How African Founders Are Building Profitability Before Funding
For most of the last decade, the standard advice given to African founders was some version of Silicon Valley orthodoxy:…
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Nigerian mental wellness startup SereniMind pairs AI-guided support with access to licensed therapists
A Lagos-based mental wellness platform is betting that artificial intelligence can help close Nigeria’s yawning mental health treatment gap, at…
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Katapult Africa opens fresh accelerator call for climate-tech startups tackling food systems
Katapult Africa has reopened its accelerator programme to early-stage climate-tech ventures, marking at least the third such call the impact…
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AWIEF Opens 2026 Pitch n Grow Competition, Spotlights African Deep-Tech Ventures Led by Wom
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has opened applications for Pitch n Grow 2026, its annual pitch competition…
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African Startup Failure Rates Are Rising, and Founders Are Being Honest About Why
Between January 2023 and June 2025, at least 33 startups across Africa shut down operations, with Nigeria accounting for nearly…
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Why African Startups Are Choosing Dubai Over London for Headquarters
For years, London held a near-automatic appeal for African founders seeking a Western headquarters. It offered proximity to European capital,…
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African AI Startups Worth Watching Right Now
There is a version of Africa’s AI story that gets told mostly in superlatives in a continent leapfrogging, a generation…
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Africa-EU Space Partnership Programme Opens Applications for Earth Observation Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs working on Earth Observation solutions for Africa now have a fresh opportunity to scale their work. The AESPP Business…
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The Compliance Burden That Is Quietly Slowing Africa’s Startups
Building a startup in Africa was never uncomplicated. But the compliance landscape that founders navigate today, particularly in fintech, data,…
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How African Startups Are Leading the Future of Innovation
For years, the dominant narrative around African technology went something like this: a promising but fragile ecosystem, perpetually waiting on…
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SBP Ventures Launches N20 Million Small Business Innovation Challenge for Nigerian SMEs
In a major push to formalize Nigeria’s fragmented business ecosystem, SBP Ventures has officially opened applications for the inaugural Small…
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Applications Open for Cartier Women’s Initiative for Female Entrepreneurs
The Cartier Women’s Initiative has opened applications for its 2027 edition, with women-led businesses across Africa eligible to compete for…
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AfCFTA and Korea Join Forces to Back African Startups in New Acceleration Drive
The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat has opened applications for a new round of its Startup Acceleration and Partnership…
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The African Startup Model: Why Copying Silicon Valley Won’t Work Anymore
For much of the last decade, the ambition was simple: build something that looked like Silicon Valley, just set it…
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UNICEF Femtech Ventures Launches First Cohort, With Six African Startups Among Eleven Selected Globally
Eleven technology startups from Africa and Asia have been selected as the inaugural cohort of UNICEF Femtech Ventures, a five-year…
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Included VC Pilots Africa Investor Fellowship to Close the Continent’s Investment Capability Gap
A new fellowship programme is targeting a persistent but often overlooked problem in Africa’s venture capital landscape: the shortage of…
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Why African Startups Are Rethinking Growth, And Building Better Because of It
The rules have changed. Across Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo, and Dakar, the founders raising money today are not the ones who…
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AUDA-NEPAD Opens Applications for 2026 Accelerator, Expanding Beyond Health Into Climate
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) has opened applications for the 2026 cohort of its Home Grown Solutions Accelerator, with…
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Why African Startups Collapse After Raising Capital, and the Hard Lessons Every Founder Must Learn
In October 2023, Dash, the Ghanaian fintech that had raised over $86 million in five years of operation, announced it was shutting…
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African Startups Have Until Today to Apply for a Spot at Latitude59’s Pitch Competition in Tallinn
Early-stage African startups have a narrow window remaining to apply for the 2026 edition of the Latitude59 pitch competition, one…
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Cascador Opens 2026 ScaleUp Applications for Africa’s Growth-Stage Founders
Cascador, a Lagos-based founder development organisation, is accepting applications for its 2026 ScaleUp programme — a 12-week initiative targeting growth-stage…
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When the Ground Shifts: How Nigerian Startups Are Learning to Survive Economic Turbulence
Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem has, over the past two years, undergone something close to a stress test; one it did…
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Who’s Funding Africa? A Deep Dive into Q1 2026 Startup Investments
The numbers coming out of Africa’s startup ecosystem in the first three months of 2026 tell a story that is…
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FINCA Ventures Opens Applications for Third Annual $100,000 Prize Competition Targeting African Startups
FINCA Ventures, the impact investing arm of FINCA International, is accepting applications for its 2026 Prize Competition — a grant…
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FINCA Ventures Opens Applications for 2026 Prize Competition, Offering African Startups Up to $100,000 in Grant Funding
FINCA Ventures has opened applications for the third edition of its annual Prize Competition, inviting early-stage entrepreneurs from Sub-Saharan Africa…
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When the Money Runs Out: The Startup Layoff Wave and What It Means for African Tech
There is a version of the startup layoff story that gets told in dramatic terms — the sudden announcement, the…
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Mastercard Foundation Opens Applications for 2026 Associates Program Across Africa
Youth unemployment remains one of Africa’s most persistent structural challenges — and one organisation continues putting resources directly behind a…
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Morgan Stanley Opens Impact Startup Accelerator
A funding window relevant to African impact founders closes this month. Morgan Stanley Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures (MSISV) is accepting…
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Moonshots for Development Opens $360,000 Innovation Challenge for African Agritech Startups
A coalition of international development finance institutions has launched a challenge inviting African agritech ventures to compete for funding packages…
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AIIDEV Africa Opens 2026 SDG Mentorship Programme for Emerging African Leaders
AIIDEV Africa has launched applications for its 2026 cohort of the Africa SDGs Mentorship Programme, inviting young professionals across the…
