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For Rising Tide Africa, more African women should build diversified investment portfolios

Bright Azuh

1st June 2021
Venture Capital

Future Africa has invested $3m in 13 deals, plotting 87 more for the rest of 2021

Alexander Onukwue

18th May 2021
Venture Capital

New venture capital funds in Egypt to receive $120million from GIZ

Alexander Onukwue

4th May 2021
Ecosystem, Venture Capital

Exclusive: Ahead of visits to Nigeria and Egypt, Y Combinator MD reflects on Africa’s tech boom

Alexander Onukwue

29th April 2021
Venture Capital

Samurai Incubate closes $18 million fund to invest in Africa’s ‘big four’ startup countries

Alexander Onukwue

15th April 2021
Venture Capital

Paymob raises $18.5m in largest Series A for an Egyptian fintech

Alexander Onukwue

8th April 2021
Funding, Venture Capital

Sawari Ventures and Algebra Ventures stake $150m on North African startups

Alexander Onukwue

6th April 2021
Venture Capital

Savannah Fund launches $25m Africa tech seed fund led by the IFC, WeFi

Alexander Onukwue

11th March 2021
Venture Capital

Iyin Aboyeji’s Future Africa returned $3.7m to investors; Now he wants to fund women in tech

Alexander Onukwue

28th January 2021
Business, Startups, Venture Capital

With $25,000 each, FirstCheck is helping African women in tech rise above misrepresentation

Bright Azuh

25th January 2021
Venture Capital

The Trump administration countered Chinese investment in African tech. Will Biden?

Alexander Onukwue

20th January 2021
Venture Capital

With $1million in Q3, Future Africa marches on “mission-driven” seed stage funding

Alexander Onukwue

24th November 2020
Venture Capital

Kenya-based Pariti to manage deal flow for Future Hub, a Transsion-backed investor

Alexander Onukwue

14th October 2020
Venture Capital

Nudges and shoves: Tackling venture capital bias in Africa

Alexander Onukwue

29th July 2020
Venture Capital

Ingressive Capital unveils $10million fund for high-growth tech startups

Alexander Onukwue

24th June 2020
Funding, Venture Capital

Meet Raise, a private equity exchange simplifying the future of fundraising in Africa

Alexander Onukwue

28th May 2020
Venture Capital

With its data analytics platform, Briter Bridges wants to deepen the knowledge infrastructure for African tech

Alexander Onukwue

27th May 2020
Venture Capital

How African Venture Capital firms are preparing for post-pandemic big wins

Alexander Onukwue

30th April 2020
Venture Capital

Emergency cash and dollar hedging: How African investors are preparing portfolio companies for tougher times

Alexander Onukwue

16th April 2020
Venture Capital

Alitheia IDF fund for women-led African enterprises reaches second close at $75 million

Alexander Onukwue

16th April 2020
Venture Capital

How Pariti wants to help African startups afford world-class consultants

Alexander Onukwue

5th March 2020
Venture Capital

How Endeavor Nigeria is trying to help high-impact entrepreneurs scale

Alexander Onukwue

13th February 2020
Venture Capital

Closing at $71m, TLCom TIDE Africa Fund set to invest in mostly infrastructure-type tech startups

Alexander Onukwue

6th February 2020
Venture Capital

Lateral Capital on track to close a $50 million fund for emerging markets

Alexander Onukwue

30th January 2020
Venture Capital

Insight: Iyin Aboyeji’s Future Africa Fund is offering more than money

Alexander Onukwue

22nd January 2020
Business, Funding, Startups, Venture Capital

The CDC Group invests $15 million in TLcom’s Africa Fund

Abubakar Idris

21st January 2020
Venture Capital

Insight: Microtraction’s strategy for investing in ‘remarkable’ startups

Alexander Onukwue

23rd December 2019
Blog, Business, Internet, News, Startups, Venture Capital

Cars45 parent company Frontier Car Group raises $400 million from OLX

Abubakar Idris

12th November 2019
Business, Funding, Jobs, Venture Capital

What does the CEO of a startup in Africa earn?

Alexander Onukwue

21st October 2019
Startups, Venture Capital

Pitchdrive Diary: Pitchdrive Asia Tour Comes to an End

Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

11th September 2019
Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Hardware, Healthcare, Venture Capital

Pitchdrive Diary: Pitching in Japan and chatting in Singapore, how the first week went

Kosisochukwu Ugwuede

31st August 2019
Entrepreneurship, Funding, Venture Capital

Bootstrapping: When should startups seek to raise external funding?

Wole Olayinka

31st July 2019
Funding, Startups, Venture Capital

Berlin startup Ecoligo raises 2.5 million euros to expand solar energy service to light up Africa

Olanrewaju Odunowo

19th July 2019
Business, FinTech, Funding, News, Ridesharing, Startups, Venture Capital

Some of China’s Most Innovative Companies are now Backing Nigeria’s OPay

Abubakar Idris

15th July 2019
Ecosystem, Venture Capital

Offshore HoldCos as Investment Vehicles for Nigerian Startups – Some Considerations for Founders and VCs

Olubunmi Abayomi-Olukunle

21st June 2017
Cabal, Funding, Venture Capital

Pitch perfect: Four things you must do to nail investor meetings

Lexi Novitske

12th May 2016
Cabal, Funding, Startups, Venture Capital

Why building your company, NOT capital raising, is your number one priority

Lexi Novitske

5th May 2016
Cabal, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

What ~~women~~ VCs want

Lexi Novitske

28th April 2016
Cabal, Funding, Startups, Venture Capital

Should you really join an incubator?

Lexi Novitske

21st April 2016
Cabal, Funding, Startups, Venture Capital

Series intro: Startup funding advice series by Lexi Novitske

Bankole Oluwafemi

21st April 2016