Issue #44: Jetstream Raises $13 Million Pre-Series A Round, While Karmsolar Secures $3 Million in Debt Financing Deal
We recorded a number of funding deals across the African startup ecosystem since the beginning of the year, with…
Week 2: Funding and Grant Opportunities for African Startups
FemTech Start-up Acceleration Program for Founders or CEOs Building Products and Solutions for Women’s Health…
Fintech accounts for 28.5% of all funding raised across the African Startup ecosystem in H2 2022
Let’s round up the week by going through the funding data from across the African startup landscape in the…
Week 1: Funding and Grant Opportunities for African Startups
HICOOL 2023 Global Entrepreneurship Competition for African Startups HICOOL Global Entrepreneur Summit and…
AU-Startups End of Year Funding Review: H2 2022
Exploring the Venture Capital Investment Landscape for African Startups in Q3 and Q4 2022 The data* from Q3 and…
Issue #43: Suplyd Secures $1.6 Million in Pre-Seed Funding, While Sun King Closes Massive $70 Million Series D Extension Round
Over the past week, several companies in various sectors, including e-commerce, restaurant logistics,…
AU-Startups Founder of the Month: Yusuf Fahmy
Yusuf Fahmy is the founder and CEO of Conix, an Egyptian proptech startup that uses AI to generate designs and…
Issue #42: Kenyan social ecommerce Kapu raises $8M in Seed, while Nigerian vehicle finance startup Moove raises $30M through a sukuk issuance, and more
This week saw a significant increase in funding activity across the continent, with seven deals recorded in the…
Issue #41: Nigerian foodtech Orda raises $3.4M in Seed, while Mauritius-based energy leasing firm Solarise Africa raises $33.4M in debt financing, and others
This week was a little slow for funding in the African startup ecosystem, with only six deals recorded…
Issue #40: Egyptian B2B marketplace Grinta raises $8M in seed funding, while Tanzanian retail-tech Ramani raises $32M in Series A, and more
We saw a lot of venture fund activity this week, with Modus appearing on our radar for the second week in a row,…
Issue #39: Kenyan e-vehicle manufacturer BasiGo raises $6.6M in seed funding, while MENA-focused VC firm Modus launches $75M Africa Fund, and more
This week was relatively slow, with 7 funding deals across the African startup ecosystem, three of which came…
Issue #38: South African healthtech Contro raises $580,000 in pre-Seed funding, while Algerian superapp Yassir raises $150M in Series B funding, and more
This week saw eight funding deals, three of which were pre-seed rounds. This week’s rounds were also…
Issue #37: Egyptian fintech MoneyFellows raises $31 million in Series B funding, Nigerian proptech SmallSmall raises $3 million in seed funding, and more
Welcome to the AU-Startups Weekly Newsletter issue for this week. We’ve been busy this week highlighting…
Nigeria’s Startup Bill and its Implications on the Nigerian Startup Ecosystem
In May last year, the Nigerian presidency launched the Nigeria Startup Bill project, in collaboration with a…
AU-Startups Founder of the Month: Sophia Alj
Sophia Alj is the co-founder and COO of Chari, a B2B e-commerce/fintech startup in Morocco that digitizes the…