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Ampersand
Develops electric vehicles and fueling solutions, including electric bikes and battery swap stations.
UndisclosedSep 2024RW
Lapaire
UndisclosedJan 2024
Zanifu
Zanifu provides inventory financing to micro, small, and medium-sized businesses in Kenya.
Pre-seedAug 2023KE
Kasha
E-commerce platform focused on women's health and personal care products in Africa.
Series BJul 2023RW
XENO
XENO builds tools to help individuals and institutions plan, save, and invest.
SeedJun 2022UG
Carepoint
African healthtech startup democratizing access to quality healthcare.
BridgeMay 2022
Last week’s funding activities in the African ecosystem featured three companies securing equity and four obtaining grants from ANDE and IKEA. Sukhiba raised a $1.5 Million seed extension, bringing its total seed funding to $3 Million. Similarly, the logistics and EV start-up Ampersand also secured $2 Million, while Arise invested $7.5 Million in Omnisient. Funding […]
AU Startups·9/3/2024
What a way to start the new year! Only two weeks into 2024 and we have already witnessed several interesting startup funding deals in the African Ecosystem. While the details of many of these investments aren’t public information yet, it’s interesting to know that we are off to a great start in the African startup […]
AU Startups·1/15/2024
The African startup ecosystem had a calmer pace of events last week as we only recorded five funding deals, two of whose details are not yet public information. The three other deals featured Revio raising $5.2 Million in Seed funding, Root also secured an additional $1.5 Million from Invenfin while SunCulture got a Debt financing […]
AU Startups·10/2/2023
Last week saw a calm pace of events in the African Startup Ecosystem but most Funders and founders decided to stay tight-lipped on the details of their deals. 3 of the 5 funding rounds featured undisclosed amounts. However, the two other deals were quite impressive. Lemfi had a successful Series A round, securing $ 33 […]
AU Startups·8/28/2023
Last week was eventful, with ten funding deals announced, covering pre-seed rounds and multiple debt financing deals. Notably, two East African cleantech companies secured a combined $27.5 million in debt funding, with Rwandan female-focused ecommerce platform, Kasha’s $21 million Series being the most significant deal of the week. Funding Cayesh Funding round: Prize ($50,000) Investors: […]
AU Startups·7/24/2023
In today’s episode of Africa’s Weekly Funding Review, we recorded some fundraising and acquisition announcements that we found this week in the African startup ecosystem. If you missed it, here are the highlights: Fundraising Fido, a Ghana-based fintech building a neobank to deliver credit and other financial services for the unbanked in Sub-Saharan […]
AU Startups·6/24/2022
100 Ventures
100 Ventures is an Egyptian venture capital firm that participated in a seed round for Glamera, an Egypt-born SaaS startup providing B2B services to beauty and lifestyle service providers and a B2C marketplace for consumers to find and book sessions with such providers. The funding will be used to continue developing and launching new services, as well as expanding into additional GCC markets.
1984 Ventures
1984 Ventures invests in early-stage startups, as evidenced by their participation in pre-seed and seed rounds. They co-invested in Sylndr's $12M pre-seed round. The firm appears to be sector-agnostic, with investments spanning e-commerce, automotive marketplaces, and other industries within the African tech ecosystem.
212
212 invests in companies like Flow48, a fintech company that leverages AI-powered data analytics and risk assessment to provide alternative financing solutions for SMEs across emerging markets. Through its platform, the company offers revenue-based financing and embedded finance solutions, allowing businesses to access capital without diluting ownership.
212Founders programme
212Founders is an accelerator program that invests in early-stage startups. They provide resources and mentorship to help startups grow and scale their businesses. They invested in Crealo, a copyright management solution for cultural and creative institutions.
