Oui Capital made a 53x return on an early $150,000 investment in Moniepoint

  Muktar Oladunmade

  17th February 2025

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  “Success speaks louder than stereotypes”–Norrsken22’s Lexi Novitske and Precious John-Adeyemi on bridging funding gap for female founders

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  14th February 2025

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  “We have a no regret policy”: Climate-focused VC firm Satgana shares investment thesis and big bets on Africa

  Towobola Bambgose

  12th December 2024

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  The first-time fund manager raising $50 million to focus on the deep-end: investing in “the missing middle”

  Muktar Oladunmade

  4th November 2024

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  After learning in Ethiopia, Renew Capital expands across Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  19th August 2024