Venture Capital

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  Venture Capital

  Five35 Ventures raises funding to back female-led and women-focused startups

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  5th December 2025

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  Venture Capital

  A new liquidity index wants to solve African VCs’ biggest data problem

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  18th November 2025

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  Venture Capital

  Nigeria launches ₦50m VC grant to turn student ideas into scalable ventures

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th November 2025

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  Venture Capital

  Uncovered Fund, Monex Ventures partner for $20 million African VC fund

  Muktar Oladunmade

  27th August 2025

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  Delve into AI, Startups, Venture Capital

  What do investors want to see in African AI startups?

  Ifeoluwa Aigbiniode

  14th August 2025

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  Events, Startups, Venture Capital

  Lagos to Tokyo: Global startup lessons from Iyin Aboyeji and Akio Tanaka

  Ngozi Chukwu

  1st August 2025

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  Ecommerce, Venture Capital

  Silverbacks partially exits from OmniRetail with a 5x return in ninth profitable exit

  Ngozi Chukwu

  10th June 2025

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  Venture Capital

  Everything I heard at the AVCA Conference

  Muktar Oladunmade

  10th May 2025

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  African Tech Roundup, Venture Capital

  8 things African VC firms are looking for in a startup

  Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe

  8th May 2025

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  Funding, Venture Capital

  Pros and cons of VC funding in 2025: What founders think

  Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe

  5th May 2025

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  News, Venture Capital

  Lemfi’s $53 million Series B delivers 29x return for Silverbacks Holdings

  Muktar Oladunmade

  2nd May 2025

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  Venture Capital

  What is venture capital & 16 VC firms in Africa funding startups

  Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe

  27th March 2025

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  Acquisitions, Venture Capital

  Exclusive: Baobab Nigeria acquisition delivers 3x return for Alitheia and Goodwell

  Muktar Oladunmade

  21st March 2025

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  Venture Capital

  African investment professionals earn 33% less than global counterparts due to smaller ecosystem

  Muktar Oladunmade

  13th March 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence, Venture Capital

  Flutterwave CEO’s venture studio Resilience17 to invest $200,000 each in selected AI startups

  Faith Omoniyi

  3rd February 2025

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  Venture Capital

  Focus on cash management in 2025, VC firms tell early-stage portfolio startups

  Muktar Oladunmade

  13th January 2025

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  News, Startups, Venture Capital

  YC-backed internet provider Tizeti will become the first Nigerian startup to list on IPO-starved NGX

  Ngozi Chukwu

  13th December 2024

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  Acquisitions, Ecommerce, Venture Capital

  Traction Apps all-stock acquisition adds to string of investor-led deals creating quick wins

  Ngozi Chukwu

  28th October 2024

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  Venture Capital

  US rate cut could revitalise foreign inflows into African startups, increase debt deals

  Muktar Oladunmade

  20th September 2024

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  Features, Venture Capital

  Africa’s climate tech sector needs winners to justify recent funding jump

  Muktar Oladunmade

  18th September 2024

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  Agritech, Venture Capital

  African climate startups see growing interest from VCs

  Adonijah Ndege

  6th September 2024

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  Venture Capital

  Ventures Platform returns capital on 4 out of 6 investment cohorts

  Faith Omoniyi

  29th August 2024

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  Ask An Investor, Venture Capital

  After learning in Ethiopia, Renew Capital expands across Africa

  Muktar Oladunmade

  19th August 2024

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  News, Venture Capital

  Founders Factory Africa rebrands to 54 Collective, a sector-agnostic VC firm

  Frank Eleanya

  7th August 2024

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  Funding, Venture Capital

  Paris-based Breega is the latest European VC to close an Africa-focused fund

  Ngozi Chukwu

  20th June 2024

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  Events, News, Venture Capital

  African innovation thriving despite scarce representation at London Tech Week

  Kelechi Njoku

  13th June 2024

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  East Africa, Kenya, News, Venture Capital

  Copia Global seeks fresh funding after this week’s layoffs

  Adonijah Ndege

  7th June 2024

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  Venture Capital

  Techstars Maelle Gavet steps down as CEO; David Cohen returns to lead the company

  Towobola Bambgose

  23rd May 2024

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  Funding, News, Venture Capital

  TLcom Capital closes $154 million fund for early-stage African startups

  Frank Eleanya

  21st April 2024

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  Ask An Investor, Venture Capital, Weekend Features

  Partech, its $300 million fund, backing bold founders, and being intentional about exits

  Ngozi Chukwu

  20th April 2024

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  Funding, Startups, Venture Capital

  Kenyan EV startup Roam secures $24m to scale production

  Frank Eleanya

  14th February 2024

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Trading second-hand shares in African startups does not make money anymore. That’s good?

  Abraham Augustine

  22nd January 2024

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  Venture Capital

  Exclusive: How Timbuktoo, the UNDP-backed $1bn innovation fund will work

  Abraham Augustine

  18th January 2024

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  Venture Capital

  Venture Capital in Africa: Investment trends and forecasts

  Guest Author

  20th December 2023

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  Venture Capital

  EchoVC has a $2.5m fund and it’s not for fintech startups

  Abraham Augustine

  28th November 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Venture capital is undergoing a reset but no one is changing

  Abraham Augustine

  27th November 2023

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  Business, Venture Capital

  An inside look at how interest rates are pressuring VCs and stifling innovation

  Guest Author

  22nd November 2023

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  Newsletters, The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: The obsession over unicorns or camels is weird

  Abraham Augustine

  20th November 2023

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  Venture Capital

  Norrsken22 raises $205 million to back high-growth companies in Africa

  Abraham Augustine

  3rd November 2023

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  The Next Wave, Venture Capital

  Next Wave: Rewriting the venture capital “theory-of-everything”

  Abraham Augustine

  23rd October 2023