Payment gateway solutions provider enabling merchants to accept and manage payments.
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Peach Payments is a South African fintech company that provides online and mobile payment solutions. Their toolkit enables merchants to accept, manage, and make payments via mobile and the web. Peach Payments is expanding into Francophone Africa through the acquisition of PayDunya, a West African payment services provider. This is Peach Payments’ third strategic acquisition since its Series A funding round in late 2023, having previously acquired Exipay and Operativa.
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 avr. 2023 | $31.0M |
It’s just the first week of April and Q2 2025, and the activities were a bit disappointing as only one startup funding was announced throughout the week. Of course, it’s only the first week and there’s no cause for alarm yet. We expect the activities to pick up in the coming weeks. Nevertheless, while startup […]
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Africa’s startup ecosystem is thriving with innovative ideas and entrepreneurial spirit. From fintech and agritech to healthcare and renewable energy, entrepreneurs across the continent are getting due credits for creating tech-enabled solutions to local challenges while driving economic growth. But behind many of these success stories are venture capitalist firms and investors that provide funding, […]
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The implementation of the AfCFTA agreement aims to transform Africa into a consolidated market, providing easy access to trade for over 1.3 billion people across 55 nations on the continent with minimal restrictions. In essence, it hopes to transform Africa into the world’s largest free trade zone. While this accomplishment is undeniably impressive, several technological […]
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Despite the week ending early due to the Easter holiday, we recorded a significant number of funding deals and activities across the African startup ecosystem. South African startups dominated the funding news last week, as two venture capital firms secured investments for their new funds and a partnership was announced between the Ethiopian national payment […]
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The dip in funding activity that we observed last week continued, with less than five disclosed funding deals recorded across the African tech ecosystem this week. However, we witnessed the launch of Flourish Ventures’ Madica, a specialised investment initiative for African pre-seed stage tech startups. Satgana, a climatetech VC firm, also announced the first close […]
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